| Nice, if true, and it may well be. The process seems to be underway now. |
Al Qaeda will begin to disintegrate within two years as its various factions start to squabble and militants return to their local roots, a senior parliamentary adviser has predicted.
| I'll start laying in popcorn against the day they start cutting off each other's heads. |
Professor Michael Clarke, a specialist adviser to lawmakers on the House of Commons defence committee, said the consequence would be that the security services would be able to win the "war on terror" as the group's structure fell apart. "I think (cracks) are going to start to appear in the next 12 months to two years," he told Reuters at a security conference in London on Wednesday. "It's going to start to fragment and split up," he said.
| Unfortunately, we're still waiting for the first squabble... |
Clarke said he envisaged the network breaking down into smaller, disparate cells which would be more easily infiltrated and dealt with, bringing an end to the group's ability to carry out major attacks along the lines of the September 11 attacks "Terrorism will go back to being about more local issues. It will be reduced to a level which people can live with," he said.
| ... at least until somebody cuts their heads off... |
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