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Originally posted by JuanHunt:
You just have to put on your happy face. al-qaeda is a tiny organization, and we have killed less than 1000 verifiable members since 2001. And just For Ronnie P to Google:
Two years ago, I interviewed Jack Cloonan, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who, between 1996 and 2002, served on a joint CIA–FBI task force that tracked bin Laden. “How many members of Al Qaeda do you think there are?” he asked me. Cloonan laughed when I pegged its membership at several thousand. The real numbers, he said, “are miniscule.”
Documents discovered by the joint task force, Cloonan said, showed that Al Qaeda had 72 members when it was founded in 1989. Twelve years later, the task force got its hands on an updated membership list after a CIA Predator destroyed a building near Kabul during the American invasion of Afghanistan. The membership list was discovered in the rubble, along with dozens of casualties, including Mohammed Atef, one of bin Laden's closest aides. It showed that bin Laden had a grand total of precisely 198 sworn loyalists. (Hirsh's Newsweek article said that the intelligence community “generally agrees that the number of true A-list Al Qaeda operatives” at the time of 9/11 probably between 500 and 1,000, most of them in and around Afghanistan.)
We have been fighting a war that we cannot win, as the enemy will never surrender nor cease to be a threat. We have lost 3000 + 4500 + untold others in the future in Astan and elsewhere on a War that is really just a police action.
Unless Juan is an ex-FBI agent named Ken Silverstein, the above is another example of his plagiarism.
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