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Al Qaeda controls more territory than ever in Middle East
CNN ^ | Jan 7, 2014 | Peter Bergen

Posted on 01/09/2014 12:07:20 AM PST by Innovative

Indeed, al Qaeda appears to control more territory in the Arab world than it has done at any time in its history.

The focus of al Qaeda's leaders has always been regime change in the Arab world in order to install Taliban-style regimes. Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri acknowledged as much in his 2001 autobiography

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bushandobamasfault; middleeast; obamalies; terrorism; threatmatrix
Thank you, President Obama, we couldn't have done it without your help -- so glad you declared the War on Terror over!

-- signed

Ayman al-Zawahiri

1 posted on 01/09/2014 12:07:21 AM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Islam needs to be smashed for 40 years to eliminate 2 generations to clear the way for 100 years of peace.


2 posted on 01/09/2014 12:24:23 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Innovative

Read an article recently where it stated the right wanted intervention in Syria. I almost puked. Who besides Obumbler didn’t know this was the outcome?


3 posted on 01/09/2014 12:25:33 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Innovative
Al Qaeda is on the run.

Al Qaeda is on its heels.

Al Qaeda has been decimated.

0bama lies.

4 posted on 01/09/2014 12:29:49 AM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Innovative

Nah; that was the “Overseas Contingency Operation”, remember?

Now al-Qa’eda gets to cause all the “man-caused disasters” they please, within and without the territory they now control.


5 posted on 01/09/2014 12:31:34 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: TigersEye

Well, that first one is either true or false depending on the direction they were running in. The POTUS refused to specify.


6 posted on 01/09/2014 12:32:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I guess if we’re to be fair to the ice cream scooper that’s right. lol


7 posted on 01/09/2014 12:33:48 AM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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On the run!

8 posted on 01/09/2014 12:36:19 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: TigersEye

Yup.


9 posted on 01/09/2014 12:37:23 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Innovative
PS: I don't forget the democrat party and you quisling Republicams like McCain and Graham. mooHAMmed thanks u (May Pigs Be Upon Him)

Yours truly,

AAZ

10 posted on 01/09/2014 12:51:53 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Innovative
NO NO NO
The hero to the uninformed said Al Qaeda was on the run.
I think he was right this time. They were running to take over.
WAY TO GO MR ZERO. . . . . .
11 posted on 01/09/2014 12:53:51 AM PST by DeaconRed (GOD: Please send us one more Ronald Reagan. Soon. Thanks Da Deacon.)
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To: Innovative

Bin laden is dead and Al Quaeda is on the run....oops not so much!!!

I hope some future Republican presidential candidate highlights this democrat military failure.


12 posted on 01/09/2014 2:22:15 AM PST by RginTN
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What was it exactly that we gained by fighting in the Middle East for the past 15 years? Is America any better off or do we just consider the wounded and dead troops as a cost of doing war business? Have we as citizens gained a damn thing from all of this?


13 posted on 01/09/2014 9:39:45 AM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: B4Ranch

The problem isn’t the wars its the strategy, the rules of engagement. We didn’t restrain the military in the Civil War, WW1 or WW2 which is why we won them.


14 posted on 01/09/2014 1:12:11 PM PST by RginTN
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