Al Qaeda Weaker But Far From Done, Say Top U.S. Intelligence Officials



... the terrorists are nowhere near giving up.

In his first week on the job, CIA director David Petraeus told members of Congress that al-Qaida's recent losses of Osama bin Laden and others have opened "an important window of vulnerability."

( iow, we'll do every thing we can to keep that window from shutting)

Petraeus predicted that al-Qaida leaders may even flee to Afghanistan or leave South Asia altogether to escape the CIA, which has quadrupled covert drone strikes against al-Qaida under the Obama administration. He testified at a joint congressional intelligence committee hearing.

Petraeus and the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, both said that al-Qaida's Yemeni offshoots and others are growing more daring and dangerous – a sentiment shared by lawmakers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_960054.html