If this is the situation then what about the much touted NATO defeating AQ in Afghanistan? What is the 10 year report card of NATO in Afghanistan? Al-Qaeda ‘plotting another 9/11’ from Afghanistan - Telegraph
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Ryan Crocker told The Daily Telegraph that if the West was to leave Afghanistan too early, al-Qaeda would be able to increase its presence.
With the US preparing to withdraw the majority of its combat forces from Afghanistan next year, Mr Crocker warned: “If we decide we’re tired, they’ll be back.
“Al-Qaeda is still present in Afghanistan. If the West decides that 10 years in Afghanistan is too long then they will be back, and the next time it will not be New York or Washington, it will be another big Western city.”
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Mr Crocker, 62, who previously served as ambassador to Iraq, said that while progress had been made, Afghanistan would need Western support for years to come.
Nato officials believe that up to 100 al-Qaeda fighters have returned to the country, based mainly in the Kunar and Nuristan provinces near the border with Pakistan. Hundreds more are based in Pakistan and could return if circumstances were to change.
Following the shootings in Toulouse this month by an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman, British intelligence officials believe the group is planning a wave of attacks against Western targets, including the London Olympics.
**Mr Crocker, who took up his post in Kabul last year, said al-Qaeda remained a potent threat despite suffering setbacks. “We have killed all the slow and stupid ones. But that means the ones that are left are totally dedicated,” he said.
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**“We think we’ve won a campaign before our adversaries have even started to fight. They have patience, and they know that we are short on that.”
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Re: Al-Qaeda 'plotting another 9/11’ from Afghanistan
**Most likely you westerns might have sucked all life out of Afghanistan by then :
**Afghanistan has significant deposits of copper, iron ore, niobium, cobalt, gold, molybdenum, silver and aluminum as well as sources of fluorspar, beryllium and lithium, among others, a task force studying the country’s resources found.
****“It’s certainly potentially good news, especially for Afghanistan,” said Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan. “If we can assist the Afghans in developing these resources, it certainly has the potential for adding a lot to their economy.”
****Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Paul Brinkley, who headed the task force, said the findings showed Afghanistan a path “toward its own economically sovereign capability to finance its own human and security needs.”
****Experts cautioned the challenge to exploiting Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was huge and could take decades to overcome. The country has little mining infrastructure, is in the midst of a wrenching war and has a reputation for government corruption.
******Mineral wealth in Afghanistan is scattered throughout the country, including along the border with Pakistan, where the Taliban-led insurgency is the most intense.
War on terror is actually war of sucking last drop of wealth out of third world countries…this is continuation of NEW WORLD ORDER.
Re: Al-Qaeda 'plotting another 9/11’ from Afghanistan
^ Strategic location (cross roads of Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Russia and China), mineral wealth and future oil and gas pipelines, all of this combined.
Re: Al-Qaeda 'plotting another 9/11’ from Afghanistan
oh please stop fooling people!! ... just to divert the attention from their miserble performance in Afghanistan!
I personally think after losing thousands of troops, killing far more Afghans, spending trillions of dollars it would be the failure of NATO if still they are feeling threatened from the scourge which they ought to have defeated in 10 years.
Re: Al-Qaeda 'plotting another 9/11’ from Afghanistan
I personally think after losing thousands of troops, killing far more Afghans, spending trillions of dollars it would be the failure of NATO if still they are feeling threatened from the scourge which they ought to have defeated in 10 years.
But how can you defeat something that don't exist!!!