Was Killing Of Al-Qaida No. 2 A Huge Blow To Terror Group

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White House Counterterror Chief Says Killing Of al-Qaida No. 2 Was Huge Blow To Terror Group -- Washington Post/AP

WASHINGTON — White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan says al-Qaida is on a “on a steady slide” after the death of al-Qaida’s latest second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, in Pakistan.



Brennan told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it’s a “huge blow” in the first official White House comment since Rahman’s reported killing by CIA drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas last week.



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My Comment: I have doubts that this is the case. Al Qaeda sympathizers number in the hundreds of thousands .... if not millions. Killing one, two, ten, hundred .... there are more who would want to take the place of those that we kill.

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