Powerline replays Austin Bay’s post of a captured 2002 al Qaeda letter from the West Point collection - easier to read than Austin’s post, which has some formatting problems.
This one is dated June 2002; it is a window into the state of affairs as viewed inside al Qaeda six months after the fall of the Taliban. Note especially the statement that the “East Asia, Europe, America, Horn of Africa, Yemen, Gulf and Morocco groups have fallen, and Pakistan has almost been drowned in one push.”
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It seems obvious to me that we have won huge, but unreported, victories over al Qaeda during the past four years, and that this is a large part of the reason why there have been no successful attacks inside the United States. Someday, no doubt, the story will be told. I suspect that when that happens, a lot of the administration’s unrelenting critics will feel rather silly.
Very interesting.
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