U.S. soldiers board a CH 47 Chinook helicopter during an advisory mission to former Forward Operating Base Shinwar in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, July 14, 2013. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Vang Seng Thao
U.S. General Says al Qaeda Just Surviving In Afghanistan -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Pockets of al Qaeda militants will endure in Afghanistan beyond next year's departure of most Western combat forces, but they have lost the ability to mount serious attacks of the kind that triggered the Afghan war, a senior U.S. commander said.
Major-General Joseph Osterman, the deputy operations chief of Afghanistan's NATO-led force, said small numbers of al Qaeda fighters remained entrenched in the rugged eastern mountain province of Nuristan, where the forested terrain and plunging valleys provided natural havens.
"They are less than 100, I would say, and they are in fact just trying to survive at this point," Osterman told Reuters in an interview late on Thursday. "I think what you find is that it's not necessarily that they have got a springboard in there."
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