Scott Stewart, Market Watch: Islamic State has made al Qaeda largely irrelevant
WNU Editor: I have to concur Scott Stewart's assessment .... the Islamic State has made al Qaeda largely irrelevant. Not surprising .... the intelligence and defense community are also now shifting their focus to the Islamic State, and while drone attacks and strikes will probably continue on Al Qaeda targets in Pakistan and Yemen .... all eyes and resources are now focused on the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
2 comments:
AQ always was 90% terrorist, 10% Shocktroops.
During the Iraq War the ration remained the same.
When portions of AQI wandered out into the "desert", of Syria, with sponsors, arms, training and some key foreign Jihadists, and space to train,
They returned as 90% Shock troops/Light Infantry and 10% terrorists,
That attracts a lot more western media attention than mere terrorists.
Notice how Afghanistan is out of the news, now that the US has said the war is over, even though it's not?
The mother of one young
soldier told my wife that
her boy is starting another
deployment in Afghanistan.
She said with tears, "I
thought the war was over."
Nope, not when the enemy
still holds the field.
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