Al Qaeda On the Run

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Last month an audio recording appeared on militant Web sites in which Ayman al-Zawahiri, the group's main ideologue, warned the president-elect against pursuing military actions in Muslim countries. While the tape was supposedly about Obama, it was actually much more revealing about the current state of Al Qaeda. Above all, it revealed how defensive the group has become. [snip]

By attempting to move the epicenter of jihad eastward after its failure to establish an Islamic state in Iraq, and by trying to bring India into the battle, the extremists are challenging Obama's goal of stamping out terror along the Afghan border and in Pakistan's tribal zones. But the power of Al Qaeda and LeT will be seriously diminished if the United States continues to pursue them militarily in the tribal zones.

The terrorists have now shown—twice—that they are desperate. The coming months may represent the final lap in the race against them. So the stakes could not be higher as Obama begins his presidency.

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