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80% of al-Qaeda in Iraq disrupted
The U.S. military has determined that 80 percent of the Al Qaida network has been captured or killed.Officials said the breakthrough against Al Qaida took place over the last four months. They said a series of strikes in northern and western Iraq have eliminated senior Al Qaida commanders as well as disrupted the flow of insurgents and weapons from neighboring Syria. Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, deputy commanding general of Multinational Force-Northwest in Iraq, told a Defense Department teleconference on Sept. 23 that U.S. and Iraqi troops have disrupted about 80 percent of Al Qaida's network. Bergner, an army officer, based his assessment on the detention and killing of the leadership as well as the disruption of the group's resources. "Eighty percent of the network has been affected by our operations, and when I say affected I mean in terms of either disrupting the flow of resources to them, disrupting the flow of people that participate in those terrorist acts, disrupting the leadership, and so forth," Bergner said. "Now the challenge is, you've got to keep them from reconstituting and continue to keep that pressure on." Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-09-26 |
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