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January 20, 2010

Has al-Qaeda Won the War on Terror?

Marwan Bishara, Huffington Post

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What does it say about Washington's ''War on Terror'' that a dozen and a half people with paper cutters forced hundreds of thousands of Western troops into the battlefields of the "greater Middle East" region?

That 100,000 foreign soldiers are bugged down in occupied Afghanistan and held hostage by the wrath of Taliban, wondering how many dozens of al-Qaeda operatives have remained, if any?

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TAGGED: United States, Iraq, Taliban, Afghanistan, Terrorism, al Qaeda, 9/11

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