NATO Announces Killing One Member of Al-Qaeda, James Jones Admits that Al-Qaeda Members in Afghanistan Less than 100 !!!

NATO Announces Killing One Member of Al-Qaeda, James Jones Admits that Al-Qaeda Members in Afghanistan Less than 100 !!!

Editor's Note:

If there are only less than 100 members of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, is it worth for the US to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to occupy the country with hundreds of thousands of soldiers?

Apparently, fighting the non-existent Al-Qaeda mirage organization is not the goal!

NATO says al-Qaida operative killed in Afghanistan

AP, Mon Aug 16, 2010, 12:28 pm ET

KABUL, Afghanistan –

An al-Qaida operative has been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday.

The military coalition had said previously that it killed two insurgents with Sunday's strike on a pickup truck fleeing the site of a gunfight with police in northern Kunduz province.

NATO identified one of the dead Monday as Abu Baqir, a Taliban sub-commander and al-Qaida group leader. There were reports that he was housing four potential suicide bombers for upcoming attacks on the city of Kunduz, NATO said in a statement.

U.S. officials have said that there are a small number of al-Qaida operatives in Afghanistan.

In October 2009, national security adviser James Jones said there were fewer than 100 fighters operating in the country and said they had no bases in Afghanistan or ability to launch attacks on the West.

In eastern Afghanistan, an unmanned aerial vehicle crashed Monday and was immediately recovered by NATO forces.

NATO said the cause of Monday's crash in Khas Kunar district of Kunar province is under investigation.

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