Al-Qaida At Its Weakest?

[krashkart]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100627/...us_afghanistan

WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that al-Qaida is probably at its weakest since the Sept. 11 attacks because of U.S.-led strikes, with only 50 to 100 militants operating inside Afghanistan and the rest hiding along Pakistan's mountainous western border.
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"We are engaged in the most aggressive operations in the history of the CIA in that part of the world, and the result is that we are disrupting their leadership," Panetta told ABC's "This Week."

I'm not sure whether to believe it. When this kind of good news comes along I usually get a sense that something isn't going right.