Only 100 al-Qaeda Now in Afghanistan
RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS
ABC News
December 3, 2009
Editor’s note: That turns out to be one thousand U.S. soldiers and $300 million for every supposed al-Qaeda fighter in the country
As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al Qaeda “cancer” in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al Qaeda fighters in the entire country.
