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"However difficult the fight in Iraq has become, we must win it," Mr. Bush said during a commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. "Al Qaeda is public enemy No. 1 for Iraq's young democracy. Al Qaeda is public enemy No. 1 for America as well." <ref>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070523-115137-6054r.htm</ref>
"However difficult the fight in Iraq has become, we must win it," Mr. Bush said during a commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. "Al Qaeda is public enemy No. 1 for Iraq's young democracy. Al Qaeda is public enemy No. 1 for America as well." <ref>http://www.washtimes.com/national/20070523-115137-6054r.htm</ref>
==Decline?==
By late 2009 analysts were detecting a systematic decline in the strength and appeal of Al Qaeda. Its leadership has been forced to retreat to remote mountain villages in Pakistan, and many leaders have been killed by missiles and manhunts. Its tactics of killing innocent civilians have lost favor with the Muslim population in most countries. Between 2002 and 2009 the notion that suicide bombings are "often or sometimes justified" has plunged across the Islamic world. Its terrorists launched 10 major attacks worldwide in 2004, its peak year, but only three in 2008. "Al Qaeda is in the process of imploding," concludes professor Audrey Kurth Cronin of the National War COllege in Washington. In September 2009 American-led forces killed the leader of the Somali organization "Al Shabab", which is allied with Al Qaeda; the police in Indonesia killed the most wanted terrorist in Southeast Asia. It has become much harder for terroristrs to move agents, money and supplies. <ref> Scott Shane, "Rethinking What to Fear," ''New York Times'' Sept. 27, 2009</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==