McChrystal says Osama must be killed to ensure al-Qaeda defeat
December 9th, 2009 - 3:17 pm ICT by ANIWashington, Dec.9 (ANI): The top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McCrystal has said that Osama bin Laden must be captured or killed if al-Qaeda is ever going to be defeated.
“I don’t think that we can finally defeat al Qaeda until he’s captured or killed,” The Telegraph quoted Gen. McChrystal, as telling a Senate committee.
At the same time, he cautioned that killing or capturing the Saudi-born leader of the group that mounted the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States would not by itself dismantle al-Qaeda.
McChrystal said bin Laden’s very existence fanned extremism globally.
“I believe he is an iconic figure at this point, whose — whose survival emboldens al-Qaeda as a franchising organization across the world,” he said. (ANI)
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