***** ...Classified investigations of the Qaeda threat now under way at the F.B.I. and C.I.A. have concluded that the war in Afghanistan failed to diminish the threat to the United States, the officials said. Instead, the war might have complicated counterterrorism efforts by dispersing potential attackers across a wider geographic area....
(David Johnston, Don Van Natta Jr. and Judith Miller, "Qaeda's New Links Increase Threats From Global Sites," NYT 16 June 2002, <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/international/16QAED.html>.) *****
Nothing succeeds like failure, though, in the Wars on Drugs, Crimes, & Terrorism. -- Yoshie
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