While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Leon E. Panetta, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, admits to Jake Tapper, substitute host of the American Broadcasting Company’s interview program This Week, that the al-Qaida (Arabic for “the Base”) international terrorist network has less than one-hundred guerilla fighters in Afghanistan.

       [added 3/27/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

7/25/2010                   10/31/2010

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

CIA Director Panetta: ‘There May Be Less Than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan’
www.mediaite.com/tv/cia-director-panetta-there-may-be-less-than-100-al-qaeda-in-afghanistan/

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