"The Truth Is There Is No Al Qaeda"
Yemen's Drive on Al Qaeda Faces Internal Skepticism
By MONA EL-NAGGAR and ROBERT F. WORTH
The Yemeni government has used jihadists as proxy soldiers in the past, and sometimes conflates the Qaeda threat and the unrelated political insurgencies it has fought in northern and southern Yemen in recent years. Ref. Source 5
At least 6 top Qaeda leaders in Pakistan: US lawmaker:
"Of the 20 senior leaders in al-Qaeda, at least a dozen of them, we believe to be travelling around Pakistan someplace," Congressman Mike Rogers, chairman of the powerful House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told reporters at a news conference. Ref. Source 7
Confirmed
Al Qaeda released a statement on jihadist forums confirming the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant messages. CNN could not immediately confirm the statement. Ref. CNN