Now that the election is over, Obama is warmly (and I mean WARMLY) ensconced in the Oval Office and the only thing that the DNC media is talking about are the various “stimuli” packages (and also a few tax cheat stories here and there), good news about the war on Terror in general and al-qaeda in particular can now come to light.

AllahPundit at HotAir.com reports on the devastation of al-qaeda’s leadership. It seems that every week, they are losing leader types faster than Daschle throwing a 1040 form into the shredder.

From NPR:

The officials say the terrorist network’s leadership cadre has been “decimated,” with up to a dozen senior and midlevel operatives killed as a result of the strikes and the remaining leaders reeling from the repeated attacks.

“The enemy is really, really struggling,” says one senior U.S. counterterrorism official. “These attacks have produced the broadest, deepest and most rapid reduction in al-Qaida senior leadership that we’ve seen in several years.”…

“In the past, you could take out the No. 3 al-Qaida leader, and No. 4 just moved up to take his place,” says one official. “Well, if you take out No. 3, No. 4 and then 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, it suddenly becomes a lot more difficult to revive the leadership cadre.”

As AllahPundit notes:

It ain’t all good news — 100 operatives who trained at the camps are thought to be on the loose and the Taliban keeps forcing the U.S. to lower expectations in Afghanistan — but it’s a big deal. See my update to Ed’s post on the airstrike that took out the embassy bombers last month for a round-up of America’s latest, greatest hits. The pace is remarkably consistent: Every two months or so for fully a year now, one of the AQ illuminati has gotten a ticket to meet Allah. Something profound’s happened to our intel capabilities over there but I can only marvel at what it might be. More informants, sure, but how many and how close are they to the top? The more big fish we kill, the more paranoid AQ must be, yet somehow they still haven’t caught whoever it is that’s ratting them out

And what has been Obama’s response to all of this? Well, judging by a) his Iran-Gate like behavior during the campaign and b) his Full Court Surrender Press towards Iran since he took office, it is the opposite of what it should be.

From Frank Gaffney’s column in The Washington Times:

c According to GeostrategyDirect.com, a newsletter published by The Washington Times’ ace national security reporter Bill Gertz, “Diplomatic sources said Barack Obama has engaged several Arab intermediaries to relay messages to and from al Qaeda in the months before his elections as the 44th U.S. president. The sources said al Qaeda has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. ‘For the last few months, Obama has been receiving and sending feelers to those close to al Qaeda on whether the group would end its terrorist campaign against the United States,’ a diplomatic source said. ‘Obama sees this as helpful to his plans to essentially withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq during his first term in office.’ “

Now that Gertz is on the story, that makes it a lot more plausible than the vague rumors of this that have been floating around the last few weeks.

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