NY Times
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print&position=top> \ufffd(June 16, 2002): 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...
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"Al Qaeda at its core was really a small group, even though thousands of
people went through their camps," one official said of the bin Laden
training camps in Afghanistan. "What we're seeing now is a radical
international jihad that will be a potent force for many years to
come..."
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One official said this about the remaining goal: "It's body bags. That's
all that matters to them now."

Until 3 months before the next (S)election.