9/11 perpetrators no longer threat to US: Marie Harf
- October 9, 2013, 6:14 pm
- World News
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WASHINGTON Oct 9 (Online): US said that the two dozens of Al Qaeda leaders, the perpetrators of 9/11 in Pakistan and Afghanistan were no longer threat to America, adding that Al Qaeda existing leadership was weak and different from the earlier one.
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf in her routine press briefing said that the two dozens of Al Qaeda militants involved in the September 11, 2001 attack on US were no longer threat for us although Ayman Al Zawahiri was still left.
She said that Al Qaeda’s central leadership has weakened and almost melted away, it was no more the Al Qaeda of 9/11 instead constituted of newcomers not that dangerous and different from the previous one.
Al Qaeda militants were now scattered into Yemen, Somalia and North Africa and the US was keeping the pressure on them.
