Holbrooke: Al-Qaida has ‘blown it’

From Newsmax.com:

Al-Qaeda has “blown it”  through its excessive brutality, and is now is under “fantastic pressure” because of the loss of key leaders, US envoy Richard Holbrooke said Sunday.

Holbrooke said the organization that masterminded the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States now was less an organization that plans attacks than one that seeks to inspire Muslims to jihad.

… he said Al-Qaeda’s excessive brutality had diminished their ideological appeal…

He said the Pakistanis have moved over 100,000 troops from their eastern border with India to the western border areas that the Taliban has long used as a safe haven…

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