WikiLeaks: Al-Qaeda network a failure
Onlineredaktion - A secret Australian intelligence assessment has declared the al-Qaeda terrorist network a failure, according to a US embassy cable leaked to WikiLeaks.
The assessment also claimed the regional offshoot, Jemaah Islamiah, has been broken in Australia, Fairfax newspapers reported.
The head of Australia's intelligence analysis agency, the Office of National Assessments, told US diplomats in October 2008 that al-Qaeda 'ultimately has failed to achieve the strategic leadership role it sought within the Islamic world'.
The assessment undercuts a key argument of the federal government to justify Australia's commitment to the war in Afghanistan, that al-Qaeda could return to use the country as a terrorist training ground, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Australian intelligence officers instead blamed Taliban success in Afghanistan on the failings of the Afghan government and the involvement of Pakistan's intelligence and security agencies.
The assessment also claimed the regional offshoot, Jemaah Islamiah, has been broken in Australia, Fairfax newspapers reported.
The head of Australia's intelligence analysis agency, the Office of National Assessments, told US diplomats in October 2008 that al-Qaeda 'ultimately has failed to achieve the strategic leadership role it sought within the Islamic world'.
The assessment undercuts a key argument of the federal government to justify Australia's commitment to the war in Afghanistan, that al-Qaeda could return to use the country as a terrorist training ground, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Australian intelligence officers instead blamed Taliban success in Afghanistan on the failings of the Afghan government and the involvement of Pakistan's intelligence and security agencies.
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