Despite ginsuing the leading of the terrorist group using a multibladed Hellfire missile in the country last month, the United States military has concluded the terrorist group al Qaeda has not reestablished its network in Afghanistan and is limited in its ability to conduct complex international attacks, the New York Times reports.
That does not mean that the group cannot support attacks done by local cells in foreign countries, according to the assessment by the US national security community, but the scope and effectiveness of such attacks will be far less than the attacks its undertaken in the past.
The assessment also notes that since the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, only a few score al Qaeda fighters remain in Afghanistan, and they are not organized as a fighting force that could take on the ruling Taliban leaders.