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Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. -- Lindsey Graham
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive. -- Robin Cook
In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities. -- Bob Graham
Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq. -- Jack Keane
Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks. -- John Yoo
Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
In October 2008, American commandos launched a cross-border raid into Syria to capture an Islamic militant known as Abu Ghadiya. He was accused of being one of al Qaeda in Iraq's main smugglers of fighters and money between Iraq and Syria. -- Richard Engel
I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. -- Bill Nelson
A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion. -- Kurt Eichenwald
The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home. -- Elliott Abrams
On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address. -- Richard Engel
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. -- Barack Obama
There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq. -- George Clooney
Stategy in Iraq- defeat al-Qaeda; limit Iran's influence. -- John McCain
Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda. -- John McCain
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely. -- Christopher Hitchens
Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together -- Colin Powell
The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq. -- Ed Royce
It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq. -- Peter DeFazio
There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. -- Barack Obama
The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda. -- George W. Bush
As you know, there are Al-Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq. -- John McCain
It's important to understand the origins of ISIS were in the chaos of Iraq and Libya, and the origins of Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan. -- Jill Stein
A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 "? al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it "¦ The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin. -- Michael Hastings

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