Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) Ahakoa kei te aro nui te ao ki te pakanga ki a ISIS i Hiria me Iraki, he huringa kotahi kei te iti ake te aro: te whakaheke o al Qaeda. I roto i tētahi karere ororongo i tukuna i te Rātapu, i whakapumautia e al Qaeda e rua o ōna kaiārahi, e mōhiotia ana ko Ustad Ahmad Farooq rāua ko Qari Abdullah Mansur, i patua i ngā whakaeke rererangi a CIA i te marama o Hānuere i Waziristan ki te Raki, tata ki te rohe o Afghanistan-Pakistan. Ko te ingoa tūturu o Farooq ko Raja Mohammad Suleman, e ai ki a Al Qaeda. He Pakistani ia i mahi hei hononga o te roopu ki te Taliban Pakistan me te kaihauturu tuarua o te peka o Al Qaeda ki te Tonga o Ahia. (Ko te ingoa tūturu o Mansur ko Qari Ubaidullah, he Pakistani i tirotiro i nga misioni whakamomori ki nga hoia US me NATO i Afghanistan). He hōu noa iho te peka o Āhia ki te Tonga o Al Qaeda, i whakapuakihia ki te nui o te haruru i te marama o Hepetema e te kaiārahi matua o Al Qaeda, a Ayman al-Zawahiri. Ko te hanganga o te peka o Ahia ki te Tonga o te roopu whakamataku i kitea e etahi kaitohutohu whakamataku hei ngana ki te tahae i etahi o nga maaramatanga mai i te ISIS, e uru ana ki te tautohetohe a te iwi me al Qaeda mo te kaiarahi o te kaupapa jihad o te ao. Ko te matenga o nga tangata tokorua kei te haere tonu te whakangaromanga o te pae o nga kaiarahi o al Qaeda. I te Mane, i te taone o Karachi i te tonga o Pakistan, i mate te rangatira o Al Qaeda a Nurul Hassan i roto i te whakaekenga, e ai ki a Arif Hanif, te kaitiaki nui o te pirihimana o te rohe. Ko Adnan Shukrijumah, 39, i tipu ake i Florida, ko ia te kawenga mo nga mahi a al Qaeda ki te whakaeke i te Hauauru, i mate i te marama o Tihema i roto i te mahi a te ope taua Pakistani. Ko Mohanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, i whanau mai i Texas, i whai wāhi hoki ki te whakamahere i ngā mahi a al Qaeda, i hopukina i Pakistan i te tau kua hipa. Ko te matenga o Ubaidullah raua ko Suleman e whakaatu ana i te meka kaore he rangatira o Al Qaeda i mahue i tua atu o al-Zawahiri. He Pakistani a Ubaidullah rāua ko Suleman. He tohu tēnei o te āhua o te noho a Al Qaeda hei rōpū e arotahi ana ki Pakistan, e kaha ake ana ki te kore mahi nui i waho o Pakistan, o Afghanistan rānei. Inaa hoki, kaore he kaha o Al Qaeda ki te kawe...
Ka whakapumautia e Al Qaeda e rua o ā rātau kaiārahi i mate i roto i ngā whakaekenga rererangi kore i te marama o Hānuere. Kua mate ētahi atu kaiārahi, kua hopukina rānei i nā tata nei. Ko te kaha o te rōpū kaiwhakatuma ki te whakaeke i te Uru kua tino whakaitihia.