Al Qaeda in Death Throes

Strategypage measures the evidence why the jihad is losing steam:

Al Qaeda operations continue to decline, as the number of al Qaeda
members, and leaders killed or captured, goes up. Then there's al Qaeda
media activity. Up until last Fall, 93 percent of al Qaeda Internet
announcements were video. Since then, most of them are just audio, and sounding
increasingly less confident...Al Qaeda is having some success in the Western
media, and among Moslems living in Europe. But those expatriate Moslems are
handicapped by many of their brethren who are not enthusiastic about Islamic
terrorism. The police get tips, make arrests, and al Qaeda losses a few more
true believers. Al Qaeda is desperate for another highly visible attack in the
West. Many such operations are apparently being planned, but by amateurs who can
get no help from al Qaeda experts.

Amateurs as we see in Britain. This goes along with something I read in Clausewitz "The idea of wearing out in a struggle amounts in practice to A GRADUAL EXHAUSTION OF THE PHYSICAL POWERS AND OF THE WILL BY THE LONG CONTINUANCE OF EXERTION." Al Qaeda sought to wear out the US forces, forcing us into an embarrassing retreat as in Somalia. But they failed to reckon with the tenaciousness of George W. Bush!

And from Yahoo/AP, Iraqi civilian deaths down 36 percent.