"Top US general warns of a decentralised al Qaeda 'arc'"

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Top US general warns of a decentralised al Qaeda 'arc' running from Pakistan to Nigeria Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey said on Thursday that while the US and NATO have been successful in suppressing al Qaeda elements in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the group has adapted and decentralised according to a report by the US Department of Defence. “But the al Qaeda ideology has adapted and has decentralised,” he said after meeting NATO military leaders in Brussels. Depmsey warned that instability in the Middle East and North Africa had allowed the al Qaeda to take advantage of it with an “arc” running across the region starting from Pakistan. “Now you find these groups are spread across an arc that runs roughly from Pakistan across the Arabian Peninsula, across the Middle East and North Africa and all the way down into Nigeria with Boko Haram,” Dempsey said. CONTINUES

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