Fox & Friends: New Al Qaeda Video Buries Obama’s Claims Terror Group ‘Decimated’

Noah RothmanApr 16th, 2014, 8:26 am
 

A new video has surfaced which features members of Al Qaeda attending a large, outdoor meeting in Yemen. That video indicates, according to the hosts of Fox & Friends, that the terrorist operatives who attended that meeting are not afraid of reprisals from Western military forces. The hosts also observed that the video suggests President Barack Obama and his administration were wrong when they insisted in 2011 and 2012 that Al Qaeda was “decimated.”

Host Brian Kilmeade observed that the video is extraordinary because “there was a time when they would never be out in the open.”

“When you listen to the tape, you hear them talking about America being the number one target that they still have to hit,” Kilmeade added

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The hosts played a montage of clips featuring Obama and Vice President Joe Biden asserting that Al Qaeda’s operational capabilities had been severely limited by the administration’s actions.

“That all flies in the face of this new video that is out there,” host Steve Doocy asserted. “Al Qaeda is not dead.”

“They are not on the run,” he continued. “They’re out there. They want to kill us.”

Watch the clip below via Fox News Channel:

[photo via screengrab ]

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An experienced broadcaster and columnist, Noah Rothman has been providing political opinion and analysis to a variety of media outlets since 2010. His work has appeared in a number of political opinion journals, and he has shared his insights with television and radio personalities across the country.