https://www.metimes.com/International...oup_back/1653/



Since December 150 AQI/ISI facilitators, planners and cell leaders have been killed or detained, but "it is like having a bucket of sand and taking a Dixie cup of sand out: the sand will fill back in. But there is a little less sand in the bucket," Boyd said. Retaliatory attacks result from the affected terror cells, but they are "not as coordinated" and "less and less capable" as experienced leadership is removed.