WASHINGTON (AP) — Al-Qaida is on the defensive but remains a "significant and present danger" to Americans, according to President Barack Obama's selection to lead the nation's top counterterrorism body.
"Al-Qaida in many ways is weakened," thanks to a decade of U.S. counterterrorism efforts, said Matthew Olsen, speaking Tuesday to a Senate panel weighing his confirmation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
"We've made substantial progress," but the U.S. must "redouble" its efforts to capitalize on Osama bin Laden's demise in a raid by Navy SEALs in Pakistan on May 2, Olsen said.
He spoke as the Obama administration warned that bin Laden's death has …
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