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On anniversary of 911 Attacks, US says al-Qaida in Afghanistan all but dead

More than two decades after al-Qaida operatives slammed passenger jets into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, America's war on terror has left the terror group practically impotent, unable to strike the U.S. homeland, according to the latest U.S. intelligence assessment.

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