Can al-Qaa'edah be defeated?

[phatmonky]

I have not read all of these replies yet, so pardon me if I repeat somethign that has already been said.......

Al-Qaeda is NOT performing Jihad in the islamic sense, according to my reading, for the Quran calls for explicitly for Jihad WITHOUT the killing of women and children. No where in the Quran does it suggest Jihad to be waged with a disregard to other muslims, or innocent's lives.

Killing of Iraqis with car bombs, turks with car bombs, civilians at Italian, American, and English Embassies, bombing of UN PEACEKEEPERS.......this is not Jihad as I am told. This is a abombination that cloaks itself in a religion.