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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida won't be vanquished until after Osama bin Laden is captured or killed U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal told lawmakers in Washington Tuesday.
The general, who is the top military commander in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee bin Laden has become an "iconic figure" whose survival "emboldens" the insurgency, The Hill reported.
McChrystal told the Senate panel finding bin Laden and pushing back the Taliban are important facets to winning the Afghan war, CNN reported.
"It would not defeat al-Qaida to have him captured or killed, but I don't think we can finally defeat al-Qaida until he is finally captured or killed," the general said.
Despite a multimillion-dollar reward for his capture and the efforts of the United States and its allies, bin Laden, the engineer of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, is still at large eight years later. It is widely believed he is hiding in the mountain along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, though are some who think he may actually be dead.
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