"We do believe al-Qaeda is doing some measure of re-assessment regarding the continued viability of its fight in Iraq and whether Iraq should remain the focus of its efforts," Brigadier General Brian Keller, senior intelligence officer for General David Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq, told the paper in an e-mail.
But Keller cautioned that the United States had not confirmed that recruits are being sent to Afghanistan or that al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders have gone there.
The Post, citing a US intelligence analyst, reported that al-Qaeda in Iraq has been "seriously weakened" in the last year and that the flow of foreign fighters into the country has plummeted.
Abdullah al-Ansari, an al-Qaeda leader in Fallujah, told the daily that group leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri had travelled to Afghanistan through Iran.
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