KABUL - The US President Barack Obama in an interview with CNN said that although the job is not finished, but al-Qaeda's capacity has been degraded.
"Well, what is fair to say is that the counterterrorism strategy as applied to al-Qaeda has been extremely successful. The job is not finished, but there's no doubt that we have severely degraded al-Qaeda's capacity."
Obama described stabilization of Afghanistan a messy task because it is not only military.

"When it comes to stabilizing Afghanistan, that was always going to be a more difficult and messy task, because it's not just military - it's economic, it's political, it's dealing with the capacity of an Afghan government that doesn't have a history of projecting itself into all parts of the country, tribal and ethnic conflicts that date back centuries," the US President said.