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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam CIA chief warns of long road ahead in Afghanistan AFP - Monday, June 28 Send IM Story Print WASHINGTON (AFP) - – The war in Afghanistan will be tougher and longer than expected despite strides against Al-Qaeda that have weakened Osama bin Laden's terror network, the CIA chief warned. After a week in which US President Barack Obama sacked his top Afghan war commander and troop deaths soared to a new high since the 2001 invasion, spy chief Leon Panetta conceded there were "serious problems." "We're dealing with a tribal society. We're dealing with a country that has problems with governance, problems with corruption, problems with narcotics trafficking, problems with a Taliban insurgency," Panetta told ABC's "This Week." Emboldened perhaps by divisions in the US war effort exposed by the sacking of Afghan commander General Stanley McChrystal, Taliban attacks are on the rise -- a fact Panetta did not attempt to hide. Despite some measure of progress toward fulfilling Obama's pledge to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" Al-Qaeda, "it's harder, it's slower than I think anyone anticipated," he said, pointing toward "greater violence" on the part of the Taliban. Related article: Increased NATO ops behind high death toll But Panetta, installed by Obama last year to head the Central Intelligence Agency, was eager to note that Al-Qaeda's leadership was now apparently in a weaker state than ever before, with as few as 50 members of the terror group left in Afghanistan while US forces worked hard to "flush out" bin Laden. "I think at most, we're looking at maybe 50 to 100 (Al-Qaeda members), maybe less" in Afghanistan, Panetta said, while admitting most were in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas that lie along the border with Afghanistan. Obama, speaking in Toronto, Canada at the conclusion of the G20 summit of leading economies also talked about a "weakened" Al-Qaeda. "Al-Qaeda is pinned down and has been weakened in part because they don't have the run of the territory. We would be less secure if you return to a situation that existed prior to 9/11 in which... a government was friendly and willing to house their operations," he said. Panetta said the pressure was beginning to tell on bin Laden and Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri. US-led operations have brought the Al-Qaeda leadership to its "weakest point since 9/11 and their escape from Afghanistan into Pakistan," he said. "If we keep that pressure on, we think ultimately we can flush out bin Laden and Zawahiri and get after them." Although hard intelligence on the world's most-wanted fugitive has been scarce since the 2001 attacks on the United States, at least half of Al-Qaeda's leaders have now been captured or killed, according to Panetta. "We continue to disrupt them. We continue to impact on their command and control. We continue to impact on their ability to plan attacks in this country," he added, noting last month's killing of Al-Qaeda number three Mustafa Abu al-Yazid. Bin Laden remains "in very deep hiding," surrounded by tremendous security in a tribal area in Pakistan, a terrain the head of the CIA dubbed "the most difficult in the world." Panetta insisted Obama's surge strategy -- to bring to 150,000 the number of international troops on the ground by the end of August -- is the right one, and said the Afghans needed to step up. "I think the fundamental key, the key to success or failure is whether the Afghans accept responsibility, are able to deploy an effective army and police force to maintain stability," he added. "If they can do that, then I think we're going to be able to achieve the kind of progress and the kind of stability that the president is after." The CIA is also hunting radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, a US-born Yemeni who recently urged all Muslims serving in the US military to kill their comrades and who has been linked to several previous attacks. "Awlaqi is a terrorist and yes, he's a US citizen, but he is first and foremost a terrorist and we're going to treat him like a terrorist," Panetta said. "We don't have an assassination list, but I can tell you this: We have a terrorist list and he's on it." A top Republican senator meanwhile cautioned the war would not be resolved by military means alone and that the United States faces the prospect of a "very ugly victory." "This is not a conventional war," Senator Saxby Chambliss told CNN's "State of the Union" as he decried the Afghan President Hamid Karzai's administration as "the most corrupt government weve ever dealt with from a conflict standpoint." 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