WESTERN DESERT, Iraq (CNN) -- The hot wind swirls around the human bones and cracked skulls that litter the forsaken desert lands in Western Iraq. The entrance to the bunker complex where al Qaeda terrorized enemies in Iraq. We are standing in the middle of what was an al Qaeda execution site, just outside an intricate bunker complex that the organization used to torture and murder its victims, the bodies left to rot or be eaten by animals. From the back of the police truck the opening to the first bunker is barely discernible in the distance. "Al Qaeda came in as a massive force" one of the officers says as we bump along the harsh terrain. "They stole our cars, our personal cars. They kidnapped two of my brothers. They blew up the house over there."
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Abandoned al Qaeda in Iraq bunker base littered with bones of its enemies
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U.S. bombed bunkers in 2007 but stench of decay remains in desert base
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Source close to al Qaeda says it lost in Iraq as it lost support of the people
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He says al Qaeda's focus is now Afghanistan
Meanwhile, al Qaeda's global war has sifted to a place it believes it can still win -- @placeholder.