What happened to Al Qaeda?

It's been about 6 years now since September 11, 2001. To many, it still seems like yesterday even though its dominance over the media has long been replaced. I came across an article today about Al Qaeda and what their current status is. The article went on to describe how Washington thinks that most of Al Qaeda is regrouping in Pakistan along the Afghan border. Their senior leaders are rebuilding their terrorist networks and connections to other nations. Admiral McConnel says that "Al Qaeda would still like to inflict mass casualties among the US, and it continues to seek weapons of mass destruction."

It is known that Pakistan's wild frontier is so remote that it is often way beyond the control of authorities, but nevertheless it still puzzles me why we are not doing something more to stop this from happening. We are all wound up in Iraq, but wasn't the war on terror started by these individuals after their devastating attacks on the US? This article was not front page news, I found it while looking through the smaller headlines. Why is it that this issue has somewhat taken the back burner with the media? It has been over six years and Osama Bin Laden is still at large. It troubles me that the United States still remains a major potential target, and while we have taken on Iraq, the original problem still has not been resolved, and even the media is paying less and less attention to it.