funding. i'm going back to that again, the issue of the saudis because you mentioned that potentially they could be involved, we don't have information of that at this time but just because of the proximity of these countries, the saudis have been helpful in certain areas to go after some of these terrorists, but we also have to remember that a lot of the 9/11 hijackers were also saudis and this issue of saudi arabia has never been truly reconciled in the last ten years of our war on terror. so is it possible that some of the funding for al-qaeda in the arabian pen lanes is coming from saudi arabia? >> it certainly is a possibility. i don't have any particular knowledge of that. there could be individuals who are funding them. you know, this is something we have to get at, and this is where international cooperation is so critically important. i think the saudis had a wake-up call in the last six, # years about what was going on in their own country and the threat from al-qaeda. they cracked down ton, and as you mentioned, they tried to kill the counterterrorism