data. we had the communique between dr. al zawahiri to the leader in the arabian peninsula. we have the end of ramadan, the anniversary of ben georgia si -- again georgia -- of benghazi and 9/11, and drone strikes raise the level of concern month policymakers and i think we took the appropriate steps, got people out of there and reduced the opportunity for destructive action taking place. >> shepard: you mentioned a couple of drone strikes. would you expand on that? >> the drone strikes today. in the past week or so we had a couple of drone strikes into yemen and we took out a couple of leaders of fairly-high ranking, not significantly high but high enough to cause concern. and specifically look the communique to the leader in araban peninsula saying, quote-unquote, let's do something, and that raised the concern, and when you look at these where people think about concerns of the past or alerts