operationally important. that's the claim we have today from the white house from the tweet of president trump. something to look at. al qaeda itself, they're basically a local jihad group with the ability to reach out and attack the west. al qaeda is the central group that attacked us on 9/11. in london they killed 52 commuters. that's a long time ago. they sent three americans to try and conduct a suicide operation in manhattan in 2009. that's a decade ago now. luckily that failed. their ability to carry out anything now is very improbable. they have local regional affiliates in syria. they have other affiliates in north africa and other places around the world.