jamie, good morning. good morning, chris. a name a lot of people know is bin laden s second in command, al zawahri trying to take down egypt s government for decades now. are you surprise d you very head from the ubiquitous audio messages? why aren t we hearing from al qaeda in all this? we have heard he issued one written issued statement in the last 24 hours that said, you need to engage in violent jihad. what we ve seen i think, the frequency of statements from al qaeda in general is, has dropped off, primarily because of the strikes, the predator strikes hitting them so hard. you know, if you re going to be way more interested in finding a hole to hide in than to speak to the media if you ve got a 2,000 laser-guided bomb coming your way. it s a lot of a lot of people are suggesting that what happened in egypt was a a
shabab and al qaeda in general, they don t respect african life. what was the message he was trying to send there? an important point. al qaeda and its affiliates have killed more muslims than anybody else. that is a message that we, as a government, are trying to get out. now president obama. part of it is messenger. this is a point we need to be getting out and there is a point that people in the region need to be getting out. the terrorists killing muslims more than anybody else. al qaeda is a racist organization that does not value human life. pretty powerful words. roger, thank you. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no more paying to access your own money. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it d be like every atm in the world tdd# 1-800-345-2550 was your atm. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the schwab bank high yield investor checking(tm) account. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 zero atm fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 a great interest rate. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no minimums. d# 1-800-345-2550 d it s ic-insured. tdd# 1-800-345-2
laden s own mind but in al qaeda in general. what we found is that u.s. intelligence officials felt that bin laden himself was somewhat delusional and that he had come up with all these grandiose plans that he handled down to his operatives to go out and assassinate president obama, to go out and assassinate general david petraeus. yet the operatives knew that their ranks had been so decim e decimated by those relentless drone air strikes there in pakistan that president obama has o had ordered that they didn t have the means to carry it out. so, in fact, the al qaeda that carried out the 9/11 attack was dead and gone well before bin laden himself was killed. now, thomas, that doesn t mean there is not still a threat. in fact, u.s. officials tell us that the most serious terrorist threat against the united states is in al qaeda in yemen and specifically that master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri, who is