successful counteroffensive and amnesty program, in fact, one of the founders of gpsc was part of that amnesty program. so they were then driven out into the sahel region, a remote region of malley that s about the mali that s about the size of texas, and they have a few fighters. however, there are a couple of troubling things that mine that they re a threat to the international community. not only is there a widespread, large population of muslims who may be disaffected in north africa with easy routes to europe, but aqim has shifted its tactics from the guerrilla tactics that were to so un so unsuccessful in algeria to using double the amount of explosives, and primarily their threat is in propaganda. jon: sounds like this is a marriage of convenience, a merger with al-qaeda. you can t conduct these