in all of these geographies that you ve mentioned, yes, there are a small number of international terrorists. but, for the most part, the people who occupy this ungoverned space are local people and have their own concerns. if those areas aren t grand threats, peter bergen says there s an offshoot we do have to keep close tabs on. in syria, he was saying the most effective fighting force is an al qaeda news organization. they are doing something like groups have never done before. i think this is really a new phenomenon. you have a militia operating in kind of a political manner,
you have a militia operating in kind of a political manner, unlike most al qaeda affiliates. how that will play out, we ll see. what s already begun to play out, as we saw in boston, is the more immediate, bigger threat to the homeland. what we ve seen and what concerns us in the last few years is other approaches to creating terror. one of those came from a lock. an american-born al qaeda operative known as the bin laden of the internet. he was basically urging people anywhere, anyhow, do what you can to be able to go to the
in all of these geographies that you ve mentioned, yes, there are a small number of international terrorists. but, for the most part, the people who occupy this ungoverned space are local people and have their own concerns. if those areas aren t grand threats, peter bergen says there s an offshoot we do have to keep close tabs on. in syria, he was saying the most effective fighting force is an al qaeda news organization. they are doing something like groups have never done before. i think this is really a new phenomenon. you have a militia operating in kind of a political manner,
hezboll hezbollah-like militia operating in a political manner, much like al qaeda affiliates. how that will play out, we ll see. what has already begun to play out, as we saw in boston, is the more immediate, bigger threat to the homeland. leon panetta explains what keeps him up at night. what we ve seen and what concerns us, i think, in the last few years is other approaches to creating terror. one of those came from alaki. known to many as the bin laden of the internet. he is believed to have started in inspire magazine. online propaganda outfit filled with articles in how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. he was basically urging people anywhere, anyhow, do what you can to be able to go into
that we do have to worry about. but for the most part, the people that occupy this ungoverned space are local people and have their own local concerns. but if the al qaeda affiliates in those areas aren t yet grand threats, peter bergen says there s an offshoot we do need to keep close tabs on in a surprising place. in syria, fareed was saying, you know, a very interesting phenomenon the most effective fighting force against assad is an al qaeda organization. they are doing something al qaeda groups have never done before. large amounts of a bread to a very desperate population. i think this is really a new phenomenon where you have a hezbollah-like militia operating in a political manner, much like al qaeda affiliates. how that will play out, you know, we ll see. what s already begun to play