men, ten men in the mumbai attack using automatic weapons and small explosives, hand gra natds and the like. and this plot not only coordinated around a couple of hotels in one city but planned for britain for france and planned for germany. officials say that they ve interrupted this as such a stage that it had not got beyond pakistan. it was still being planned and none of these potential attackers had come back to europe. all information that this german afghan provided. ahmed sidiqi arrested in kabul in july of this year, ali. thanks. paul crook schank, in london. when we hear about this, these two things have a connection. when we hear about the top al qaeda commanders or even lieutenants who are captured or killed, mostly killed these days what does this do to the structure of al qaeda? i mean, there are obviously great resources an strategy that
area in pakistan, in the border with afghanistan for so long. if those areas were to one day be secured, is that enough of a hit to al qaeda that they really can t operate as effectively? reporter: it will be in the short term when you take out those camps, but let s look at the bigger picture here. you ve got al qaeda operating out of yemen. they ve got a franchise there. that was the franchise that sent the bomber abdul, christmas day on that flight to detroit. you ve got the al qaeda group operating in in in somalia, rather, drawing recruits from the united states. you ve got al qaeda groups working in the north of africa. so you can wrap them up in pakistan, but they re elsewhere, too, ali. nic robertson, paul, thanks very much. we ll continue this conversation in the next hour. when we come back we re off to michigan where a student body president is learning a tough lesson in sexual politics.