operations come to go. before we look back, let s look forward. al zawahiri, bad guy for a long time. what does it tell us about al qaeda s capabilities today and tomorrow? are americans safer because of this? i don t think there s any question that certainly in the near term, the loss of both bin laden and now zawahiri has removed some of the key leadership of al qaeda. al qaeda will still remain a threat. they still have a mission to be able to go after and kill americans and our allies, and i think they ll continue to do that, and i think the danger here now is that with the taliban in control of afghanistan and having provided a safe haven for zawahiri or what they hope was a safe haven, i think the real the i is that the taliban will continue to allow al qaeda to reconstruct itself in the future, so in the