of pakistan. but certain officials are getting picked off there. but others remain, you know, at large. their leader, their top bomb maker, the guy most responsible for the new generations of underwear bombs. they re still at large. and we should note that the war against the al qaeda and arabian peninsula is not just a drone war. u.s. special operations forces based out of bases or at least kind of forward operating positions in the arabian peninsula have been working with yemeni special forces with saudi special forces among others to conduct attacks against some of those targets. so it s a combination of drone warfare as well as more conventional or at least special operations boots on the ground type activities. spencer and rajiv, my thanks to both of you. good to talk to you. when we return, in the never-ending effort to kill
large. their leader, their top bomb maker, the guy most responsible for the new generations of underwear bombs. they re still at large. and we should note that the war against the al qaeda and arabian peninsula is not just a drone war. u.s. special operations forces based out of bases or at least kind of forward operating positions in the arabian peninsula have been working with yemeni special forces with saudi special forces among others to conduct attacks against some of those targets. so it s a combination of drone warfare as well as more conventional or at least special operations boots on the ground type activities. spencer and rajiv, my thanks to both of you. good to talk to you. when we return, in the never-ending effort to kill obama care, republicans have taken themselves hostage.
the capabilities or is that not as clear? no, u.s. intelligence officials say that there have been significant in roads made in trying to take apart the senior levels of aqap. certainly not the same degree of success that the u.s. has claimed to have against a core al qaeda in the frontier regions of pakistan. but certain officials are getting picked off there. but others remain, you know, at large. their leader, their top bomb maker, the guy most responsible for the new generations of underwear bombs. they re still at large. and we should note that the war against the al qaeda and arabian peninsula is not just a drone war. u.s. special operations forces based out of bases or at least kind of forward operating positions in the arabian peninsula have been working with yemeni special forces with saudi special forces among others to conduct attacks against some of those targets. so it s a combination of drone warfare as well as more
bomber, every time the president makes a move on this, something from yemen comes up and trips him up. in terms of the objections to sending whether or not it is safe to send former guantanamo prisoners who have been cleared for release in terms of their raw assessment of dangerousness, however they do that, in terms of whether it s safe to send them to a place like yemen, can this government or the previous government make any meaningful assurances about this? does any of it strike you as substantive or is all of this politics? a lot of it is politics. the bush administration sent people back to saudi arabia because it trusted the saudi government. send them back to afghanistan because it trusted, in sort of a way, what the afghan government was. there hasn t been that same amount of trust in yemen, and the real irony is that the group in yemen, al qaeda, the group responsible for these underwear bombs, these cartridge bombs, that group has former guantanamo bay detainees in it,
could this government or the previous government make any meaningful assurances about that. is any of that substantive or is any of it politics this is. mostly it has to do with trust. the bush administration sent people back it saudi arabia because it trusted the saudi government. some people back it afghanistan because it trusted in sort of a way, what the afghan government was. there hasn t been that same amount of trust in yemen. and the real irony is that the group in yemen, al qaeda, the group responsible for the underwear bombs, that group has guantanamo detainees in it. but they are not yemenis, they are saudis. and why were they operational? because they had room to maneuver. that s correct. anything in terms of what you see as in terms of operational move to move in what the group has there? is there any chance of meaningful pressure from them from the domestic government? is it all imposed from the u.s. and cia military move pt?