if you're in hiding, if you're zawahiri and you're in hiding, it's difficult and there's a time to issuing statements. you want to be careful. you don't do it every day. you try to minimize it and get information out. so they went to the trouble of issuing a statement after bin laden's death and it would have made perfect sense to me if you were going to name zawahiri, who was the obvious heir apparent, if you will, that you would have done it all in a single statement so you didn't have to take the risk of issuing a second statement, and we didn't see that. we assume that they would confirm him to lead al qaeda, but we haven't seen or heard that yet. of course, the intelligence before this has suggested he's a difficult guy, difficult to get along with, doesn't have the same charisma as bin laden, doesn't have the power to quell this sort of discontent among the affiliates that bin laden had. so we have to wonder is it a lack of support for his ascension to al qaeda. >> and he is a controversial