CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings June 6, 2014
Frankly, how do you see al qaeda today . I would like to begin with something that i think is underlying some of our different views of al qaeda. Your vision of the africa and so on and so forth. But in fact, al qaeda has always had a second that has taken up funding time and effort from the 1990s. In 99 of the funding was going to creating what they call guerrilla fighters. The longterm insurgency rather than the 1 that is being spent on external attacks, that is, terrorist attacks. If an organization spends 99 of its money on one effort and only 1 on the other effort, on what basis do we foc...