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Their core leadership in the fattah. when i first came into government, there were four key people that were largely running al qaeda. today three of them are dead and one is in deep hiding. not to mention a number of other members of what we were often called the top 20 leadership. many of them have been, have been hit, as well. >> former cia analyst cindy who spent a career tracking terror said despite the virtual decapitation of al qaeda's leadership, don't count the group out. >> i get a little nervous when people say it's over, we don't have to worry about that any more because al qaeda a...

>> the best onset of that question is what osama bin laden's own assessment of what it was. before he died, he wrote a letter basically outlining how much the drones had impacted his group. he was very aware that the al qaeda brand was in deep trouble. he was advising other groups not to adopt the al qaeda brand because it would be bad for fund-raising and attract a lot of negative attention. that's osama bin laden's assessment and i think that's a pretty accurate one. >> former secretary of defense leon panetta oversaw the campaigns against al qaeda in pakistan's tribal areas known as the fat...

Cafes open. in gaza, poverty, donkeys and horses, some cars, but most older and beat up. still right there in the center of gaza city, big posters celebrating what they call martyrs, murderers, terrorists who carried out strikes on israelis, and, hamas, which, of course, controls gaza. economically, it's devastation, wolf. i was at a furniture factory, for example, 150 employees a few years ago, used to trade to israel, ship to the united states and elsewhere, but israel won't accept exports anywhere, so from 150 employees down to to employees. the owner said he blames israel but also hamas an...

Prime minister sayyad so he's going to try to understand what's going on with the palestinian authority and what the future is going to look like, what's the relationship between fattah and hamas, what's the likely of the future of palestinians going to be. >> president obama has not been to israel. again, he's going to be going we're told in the next month or so. he's taken some flack for this, intends to visit the region soon. how is our president regarded now in that part of the world? >> well, let me make a couple of points. the first is that it's not unusual for presidents during their fi...

The president and the leadership of the palestinian authority. again, that's going to be very, very volatile. in all frankness, the president, he has great sympathy, if you will, for the palestinians. and it will be interesting to see what comes out of that meeting. i don't have much hope for any sort of two-state solution, quite frankly, in the next two years here, but i'm sure the president is going to make an effort at it. >>brian: you can do whatever you want with fattah. they don't have power and could end of merging. we know the president will sit down with president netanyahu, who both ...