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Al qaeda and north africa tried to take over earlier this year and would have succeed seeded had it not been for french intervention. >> you could have made the same argument 15 years ago -- is afghanistan a threat to us? distant highly -- remote little country in the middle of asia. but it is a threat to the extent it provides a secure base from which al qaeda can plan and plot. that's the issue. now the biggest threat increasingly i would say is not yemen but syria where we have thousands of fighters affiliated and other al qaeda linked al qaeda groups. and that are gaining strength. they ar...

>> reporter: no. what you basically have here is a group of fighters, the opposition, that is by and large young men with absolutely no previous fighting experience, arming themselves with whatever they happen to find in the arm depots they manage to control up against a very fierce and well-trained fighting machine. they say that they will fight until the very end. they say that they have a plan b in case this no-fly zone doesn't materialize, but it's really difficult to foresee how they're actually going to be able to stand up against colonel gadhafi's forces, especially since they have air ...