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Could you be more radical than al qaeda? al qaeda committed the 9/11 attack. that is true, but what happened to al qaeda is over time, the leadership learned that restraint -- initially, bin laden did not understand that, but what happened was that the affiliate in iraq, al qaeda in iraq, began using violence very indiscriminately, basically blowing up anything that moved. and bin laden was a student of militancy. and what he understood was that this indiscriminate violence against civilian targets was counterproductive. so, increasingly towards the end of his life, he began telling -- operati...