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This religion and this faith. you didn't think he would die and take it with him, did you? they want to continue this. this is what the statement establishes. the idea of continuity. >> he wouldn't take it with him. continuity. that relates to chatter. you monitor that. have you seen more of it? >> yeah. there's a lot of chatting about this right now actually on al qaeda's forums, the same forums where this statement came out from. you have people that are saying pretty nasty things about the united states. i guess that's to be expected. some of these folks are dangerous. >> what about volume?...

Recordings from him, and it has taken years and not easy. if you look at the condition of the hideout where he was found it is clear why. no phone, no internet connection and no electronic way of picking up on him. >> but in some ways this compound must have stuck out like a sore thumb, because it was eight times larger than any other structure in that area, and yet it had no internet or phone and it is easy to say it stuck out like a sore thumb in hindsight, but? >> well, it is this idea of the cave that we came up in the media, and the other interesting thing is that we have been talking abo...

>> he would be equated with a chief of operations. >> reporter: investigators have revealed to cnn they believe he is now directing al qaeda's overseas operations. how dangerous is he? >> he may not be somebody that's going to come into the united states to conduct the attack. but what makes him more dangerous is that he is out there plotting the attacks and recruiting people to actively do that. >> reporter: the breakthrough came when brian leblanc linked him to the thwarted subway suicide mission last fall, the biggest post-9/11 terror investigation. prosecutors say it was him who called the...

50, 100 al qaeda left in afghanistan because they're hiding in pakistan. and if we're dealing with al qaeda on the afghani/pakistani border, why is the expenditure of resources for bases in afghanistan chrks is a 14th century country, the best way to achieve the objective that's described. we spend lots of money on health care and get bad health care. we spend lots of money on education and get bad education. how do we know we're not getting bad war, effectively? >> we don't know that. we doe know we have the best folks we can muster trying to figure out what is the best way to do this. it's a...

Can we afford to take that kind of a risk? and unfortunately i think the obama administration has it right in the sense that we can't afford to take that risk. it's too much of a risk, especially when you see plot after plot after plot surfacing around the and they're relatively recent, being coordinated not by indistinctive figures in the network but by al qaeda central leadership, the very people we're firing missiles at in waziristan. >> when you talk about the afghan/pakistani border, a that's a question a lot of people raise, are we focusing enough efforts in pakistan, do we have our eye ...