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Begin plotting attacks? >> yeah. al qaeda has been established in afghanistan. in 2015, the u.s. raided a -- one of the largest bases it's seen since it launched the war on terror in kandahar province and killed 150 al qaeda operatives. the release of these prisoners. this is a boom for jihadism. some of them are islamic state but most of them are al qaeda and affiliated groups and i am told that members of -- and it makes sense because we know we detain them. but of the external operation cells, these are the ones who attacked [ inaudible ] scores of them have been freed from the prisons in b...