CNN The Situation Room August 6, 2013 21:19:00
One role that was vacated with the death of bin laden. >> how do you explain that? >> well, al qaeda is still in business. it's been decimated, certainly al qaeda prime. but their ability to conduct a major attack is still up reduced. but the areas from which al qaeda could conduct an attack, they've actually increased. yemen, somalia, libya, iraq, syria, algeria, mali, all these place nous have an collis now h presence. >> it's like they franchised these operations in all these places. >> exactly. >> within a matter of a few days over the past couple or three weeks, there were major prison br...