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Main al qaeda. the central organization. >> right. >> but these splinter groups, mainly located in yemen now, as well as in somalia and a couple of other places, have been increasingly attempting to fill that vacuum. and that is the main focus of american intelligence and american drone strikes with the cooperation of officials in yemen. >> hold on there, andrea. let's go right now to evan colman, our nbc terrorism analyst. he joins us by phone. evan, again, back to that question when we've been listening to the top administration people from the president on down recently we've been hearing t...

Afghanistan, general david petraeus, then following that, of course, the head of the cia. but at the time, he no longer had the operation ability with al qaeda. main al qaeda. the central organization. >> right. >> but these splinter groups, mainly located in yemen now, as well as in somalia and a couple of other places, have been increasingly attempting to fill that vacuum. and that is the main focus of american intelligence and american drone strikes with the cooperation of officials in yemen. >> hold on there, andrea. let's go right now to evan colman, our nbc terrorism analyst. he joins us...

Its job under petraeus followed by the work of leon panetta. >> it is in the cia, but you have to have leadership there. what the president has got in john brennan is someone with the authority and focus to follow there. there's been an effort in the white house to demolish these leaders as they emerge to use unprecedented drone attacks and it's been successful. you can see that in the intelligence they picked up around bin laden. they were trying to keep low cover. not coming out into the open. it hampered them operationally and led them to their demise, not just around the al qaeda leadershi...

Qaeda in the arabian peninsula that doesn't take its instructions from bin laden. the attempted bombing of cargo planes. and of course a year ago the attempt to blow up a plane coming into detroit with the so called underwear bomber. al qaeda central is still a threat. had been to an al qaeda training camp and was getting direction from the core leadership of al qaeda. but that's an exception and the kind of threat we have looked at here in the u.s. over the last several months and years as not so much directed by bin laden but by either splinter groups or home grown terrorists. you won't see ...