a safe haven of operation in Afghanistan was provided to them by the Taliban and prognosticators in Afghanistan Saudi

of our operations and a low of war %HESITATION if you see an al queda operative out in the open walking down the road we

Afghanistan returning to chaos or Afghanistan being a sanctuary for al Qaeda %HESITATION

now in Libya conducting operations in the Sinai there now in Afghanistan trying to supplant the Taliban as

what they need is they need an operating space that's what afghanistan was for al qaeda it was a vacuum that they failed and they created an operating space that's

you under the law of war but if there's a terrorist cell operating in the United States somehow

captured in Afghanistan our Supreme Court reaffirmed the proposition that we can hold one of our own as an enemy combatant when

to kill them but they're certain areas where they operate that the only way we can get to on this

we are transferred authority for detention operations to the Afghans %HESITATION in March and

off base now bad this one final thought if there is an al queda operative US citizen who

want to go in there and grab the person for intelligence purposes the reason we're using drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan we

then the world is a lot simpler today our enemy they operate in caves in the mountains of Pakistan Afghanistan and

fill people's enemy combatants associated with al queda and the Taliban for over decades including American

they are senator %HESITATION drones have drones have the operations in %HESITATION Afghanistan %HESITATION significantly senator that's that's one of the ways that we put pressure on the al Qaeda as an example but they're effective across all

the ability of our government find out what he knew about the war on terror current operations and future operations he

our national security interests Anwar Awlaki was a senior al queda operative who coordinated