Saif al-Adel

The, you know, some are for local, and I imagine some are for external attacks.

You had Al-Qaeda's, who we think to be Al-Qaeda's emir, Saif al-Adel, uh, two years ago said, encouraging Afghans to, uh, or not Afghans, but people across the world to come to Afghanistan to, to train.

What are you hearing from your-- So you're, you're pretty plugged into sources in Afghanistan.

What are you hearing about Al-Qaeda's activities in Afghanistan? Do we, do, are we hearing that they're operating in camps outside of those 13 provinces? Um, what's your general assessment of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?

There's a lot of reasons, I think, for that.

Very likely because it would embarrass the Taliban, and if, if they have to admit that Saif al-Adel's their leader, and he's based in, uh, in Iran, that does-- you know, it's a bad look for them.

Maybe less bad look today than it was back in 2021.

It's so hard.