After the 9/11 events, have the number of Al Qaeda in Yemen increased?
That’s a very important question. I do not think they have significantly. We expected them to increase as individuals flowed out of Afghanistan and out of Pakistan. But I think a combination of measures by the Yemeni government to tighten entry procedures and to move against Al Qaeda cells in Yemen made Yemen a less hospitable place than the Al Qaeda operatives anticipated. You say you expected them to come this way, but you think that measures have been put into place to prevent them. How sure are you? Or how comfortable are you when you go to sleep at night that there’s not an increase in Al Qaeda here? What kind of assuredness do you have on this? Well, in my experience working in counterterrorism, there are no guarantees. No one who knows the issue is inclined to complacency, so don’t get me wrong. But if you look at the level of activity, if you look at the travel of people that we do know about, there’s a lot of evidence that large flows have not occurred. But small flows have oc
