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Is there evidence, though, that they are training people in Iraq to do operations abroad?

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Is there evidence, though, that they are training people in Iraq to do operations abroad?

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AQI has done—certainly under Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi—”external operations” [in Jordan]. I am not going to comment on the most recent U.K. thing and whether there was a connection. The Europeans have been concerned about traffic between Iraq and Europe. There’s always a concern. Frankly, with what is going on inside Iraq right now, it is probably fair to say that Abu Ayyub al-Masri [the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq] pretty much has his hands full, although not completely. Tell us about the threat that emerged earlier this year. We’ve got this intelligence threat; we’re pretty certain we know what’s going on. We don’t have all the tactical details about it, [but] in some ways it’s not unlike the U.K. aviation threat last year. So we know there is a threat out there. The question is, what do we do about it? And the response was, we stood up an interagency task force under NCTC leadership. So you have all the players you would expect: FBI, CIA, DHS, DIA, DoD, the operators—the military side co

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