to this end, i met with president mubarak in egypt, and king abdullah in jordan, to elicit the support of these leaders in expanding the circle of peace in our region. i turn to all arab leaders tonight and i say: "let us meet. let us speak of peace and let us make peace. i am ready to meet with you at any time. i am willing to go to damascus, to riyadh, to beirut, to any place- including jerusalem. i call on the arab countries to co-operate with the palestinians and with us to advance an economic peace. an economic peace is not a substitute for a political peace, but an important element to achieving it. together, we can undertake projects to overcome the scarcities of our region, like water desalination or to maximise its advantages, like developing solar energy, or laying gas and petroleum lines, and transportation links between asia, africa and europe. together we can realize the achievements of the end -- impressive monster proportions i see in the persian gulf. the economic success of the gulf states has impressed us all and it has impressed me. i call on the talented entrepreneu

era of reconciliation in our region, to this end, i met first with president mubarak in egypt and king abdullah of jordan to elicit the support of these leaders in expanding the circle of peace. i turn to all arab leaders tonight and i say, let us meet. let us speak of peace. let us make peace. i am ready to meet with you at any time. i am willing to go to damascus, to beirut, to jerusalem, too. illing to go to damascus, to riyadh, to beirut, to jerusalem also. [applause] i call on the >> i call on us to advance an economic peace and it's not a substitute for political peace but it is an important element to achieve it, together we can undertake projects to overcome the scarcities of our region, like water decontamination or to maximize the advantages of this region like developing solar energy, or exploding our geographic location to lay gas and petroleum lines and transportation links between asia, africa and europe. together, we can realize the achievements of the impressive entrepreneurship i see in the persian gulf impresses me very much and i call upon the talented entrepreneurs of the arab world t

we've seen a shift so that in 2005 king abdullah of jordan brought together 500 islamic scholars and leaders from the muslim world who unanimously declared the ideology of al qaeda and said al qaeda muslims should not support al qaeda and specifically contradicted al qaeda as arguments about jihad and the validity of terrorism as a struggle so people in the west say where are the muslims? the haven't stood up and spoken out against al qaeda. they have. it happened in 2005. it's never happened again across the muslim world so what i would suggest is al qaeda has lost a lot of ground since 1911. the leaders are looking over their shoulders looking scared and a lot of cases and the fact they have not been able to mount a successful attack on the united states since 9/11 isn't only because of the sheer brilliance of the counterterrorism issues. [laughter] but also that lost a lot of support. people don't support their agenda at the moment. >> take that a little further if you would. there has been a lot of commentary by people who look carefully at al qaeda. lawrence wright is an example