nbc's atia abawi is live for us in kabul. we talk about the larger war effort, i wanted to ask you what reaction, if any, there is to the news we reported at the top of the hour that al qaeda has released a statement confirming bin laden is dead. >> reporter: well, it's too soon to get a reaction right now from afghan officials on that statement from al qaeda, but we have to also remember that al qaeda has very little to no connection left in afghanistan right now. we have a very different insurgency that our u.s. troops are facing here on the ground. it's more of a fraction nalized, decentralized insurgency who answer to different leaders. this isn't someone that's taking control of the whole operation here in afghanistan. you have different groups throughout the country trying to gain control and at the same time fighting both u.s. and nato forces. savannah? >> and atia, what impact will this death of osama bin laden have on the fight there in afghanistan? >> you know, this is just one man, and he was an evil man, a man who

. >> >> atia abawi is our correspondent in london. i don't think it's too early to talk about the reaction to this news. let's start with the arab world. >> it's interesting, when you go throughout parts of the arab world, when you talk about osama bin laden, many people will point to conspiracy theorys. for the past ten year, they will say that bin laden has a, already died or gotten away. the fact that osama bin laden no longer has that much of an effect when it comes to the insurgencies in these parts of the world. when you look at afghanistan, in a place as primitive as afghanistan, a majority of the afghans don't even know what 9/11 was. and the taliban fighters that we see fighting are soldiers on the ground have no idea who osama bin laden is, or they've possibly heard of him. one thing we have to remember is that they no longer take orders from al qaeda, that they're operating under new leadership. but we also have to look at the psychological impact it's going to have on the fighters themselves. right now, when you look at th

. >> >> atia abawi is our correspondent in london. i don't think it's too early to talk about the reaction to this news. let's start with the arab world. >> it's interesting, when you go throughout parts of the arab world, when you talk about osama bin laden, many people will point to conspiracy theorys. for the past ten year, they will say that bin laden has a, already died or gotten away. the fact that osama bin laden no longer has that much of an effect when it comes to the insurgencies in these parts of the world. when you look at afghanistan, in a place as primitive as afghanistan, a majority of the afghans don't even know what 9/11 was. and the taliban fighters that we see fighting are soldiers on the ground have no idea who osama bin laden is, or they've possibly heard of him. one thing we have to remember is that they no longer take orders from al qaeda, that they're operating under new leadership. but we also have to look at the psychological impact it's going to have on the fighters themselves. right now, when you look at th