he said the persians, the heathon persians are becoming strong. now he's trying to piggy back on what is going on in syria, it is very much coming also sectarian directed al qaeda in iraq was a sectarian element. again linked with regional rivalries and so on and so forth. what does arab spring mean? any time that there is a political process and when people come including minority groups. i'm not pleased that they're going time that there is a root that you can go through political means, the likelihood of that local groups will disconnect themselves from the -- kind of the headquarters, al qaeda, after all, means headquarters. so we have to wait and see. but to me, it seems to me that arab spring probably is the worst thing that could have happened to -- for al qaeda, and they are going to have to play a catch-up with that. and i agree with you, that it shows that if -- even if you want to get rid of a corrupt government, whether it is egypt, syria, iran, and whatever, there are many of them around. so nobody has sort of monopoly corruption, unf