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laith alkhouri is from flashpoint global partners and thank you for being here.as go through it. and let's chain the groups and their differences. let's start with al qaeda, which was the original terrorist group in 2001 that people knew about. talk about the branches. >> indeed. al qaeda has established branches throughout time. it didn't happen all at the same time. but we know the origins in afghanistan, osama bin laden established that and with his mentor and his mentor was assassinated in '89. bin ladin continued on and it was focused on the soviet forces and continued on with the taliban. so al qaeda central leadership which is in afghan region pakistani borders. and then you have al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, because the roots go back to saudi arabia. and later on in 2008 they established aqap in southern yemen which has try the to carry out attacks in the western europe. and then we have al qaeda kind of stations in southern algeria, although it does commit a few terrorists acts in neighboring countries like mali and -- >> and sometimes we heard of a