they were grooming bin laden paused maxon to ta ke grooming bin laden paused maxon to take over and hesplit from each other in 2016, there were disagreements. and i'm worried that they might try to come back together and unite to be one far more lethal terrorist organisation. so that is something that we really need to be looking out for, even though in many respects, al-qaeda and isil have been tepidly cooperating and other theatres and other parts of the world. but in the iraq— syria area, they were not working together. how concerned should the united states and its allies be about reprisal attacks either from is or any other factions which emerged along the lines that karen just described?” think it's possible that isil will try to have some sort of retaliatory attacks. but i think it is a real question of what kind of capability, at this point, do they have to strike out? i think one of the things to be concerned about is that with donald trump is back decision to withdraw most us troops from syria and with the syrian democratic forces having to be displaced, there isa forces havi