you talk about the interior minister, they talked about the assassination of mohammed binnai in charge of counterterrorism in saudi arabia. but what has... what we've been very successful in in the last couple years is developing a good partnership on looking at if financial network of al qaeda the collaborative way you indicated. that doesn't mean we don't have continuing challenges it can still happen and they're still trying to raise money in saudi arabia. >> rose: here's one thing that used to be... at least conventional wisdom which may long be dead. iran didn't support al qaeda, they had no special affection for al qaeda. in fact, they had put under house arrest some al qaeda people in tehran. what part of that is not true? >> i'm in a difficult situation because everything i know about this i'm not allowed to talk about. i think there's a more ambiguous sense about what iran's... a more ambiguous relationship than simply that. >> rose: and they're within elements that may or may not be represented by the iranian... of the government per se that engages in these kind of activitie