as you can see, or if you have not met mrs. weber, you know that she is not a small woman. very tall. so you see why we all came out like that. everybody here -- i believe you have worked with her, or as we call her, madear. inside, it is a different story. where we came from, we did not have a lot of males around, but as you can see, she has raised a whole lot of them, and everybody is doing good, and everybody would like to thank you all for everything you have done and for allowing the name to continue on like that. so thank you very much. [applause] >> i am just going to pick it up. in the great-grandson of always westbrook. -- i and the great-grandson of -- i am the great-grandson of eloise westbrook. she has created a great lineage. for the people who have not had somebody to fight for them, she was the voice of reason for people who did not have a voice, and i say today, to everyone who made this possible, the fight is not over. we still have to continue the good fight. i am an iraqi veteran. a couple of years ago, myself, i was homeless. now, i am getting help. we h

as you can see, or if you have not met mrs. weber, you know that she is not a small woman. very tall. so you see why we all came out like that. everybody here -- i believe you everybody here -- i believe you have worked with her, or a

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as you can see, or if you have not met mrs. weber, you know that she is not a small woman. very tall. so you see why we all came out like that. everybody here -- i believe you have worked with her, or as we call her, madear. inside, it is a different story. where we came from, we did not have a lot of males around, but as you can see, she has raised a whole lot of them, and everybody is doing good, and everybody would like to thank you all for everything you have done and for allowing the name to continue on like that. so thank you very much. [applause] >> i am just going to pick it up. in the great-grandson of always westbrook.

>> i do have a question for mr. weber and lugar. in reading this last night, the thought occurred to me about the deployment of special operation it it became necessary. is the exception in the opinion, that is a southern term for both of you [laughter] is it your opinion that the security of personnel in vader forces could be construed to be broad enough to get the latitude to deploy it team for a specific targeted mission and bring them out, or would they have to come to the congress for approval of that? >> it would be my reading of this amendment that there is no terminology's in this amendment that address national command authority. >> so the answer is that restriction would not exist by virtue of this plan? >> my reading of it certainly would not. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> can you clarify the change in language were looking for? amendment. web's >> page two of the web amendment. the words supporting would be changed to read participating in n.abilization caria senator anddurbin. >>in. -- senator durbin. >> i am sorry to

mr. coll for his opening statement. >> randy weber clark and members of the opportunity thank you for the opportunity to testify. almost a decade after the september 11th attacks the threat to the united states and the related groups is diminishing but remains a persistent. most encouraging the al qaeda field politically and by doing so isolated itself, its violence in the absence of constructive ideas and programs caused populations to turn away on the degette potential when the recruitment of fund-raising the death of some of the mud and will challenge them to the leadership succession crisis in al qaeda history. group's claims on the grievances and imaginations of disenfranchised muslims is waning. yet no terrorist organization requires the following to inflict substantial disruptive damage. al qaeda remains capable from time to time of killing dozens and hundreds of citizens at once including on american soil as evidence from recent plotting makes clear. it's already been made of the zazi case and the near miss on northwest flight 253. both of these involve safe havens abroad with pak