cnn reported that the security situation in yemen hasdi tieror rated. earlier this week, "time" magazine reported that 2/3 of the company is out of government control and al qaeda is turning the laws will mountain area of yemen into a new staging area. u.s. counterterrorism officials believe that al qaeda's presence in yemen threatens to turn the country with into a dangerous place for plotting attacks. al qaeda in yemen attacked the u.s. embassy with vehicle bombs, killing 10 guards and civilians. at that time, -- since that time, al qaeda's posture in yemen has grown stronger. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has resulted. we've seen the consequence of these developments. last august, a yes, ma'amny al qaeda group detonated a bomb to try to assassinate the prince he pretended to be an al qaeda defector. an article i'm submitting from the record from reuters, at least one detainee from guantanamo bay has been released to yemen and at least 26 others have been cleared to return according to a list at the detention facility posted in arabic and pashtu.

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base from which a series of attacks on american national security objectives is conducted in africa, yemen and finally in the united states. therefore, to intervene in afghanistan became an issue of national security. as fundamentalist jihadi evolves, afghanistan also became a place with a conflict between fundamentalist jihad and the other institutions in the muslim world and security of the whole world came to be tested. so, now afghanistan as a center of terrorist or jihadi activities is in a position where it threatens fundamentally the cohesion of pakistan where it threatens an directly the security of india where this and fundamentalist islam will go. the muslim regions of russia, some portions of china and even iran. is it is now a problem in which the future security of the world, it's fundamentally involved. now we are there exclusively and that is a condition but we cannot remedy it in a month. the president stated as a candidate and stated several times a person it's one that he considers afghanistan a war of mississippi. and i agree with it. he has added an troops deployed with

and not just with ose who travel to somalia, but those who travel to, s yemen and maybe a trador those that travel to pakistan, fatah. we had an indidual from ne york trained in the cam -- >> in pakistan? >> in an but the participated in operation as you or others pointed out i afghantan and then returned -- tualas returned to the united states, but the concern would be theame. >> is there any evidence there is any intention from elbout to send these recruits back to the s. for this purpose? >> i tnk at this jure i would defer to mike on this, but i think that we have seen some formatnhat saw leaders uld le to undertake operatns outside of somalia but no hard information or eviden that has been effectively pursued. i would dever -- >> dyou nt to add anythin mr. leiter? >> i think that bald is right. there is l. chabad a the leadership is early associate with al qaeda elements in somalia and it is those outside elements we fee will push our chabad members -- to change theiroc. >> we are watching that to th best oour ability. >> let me ask different question, secretary napolitano, relate

mentioned by intelligence officials in the same breath as the tribal areas of pakistan and also a yement is so disturbing that these are american citizens. the fare must be that the americans will come back to the u.s. to launch attacks here. >> that is correct. fear is that they will bring back some of these tactics to this country. on the eve of the inauguration, there was a homeland security bulletin that was launched -- or the catalyst was the fear that one of these americans had come back to launch a suicide attack to disrupt the inauguration. on capitol hill this week, we had a hearing, which dealt specifically with the najibullah zazi case in new york and denver, and it also talked about this group. >> of course, the fear is that it these americans are traveling overseas for training, they may use this training to come back and attacked our homeland. >> this idea is not unprecedented because earlier this year in australia, the authorities there broke up what they believe to be a plot to launch a suicide attack in melbourne, australia, by this group. australia is also a country wh

if they are looking for terrorists, then i would tell them, look in somalia, look in yemen, look all i mean, what are we doing? what is this all about? >> isn't it a better strategy, though, to find terrorists by using wiretapping and moles in these places, the way we've done it in the united states. we found out a lot about terrorist attempts here with that. >> well, this whole thing, from the very beginning, go back to 2001, it was like, what was the point anyway? because afghanistan, it's impossible to sort of build a country there. a functioning country, like we would define it. it's been defined as the second most failed state in the world, next to maybe somalia. but obama gets some of the blame here. i know he just became president, but he raised expectations on this during the campaign, for a strategic, political reason during the campaign. and i think a lot of us saw this coming during the campaign. >> and what do you mean? >> he wanted to be the anti-iraq war candidate, not the anti-war candidate. so, by contrast, he would say, i'm against the war in iraq, but i want to do i

if they are looking for terrorists, then i would tell them, look in somalia, look in yemen, look all mean, what are we doing? what is this all about? >> isn't it a better strategy, though, to find terrorists by using wiretapping and moles in these places, the way we've done it in the united states. we found out a lot about terrorist attempts here with that. >> well, this whole thing, from the very beginning, go back to 2001, it was like, what was the point anyway? because afghanistan, it's impossible to sort of build a country there. a functioning country, like we would define it. it's been defined as the second most failed state in the world, next to maybe somalia. but obama gets some of the blame here. i know he just became president, but he raised expectations on this during the campaign, for a strategic, political reason during the campaign. and i think a lot of us saw this coming during the campaign. >> and what do you mean? >> he wanted to be the anti-iraq war candidate, not the anti-war candidate. so, by contrast, he would say, i'm against the war in iraq, but i want to do it