. >> as yonah mentioned, i'm a research fellow at the national defense university. the comments i represent neither represent the position of my institution or the department of defense, my ultimate employer but are the product of my own research and my own individual conclusions. again, delighted to be here today. as we near the one-year anniversary of the operation that eliminated bin laden, i'm here to contend perhaps not as starkly as mary has offered about diverging with her position but i'm here to contend to you rather than overestimating the death of bin laden, we underestimate the way his death has clarified and made more understandable what has been a radical ideology that has prospered under the leadership of a core and unique organization which tried to bring life to five separate dimensions of that particular diverse ideology and has attempted to get its arms around it and channel it in the direction of the aims that mary so eloquently pointed out. i'm here to contend to you bin laden as a personal has been no less relevance and that lenin was in being

with that, yonah, if you will help me, we can give each of the speakers in copy of the book. if nothing else, it is a good paper weeks. -- paperweight. and a good symbol of the tremendous work that professor alexander and the center terrorism studies is responsible here for at the institute a in and day out. i would like to personally thank him for his dedication to all issues of studying all issues of terrorism and doing it in the most professional and academic way. is that you will agree professor alexander is absolutely a world treasure when it comes to these types of issues, and we would not be anywhere near as deep in understanding him without it. please join me in welcoming professor yonah >> i got the ha. >> thank you very much for your generous introduction. i would like to remind the audience, since it has been generous to broadcast this event in the u.s. and abroad, if you could currently turnoff yourself phones if possible. we like music, but not now. we want to thank laura kinney for recording this and making the seminar available almost immediately. i would like