So while August Kreis may be calling, there is no sign that al Qaeda is listening.
Most of the skepticism over Iranian involvement with al-Qaeda has centered around the fact that Iran is ruled by a Shia Islamic theocracy, whereas al-Qaeda is a Sunni Wahhabi Islamic group.
The brutal Hussein regime is a faded memory and al-Qaeda is on its back.
He developed a strategy that made clear that our number-one priority, the reason why we are in Afghanistan, is because of al Qaeda, and that our number-one objective for our mission in Afghanistan is to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately defeat al Qaeda, and that all other objectives that are secondary to that help support the primary objective.
Aafia Siddiqui is an al Qaeda operative and facilitator, she attended colleges in the Boston area, and is believed to have left Boston in January of 2003.
Bernard Squarcini, head of French intelligence, says France is al-Qaeda's second biggest target after America.
And the focus of that operation, of the U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, is on al Qaeda.
U.S. intelligence officials believe al Qaeda is attempting to infiltrate the Syrian opposition forces without their knowledge.
The chopper crashed in South Waziristan, where the Pakistani military is battling al Qaeda and Taliban militants.
So this does not mean that we are putting down our guard, as far as al Qaeda is concerned.
Saudi and U.S. officials have said al Qaeda is suspected in the attacks.
I've always said that our fight is with al Qaeda and its affiliates, not with Islam or any other religion.
Mr Mowatt-Larssen may be wrong to suspect that al-Qaeda is playing a long game to stage a spectacular attack on America.
These trends are not incompatible: al-Qaeda is as much a movement as a coherent organisation, which makes judgments about its fortunes tricky.
The memo says, among other things, that Iraq and Afghanistan will be a "long, hard slog", and that the US record against al-Qaeda is mixed.
Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution concludes that al-Qaeda is more likely to continue planning its attacks without regard to America's electoral timetable or outcome.
While political analysts and international relations experts warn that the threat of Al-Qaeda is not gone, El-Erian and PIMCO seem to have decided what side of the debate they stand on.
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"Let me just say both President Bush and President Obama have made clear that we will go after al Qaeda wherever al Qaeda is and we will continue to pursue them, " the defense chief said.
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They may find it useful to exchange equipment, exchange tactics but they are not the same organisation and I think the suggestion that by going into Iraq we are exposing ourselves to additional threat from al-Qaeda is probably not correct.
Mr. Obama said for the first time that the 2001 congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force adopted after the Sept. 11 attacks should be revised and eventually repealed to recognize that al Qaeda is a terror organization on the path to defeat.
Senior U.S. officials said al Qaeda operations chief, Saif al-Adel, is one of several al Qaeda leaders believed to be in Iran.
And you keep mentioning that the U.S. goal is to fight al Qaeda.
And it was a Seal team that took part in this raid last week against what we're told is an al-Qaeda safe house or a compound.
"The end of the global threat al Qaeda poses is now as visible as it is foreseeable, " Deputy National Security AdviserJuan Zarate told London's Daily Telegraph in May 2008 after the Iraq success.
The United States, which anyway needs the help of men like Mr Akaev to prosecute its war against al-Qaeda, is often disinclined to criticise, partly because some of the measures are directly modelled on American ones.
American authorities appear to have raised their threat level as a wartime precaution, rather than in response to a specific threat, though the Federal Bureau of Investigation gave warning last week that a particularly dangerous al-Qaeda suspect is on the loose and may try to slip into the country.
Although the West is concerned about the threat of al-Qaeda - especially in the south of the country - it is not a good reason to keep Mr Saleh in power, said another diplomat in the capital.
"I don't think anyone views this guy as someone who is plugged in to al Qaeda, " the official said.
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