SENATOR:
(threatening) General.
GENERAL:
We’re almost there, Senator.
The Senator glares at Clark and exits.
GENERAL:
You’ve got to help me here, Lieutenant. Let’s start at the beginning. You said there are now about two hundred al-Queda operatives.
CLARK:
We believe so, sir.
GENERAL:
And you say they are having problems gaining more recruits.
CLARK:
At a local level, no, but for international operations and for attacks against the US, yes.
GENERAL:
So let’s turn it around. Let’s say because of measures we took after 9-11 the threat level from al-Qaida has been reduced to, how did you put it, less than the flu.
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