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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

Your parents' al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today.

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.