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As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat.

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

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

By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

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

If the Islamic State is losing, if they are defeated in Iraq and Syria, or in Libya, which is maybe their most dangerous and most well-developed cell today, then they won't inspire nearly so many attacks.

Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.