According to a recently released State Department Country Report on Terrorism "al-Qaida is not the organization it was four years ago". Many of al-Qaida's leaders have been arrested or killed. Ambassador Henry Crumpton, the U-S State department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, says that al-Qaida has had to shift its strategy, focusing now on propaganda.

The State Department report says that al-Qaida and the terrorist cells al-Qaida sponsored around the world are still a threat. They have a "proven ability to adapt" and may be a "resilient enemy for years to come." How much of a threat does al-Qaida remain?

Our Guests:

  Walid Phares, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and author of the new book: "Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America".  

  Dana Dillon, a senior policy analyst in the Asia Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation. 

  Sajjan Gohel, director of International Security, at the Asia Pacific Foundation.

  Lawrence Wright, a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of the book on al-Qaida, “The Looming Tower,” due this summer.

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