Crocker Says al Qaeda On Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Greater Threat Than Iraq

Joe Biden (D-Delaware): Mr. Ambassador, is Al Qaeda a greater threat to US interests in Iraq, or in the Afghan-Pakistan border region?

Ambassador Ryan Crocker: Mr. Chairman, al Qaeda is a strategic threat to the United States wherever it is…

Biden: Where is most if it?…Which would you pick?

Crocker: I would therefore pick Al Qaeda in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.