NORAH ODONNELL Obamas bin Laden success challenged by current issues Even Jimmy Carter would have given

n that order, Romney said Monday, comparing to last one-term president (aside from Bush 41 The narrative is out there where the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he had advised the president not to go forward with this raid, even VP Biden said the raid was too risky Take out bin laden get intelligence This has now become a political issue Nothing public on presidents schedule today, behind the scenes meetings with SecDef, briefing, no threat today, no specific plots It should be a pretty quiet day here at the White House Democrats generally been accused of being Dovish on foreign policy, weak on foreign policy Like in China with Chen Wung Dong Mitt Romney has very few foreign policy credentials, so that could be a strong contrast point, certainly one of the strengths President Obama wants to play up when he has a record on the economy that can be challenged by Mitt Romney No signs of a deal with China biggest threat to U.S.-China relations in 20 years, certainly since Tienamen Square Need help with issues on Iran, Syria and North Korea, since China has permanent seat on Sec Council What I think might happen is something like allowing chen to get a medical parole

MJ GOHEL Fear of terrorism replaced by complacency Al Qaida, the central organization of bin laden, was dismantled and destroyed soon after 9/11, by the superb work of the U.s. security and intelligence services, and bin laden went into hiding Al Qaida is not the only terrorist group out there in Reality, there is a global jihad movement composed of many automonmous groups together with semiautonoimous cells, all bonded together by a common idealogy: a hatred for the west and its democratic allies such as India and Israel and its desire to impose fundamentalist Islam Bin ladens greatest contribution, besides the atrocity of 9/11, has been his legacy. He franchisde AQ in many ways. The threat is fragmented Lakshmi toybu in Pakistan Pakistan Taliban, mullah omar talliban, al haqqani network,

AQ in Arabian Penninula, Magreb, Boko Haram, al Shabaab in Somalia Lone wolf terrorists The threat is there British govt announced this week deploying batteries of surface-to-air missiles to roofs of buildings in London in preparation of Olympics thats an indication of how great the threat still is It was much simpler when there was one organization and one could go after them and eliminate them. Osamas key leaders have been eliminated: Now theyre spread out over the world Faisal Shabad intended to blow up Time Square 2 years ago today The security services on the one hand have been very efficient in thwarting plots, which has made us a little bit complacent, and weve also been lucky. We tend to think the threat has gone away, but its still very much out there.

JOHN KING Everything is fair, The Obama team believes this is going to be a very close election Gov. Romney did say he disagreed in sending troops across border to Pakistan But a lot of people said that The president deserves credit on this day, so do the SEALs, so do the intelligence analyst The president said yes, and now hes going to use it politically. Some find that unseemly, but welcome to politics. All is fair game. Officials at DHS In an odd way this makes their job harder. The big organization theyve been watching for years, their elader is dead, leadership is scattered, ability to launch 9/11 attack is all but eliminated Worry about lone wolves, Arabian peninsula Lots of chatter recently about anniversary attack Intel has a different kind of a job now because theyre looking for smaller pieces He has a huge foreign policy challenge right now with dissidents in China. Syria, Iran,

The one thing we do know, is its very hard for Republicans to use their usual Democrats are soft on National Security Obama giving Romney Massachusetts treatment, (repubs to Dukakis, repubs to John Kerry,) Hes going to take advantage of this, and down the road

JJ GREEN al-Qaida plots still out there al-Qaida has always been a problem. They werent a problem because of bin Laden. They werent a problem because of necessarily where they were. They were a problem because they had lots and lots of lots of off-the-shelf plots that had been developed, and there were people who were well-versed in pulling them off the threat essentially is the same A lot of al-Qaida operatives have been removed from the picture, but those plots are still out there, Theyre still trying to recruit lone wolves to pull those off Thats what the intelligence community was saying for years: It doesnt matter whether bin Laden is killed or not. This organization is on that track now.