I'm not sure what you're meaning here. If its about my claim about AQSL sending funds and fighters to affiliates, that is claim that can neither be validated nor dismissed with open-source intelligence. However, we know that affiliates do have affiliate-to-affiliate relationships and we know that the senior leadership does have operational ties to formal and informal affiliates and allies. We also know that AQSL allocates funds to groups and cells plotting to attack the West. I don't think it is too far-fetched to think that AQSL directs funding and fighters to affiliates when needed. For example, we know that operatives were working in Syria at the behest of AQSL during the Iraq War, whose jobs were to move fighters from all over the world into Iraq via Syria. The same is happening today, actually, with operatives acting in this role moving fighters from places like Libya or Yemen and into the fray in Syria. We also know that AQSL sends emissaries to affiliates and allies that act like conduits between the leadership (often called "core AQ") and these groups. The exact details of what these emissaries do, however, is not known to my knowledge. There are two competing views of AQ. I belong to the group that subscribes to the "expansive" view of al-Qaeda. To be brief, this view simply states that AQ is more than just publicly recognised affiliates and that groups need not target the West to be included in the network. I made the claim based on common sense about how the groups operates under this view, as well as from what I've seen and read about the network. There is a lot we do not know about the group and that's sort of the whole idea of being a clandestine organization. Those with access to primary source intelligence might paint a different picture, but they do not operate in the public sector. Those in this sector are left with open-source intelligence and speculation based upon what we think we know about the group.