-ACKERMAN: Isn't it true, General, Al-Qaeda in Iraq formed in 2005?
-PETRAEUS: Senator, I'm not saying when it started. I'm saying merely that Al-Qaeda/Iraq clearly is part of the overall greater Al-Qaeda network.
-ACKERMAN: But they didn't exist --
-PETRAEUS: -- first communications, and there is no question also but that Al-Qaeda/Iraq is a key element in igniting the ethnic sectarian violence.
-PETRAEUS: They have been, in effect, an element that has poured gas on burning embers with the bombing of the Golden Dome Mosque, for example, and with efforts that they have tried recently, for example, bombing the poor Yazidi villages in northwestern Iraq and so forth.
-ACKERMAN: Are they a threat to us?
-PETRAEUS: Al-Qaeda central is a threat to us.
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On September 11th, 2007, six years after 9/11, Gary Ackerman, a Democrat, has to ask if Al-Qaeda is a threat to this country.
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