This is on a conversation with my good colleague Bill Rajo of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

Who is safe, Al-Adel?

The man said to be the head of al-Qaeda. Who is he?

Why is he issuing invitations to jihadists around the world to come to

Afghanistan to train?

Why is he in hiding?

What is his relationship to Taliban in residence in Kabul?

Bill answers all those questions and looks to more information about Seyphile Idol, who is reportedly in sanctuary in Iran. Here's Bill Rajo, F.D. More of this later.

Safel Adle is who we believe to be the Amir or the leader, overall leader of al-Qaeda.

He is a long time, he was a founding member of al-Qaeda.

You know, remember when, you know, successive presidents have said al-Qaeda is dead their legacy

leadership which somehow al-Qaeda can't promote from the ranks but that's not

true he safe al-Adel, military commander of the al-Qaeda at points and now he's the Rameer.

He's been a very influential person for al- Qaeda and he's an Egyptian. I believe it came from the

Egyptian Islamic group along withawahiri.

So he's been in this game for four plus decades now.

And he's a dangerous individual.

He's, in my estimation, one of the more thoughtful Al-Qaeda leaders not that Zawahiri or bin

Laden wasn't but he's a good Canada he's well respected within the al-Qaeda

leadership and the reason that he's not we don't really know the answer of whether he's al-Qaeda's a mirror is because of that the

al-Qaeda never announced the death of Zawahiri or his successor.

The U.S. killed Zawahiri, of course, in a drone strike in Kabul.

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