I'm John Batchel with my very good colleague, Bill Razio, Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

He keeps the Long Word Journal with many of the experts at FDD who will join us today to comment on setting the scene in various parts of the jihad.

Bill is a write-up about a $10 million reward

for an al-Qaeda outfit in the Indian subcontinent.

This is the Kurosan province of ISIS.

It includes India and Pakistan

and reaches up to Afghanistan.

However, the jihadist point that I want to make here is that they're not, they haven't retired.

They haven't accepted defeat and gone home and rebuilding their lives.

They're still looking for opportunities everywhere.

And I mentioned, Bill, I watched a French submarine thriller over the weekend on one of the cable television sets. I'd never seen a French thriller with a submarine before. They have a nuclear weapon. They have a ballistic missile submarine. They have an attack boat. That's actually their possession. France is one of the club of people who keep nuclear weapons.

This particular plot turned on jihadists purchasing for $100 million an old rusted out Soviet ballistic missile submarine that they then engineered to launch a missile at France.

Now, it's quite fantastic, but France regarded it as a launch by the then restive and

aggressive Russian Federation, as we see it now, attacking in Finland, threatening Poland.

And France was ready to respond with a nuclear weapon on Russia. The plot spilled itself out, and I thought at the end of the movie,

you know, France made this movie because they think jihad's the threat. Jihad is the threat, Bill.

Do I say that correctly, or am I old-fashioned here?

No, well, John, we'd be considered old-fashioned because the global war on terror no longer exists,

according to, you know, most D.C. policymakers and the intelligentsia. But we unfortunately can't avoid this. These terrorist organizations remain a threat.

You know, one of the warnings I made during the U.S.

withdrawal from Afghanistan or when we left Iraq, you know, is just because we want a war

to end doesn't mean our enemy thinks the war is over in al-Qaeda, the Islamic State,

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