ANNOUNCER: Melinda Benson from Kingsley, Pennsylvania, asks, "How does the al Qaeda operate?"</s>PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORIST ANALYST: Al Qaeda operates in the following manner: Bin Laden decides the general policy objectives of the group, then those matters are put before various committees, which are below bin Laden. There's a military committee. There's a religious committee. There's a media affairs committee. And there's a business committee. And then bin Laden's views are disseminated further down the chain of command to followers, many of whom have never actually met with bin Laden.
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