A new al-Qaida video is out and it shows a Yemen gathering of numerous top-level agents and perhaps 100 armed fighters. Nasir al-Wuhayshi, known as al-Qaida’s crown prince, appears prominently in the video, and declares, “We must eliminate the cross. ... The bearer of the cross is America!” CNN notes that “the CIA and the Pentagon either didn’t know about [the meeting] or couldn’t get a drone there in time to strike,” though there may be other intelligence reasons for not taking a shot. Drone strikes in Yemen are a relatively common occurrence, as the Obama administration has chosen those pinpricks as its preferred method of battle. But the president has also made a bad habit of spiking the football after dispatching Osama bin Laden, as if that was the end of al-Qaida. This brash meeting should make clear, however, that the danger is clear and present.