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... Yemen port of Aden, killing 17 U.S. sailors. "Most people say [al-Qaida is] growing, and its presence has been felt more strongly in Yemen" as of late, said Murdock. A destabilized government in Yemen has enabled al-Qaida to take root there and operate without the scrutiny of ...
Updated 5:42pm ET The link between the two alleged al-Qaida militants killed in Monday's raid in Yemen and the security threats that led U.S. and other foreign embassies to close remains unconfirmed. The Associated Press reports that in Monday's clashes, Yemeni security forces attacked a ...
... the government, from journalists, tribesmen, everyone really told me the same thing. And that is there is a great and, I think, growing fear in Yemen that, if the al-Qaida problem were to go away, U.S. aid and U.S. interest in Yemen would also go away. GWEN ...
... quiet visit to Yemen's president by U.S. regional military commander Gen. David Petraeus, who delivered a message from President Obama of support for Yemen's unity and counterrorism efforts. Last week, the NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown talked to Barbara Bodine, who was U.S. ambassador to Yemen from ...
... of a covert war, you might say. The -- the Americans are -- are -- have acknowledged to -- to helping the Yemenis with intelligence and other assistance. The Yemenis on the ground claim that they have seen American jets and missiles hitting Yemeni territories, but both the Americans and Yemenis' government has denied ...
... would agree that, if that was all we did, we would not be solving the problem. We need to get -- we need to work with Yemen -- and I would agree with the professor -- with the international community to try to work on those elements of legitimacy, as opposed to just ...
HARI SREENIVASAN: Yemen vowed today to step up its hunt for al-Qaida insurgents after the attempted airliner bombing in the U.S. The government said 29 suspects have been arrested since the incident on Christmas Day. They were not accused of any direct ties to the bomb plot. Instead ...
Yemeni forces backed by U.S. intelligence attacked alleged al-Qaida hide-outs in eastern Yemen early Thursday, killing more than 30 militants, Yemeni security officials have told news organizations. Reports are surfacing that a Muslim cleric linked to the accused Fort Hood gunman, may have been among those targeted ...
... debate within -- here in the U.S. about doing even more? CHRISTOPHER BOUCEK: Oh, I think so. I think -- and I would hate to underestimate Yemen's ability to absorb foreign assistance. But the foreign assistance Yemen gets is grossly disproportionate to the amount of military assistance that has been ...
... the Washington Post.A defense official, speaking anonymously, told the Washington Post the decision was largely based on political advantages to be made with the Yemeni government."We haven't been comfortable with Yemen's track record on Guantanamo detainees," the official said, in reference to some ten other Yemeni ...
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