“Yemen’s security problems won’t just stay in Yemen.”
This assessment by Christopher Boucek, who studies Yemen as an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, explains why top counterterrorism experts from the CIA were sent to Yemen last year, the Pentagon is training Yemen’s military, and aid to the country is scheduled to more than double.
Journalists Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth examine U.S. efforts in the new Al Qaeda bastion of Yemen.
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