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Fight Against Terrorism Could Shift to Yemen
Joshua Kucera
A weak central government and high unemployment make Yemen attractive to al Qaeda and its recruits
In the wake of the airplane bombing attempt over
In the case of the would-be bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, those
extremists would seem to be in
Over the past year,
The question is, what can -- or should --
Its position is
roughly analogous to that of
American assistance now focuses on low-profile military aid like the
training of Yemeni commandos by U.S. Special Forces and the sharing of
intelligence and targeting data. Military aid has been significantly
increased, to
What form that increased attention will take is not clear. Sen.
More useful, experts say, would be U.S. aid that addressed
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