longwarjournal.org - 1/26/2009
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Members of al Qaeda in Yemen announce the merger with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Center-left is Abu Hareth Muhammad al Awfi; far right is Said Ali al Shihri
In the face of Saudi Arabia's success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to ...
topics.nytimes.com - 1/23/2009
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When Marxists took over the government of southern
Yemen in 1970, many people fled to the north,
and a civil war raged for two decades. The conflict became a proxy conflict in the cold war, with the Soviet Union aiding South Yemen, and United States ...
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Yemen News - Breaking World Yemen News - The New York Times
longwarjournal.org - 1/25/2009
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Said Ali al Shihri, former Guantánamo detainee and
deputy leader of al Qaeda in Yemen. Photo from
The SITE Institute. Two former Guantánamo detainees appear in a newly released al Qaeda propaganda video, according to the SITE ...
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Bill Roggio: Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Monday, 26 January 2009 Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia's al Qaeda organization to form al Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula. Yemeni government supports Hamas. read ...
Guest Post by Tom Kutsch: The Silent Crisis Unfolding in Yemen
The Washington Note —
... Under the leadership of Naser al-Wahishi, al-Qaeda has rebounded spectacularly from the defeats it suffered in the 2003-2005 period at the hands of the Yemeni central government (and its American benefactors) and has become more brazen and sophisticated in its extremism. Its ambitions are evidenced in part by the recent merger of cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, forming al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). ...
About that Saudi Rehabilitation Program
Weekly Standard Blog —
... of al Qaeda’s arm on the Arabian Peninsula. That same al Qaeda branch is the chief reason the Obama administration does not want to send the Yemenis back to their home country. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is particularly strong in Yemen. Besides the 11 former Gitmo detainees, dozens of other terrorists placed on Saudi Arabia’s most wanted list had also been “rehabilitated.” ...
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