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Home ' height=25> PolicyWatch #1551 By Gregory Johnsen July 14, 2009 Recent reports suggesting that al-Qaeda fighters are leaving Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the group has suffered serious setbacks, have renewed international concerns that Yemen is reemerging once again as a major ...
Christians Denied Funerals in Yemen Ethiopian Immigrants Must Convert to Islam
orato.com — Millions of Ethiopian Christian immigrants are living under difficult social, cultural and economic conditions in Yemen. Famine,... starvation, unemployment, torture, abuse, and lack of freedom and democracy in their birth country force them to migrate ... (more) Christians Denied Funerals in Yemen Ethiopian Immigrants ...
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Waning Vigilance: al Qaeda's Resurgence in Yemen
Counterterrorism Blog — ... agenda as part of the Bush administration's desire to mold a new Middle East. For Yemen, attention was increasingly diverted by a five-year-old sectarian civil war in the north and more recently by threats of secession from the south. Over the next two years of relative calm, the threat from al-Qaeda, while not necessarily forgotten, was certainly ignored. Tourism flourished, and the U.S. State Department initiated a Yemen study-abroad program. To read the rest of the piece, click here:

Guest Post by Tom Kutsch: The Silent Crisis Unfolding in Yemen
The Washington Note — ... is an invaluable resource for developments in Yemen) has argued, the central government in Yemen considers these issues, not al-Qaeda, to be the preeminent threats to its solubility. ...

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