In the gloomiest internal assessment of Yemen’s security yet, he said jihadis from across the Arab world are hiding in the lawless hills of Shabwa province where the so-called Christmas Day “underwear bomber” is thought to have been trained, its governor, Ali Hasan al-Ahmadi, said.
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“There are dozens of Saudi and Egyptian al-Qaeda militants who came to the province,” said Shabwa’s governor, Ali Hasan al-Ahmadi…
A large-scale al-Qaeda presence in Yemen could be more dangerous to the region than in Afghanistan. Yemen is a short boat ride from Somalia, a state that has already failed, and is deeply impoverished.
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