Yemen Working With al Qaeda
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who have committed these acts and those who harbor them.
– George W. Bush, 2001
Yemen, which was the site of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, now appears to be making deals with al Qaeda terrorists. This comes despite attacks in Yemen and the defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq. President Ali Abdullah Saleh of that country is making moves that should make the US very uneasy. Not to mention the fact that Yemen is just a skip away from Somalia:
In the latest round of negotiations, Saleh reportedly asked the militants to engage in violence against the southern mobility movement. The southern uprising is bent on achieving the independence of South Yemen and is a substantial threat to Saleh’s grip on power. Tariq al Fahdli was present at the meeting, and at a later meeting in Abyan, militants brandished an official order directing the military to supply the mercenary group with arms and ammunition. Fahdli fought alongside bin Laden in Afghanistan and has been accused of complicity in the 1992 Aden hotel bombing, the first al Qaeda attack that targeted American troops.
February 12th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Yemen and Somalia will be to the 2010s what Afghanistan was in the 1990s.