Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The United States's secret war in Yemen

Captured Yemeni rebels. Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife

Journalists everywhere were given a rude break from their vacations when Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab attempted his Christmas Day airplane bombing. Al-Qaeda in Arabia is claiming responsibility for the bombing, and mounting evidence shows that he made contact with them in Yemen. This site has writen extensively about why Yemen would likely cause severe problems for the United States in the coming years, and it's a damn shame to be right on that count.

In the week before Abdulmatallab's airplane bombing, the United States quietly made

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