The dangerous game the US is playing in the north of Yemen could well draw in the Iranians because this is Shiites being exterminated, and it gets covered a lot on Iranian state television.
FORBES: Record Oil Prices: A Ways To Go, But Time To Get There
But ever since North and South Yemen united in 1990, the central government in Sanaa has been slowly waking up to the island's potential.
So there are few recent examples of mergers between nation-states (North and South Yemen and the two Germanies are rare exceptions) but many of secession.
Under the agreed evacuation plan most of the PLO fighters will go to Cyprus and then be dispersed to Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North and South Yemen, Tunisia and Greece.
Al Qaeda franchises in such places as Yemen and North Africa, which have turned to organized crimes like kidnapping, are now on their own more than ever.
It has also crucially gone on offense, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Yemen and North Africa, keeping foreign terrorists on the run and making it harder to plot attacks on the U.S. homeland.
Civil liberties groups have protested against the requirement that the male citizens of certain countries with links to terrorism, such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and North Korea, register and be fingerprinted at immigration offices.
Secessionists have always said they are occupied by the north, a drag on southern Yemen's more plentiful resources, such as its oil and fisheries.
The group's affiliates and offshoots first in North Africa, then Iraq, Yemen and Pakistan took up the torch of jihad and operated largely on their own.
Unnamed Saudi officials quoted in The New York Times describe al-Ghamdi as a militant cleric from the same tribe as several of the aircraft hijackers of September 11 -- a tribe from Saudi Arabia's Asir Province, north of the Saudi border with Yemen.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney comments on the bizarre US-sends-North-Korean-Scuds-to-Yemen incident on Fox News.
The region extends from Egypt to Pakistan and covers countries as far north as Kazakhstan and as far south as Yemen.
In other countries, such as Yemen, Somalia or portions of North Africa, the Defense Department will handle the drone strikes as regular military operations.
Syria, Yemen, Libya and Egypt have also purchased North Korean missile components in recent years, U.S. officials say.
According to press reports, Secretary of State Colin Powell decided to release the North Korean ship and allow it to deliver its Scuds to Yemen.
Many al-Qaeda recruits who originally travelled to Pakistan now reckon they should carry on the fight elsewhere, in loosely affiliated groups such as AQAP in Yemen, Somalia's al-Shabab or north Africa's al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Such an attack has one other attraction: By bringing a Scud-type missile - of which there are thousands around the world, including the dozen or so North Korea delivered to Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland, Yemen , a few years back - near the enemy's shoreline, strategic warning can be kept to an absolute minimum.
Southern Yemen, a separate country before unification with the more populous north in 1991, has been increasingly racked by separatist unrest.
The episode with Yemen whose government had initially denied any knowledge of the North Korean missile shipment offers an even more alarming prospect: What if the rogue state enabled terrorists to get their hands on a missile and its launcher?
The episode with Yemen -- whose government had initially denied any knowledge of the North Korean missile shipment -- offers an even more alarming prospect: What if the rogue state enabled terrorists to get their hands on a missile and its launcher?
Correspondents say the security situation in Yemen is complicated by an abundance of firearms, an insurgency in the north and a secessionist movement in the south.
BBC: Yemen instability poses a 'global threat', says Clinton
North Korea continued selling missiles to any customer willing to pay including Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, Libya and Syria.
But even as we look as -- took the fight to core Al Qaeda in the FATA, we were cognizant of an evolving threat posed by affiliates like AQAP in Yemen, al-Shabaab in Somalia, AQI in Iraq and Syria and AQIM in North Africa.
The unrest in Yemen began in 2011 as the population got caught up in the Arab Spring uprisings that swept North Africa and the Middle East.
应用推荐