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اليمن والقاعدة : الحرب الأميركية في جزيرة العرب
\"في الحادي عشر من أيلول/ سبتمبر كانت الولايات المتحدة بلا سفير في اليمن، إذ غاورت بودين قبل أسبوعين من الهجمات، ولم يعين الكونغرس مرشح كلينتون للمنصب في اليمن بدلا عنها، ولعدم وجود أحد يفسر سلوكه للإدارة الجديدة في واشنطن خشي صالح من أن الولايات المتحدة سوف تفعل شيئا دراماتيكيا، إذ كانت طاحونة الإشاعات الدبلوماسية قد بدأت تدور فعلا بأحاديث عن مشاحنات حادة بين المسؤولين الأميركيين وحلفاء أساسيين، فقال وزير خارجية بوش ريتشارد أرميتاج ذو الطبع المتنمر لقائد الإستخبارات الباكستانية: أن الولايات المتحدة سوف \"تقصفها حتى تعود إلى العصر الحجري\" إذا لم تتعاون، واقترح محللون آخرون في السي إن إن والأم إس أن بي سي أن اليمن هي الهدف التالي المنطقي بعد أفغانستان، وفجأة صارت تعليقات صالح على الجزيرة قبل أسبوع من الهجوم تبدو أكثر شرا، فآخر مرة صارع فيها الولايات المتحدة كانت في أثناء حرب الخليج عام 1990، وأركع اليمن يومها قطع المساعدات من قبل الولايات المتحدة، السعودية، والكويت، ولكن الولايات المتحدة كانت نتحدث عن الردود الإقتصادية هذه المرة، ولم يقدم صهر صالح ذو اللسان اللطيف، عبد الوهاب الهجري، سفير اليمن المقلل من شأنه في الولايات المتحدة، عونا مفيدا، إذ كان جورج بوش غير قابل للتوقع، فيما مضى عليه أكثر من تسعة شهور في المنصب والولايات المتحدة لم تتعرض في يوم لهجوم كهذا.
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The end of Yemen
Combine that with the fact that Yemen has a shrinking economic pie — exports are largely limited to the oil and gas fields in Marib, Shabwa, and Hadramawt — and the recipe is in place for years of conflict to come. [...]for a variety of reasons, from counterterrorism to humanitarian and refugee concerns to Red Sea shipping lanes, the U.S. is going to have to deal with many of them. The nation-state system is the key building block of diplomacy, international relations, and national security.
Web Resource
Welcome to Qaedastan
In 2010, Yemen will celebrate the 20th anniversary of national unification. But it won't be much of a party: This could well be the year Yemen comes apart. Yemen has so many dire problems that its easy to be overwhelmed. Al Qaeda is growing in prominence, a Shiite rebellion is expanding in the north, and the threat of secession is renewed in the south. But Yemen's first two troubles, security and governance, are a combustible mix -- and together they might explode in 2010 if al Qaeda consolidates its gains by taking advantage of a government in disarray. Instead of imploding, Yemen is going to explode. By the time Obama and his team cobble together a smarter response, the time for prevention will have passed and their only option will be mopping up the mess.
Magazine Article
Assault on Yemen’s Al Hudaydah Would Be Catastrophic
The United States should do everything in its power to avert the looming military confrontation in Yemen.
Newspaper Article
The wrong man for the C.I.A
For all of the [Obama] administration's foreign policy successes -- from ending the war in Iraq to killing Osama Bin Laden -- the most enduring policy legacy of the past four years may well turn out to be an approach to counterterrorism that American officials call the \"Yemen model,\" a mixture of drone strikes and Special Forces raids targeting Al-Qaeda leaders. Mr. [John O. Brennan]'s assertion was either shockingly naive or deliberately misleading. Testimonies from Qaeda fighters and interviews I and local journalists have conducted across Yemen attest to the centrality of civilian casualties in explaining Al- Qaeda's rapid growth there. The United States is killing women, children and members of key tribes. \"Each time they kill a tribesman, they create more fighters for Al-Qaeda,\" one Yemeni explained to me over tea in Sana'a, the capital, last month. Another told CNN, after a failed strike, \"I would not be surprised if a hundred tribesmen joined Al-Qaeda as a result of the latest drone mistake.\" The strikes Mr. Brennan asks the president to approve frequently lead to civilian casualties. Indeed, the first strike Mr. Obama ordered on Yemen, in December 2009, destroyed a Bedouin village that was mistaken for a terrorist training camp. American missiles killed more than 50 people, including 35 women and children. Watching that strike live on a grainy feed the military calls Kill TV, Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon's top lawyer, later admitted, \"if I were Catholic, I'd have to go to confession.\"
Newspaper Article
The Wrong Man for the C.I.A
WITH the resignation of David H. Petraeus, President Obama now has a chance to appoint a new C.I.A. director. Unfortunately, one of the leading candidates for the job is John O. Brennan, who is largely responsible for America's...
Newspaper Article