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OBAMA'S NEW WAR OF THE WEEK
NY Times - In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen.
The Pentagon is spending more than $70 million over the next 18 months, and using teams of Special Forces, to train and equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces, more than doubling previous military aid levels. . .
With fears also growing of a resurgent Islamist extremism in nearby Somalia and East Africa, administration officials and American lawmakers said Yemen could become Al Qaeda's next operational and training hub, rivaling the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan where the organization's top leaders operate. . .
Yemen's remote areas are notoriously lawless, but the country's chaos has worsened in the past two years, as the government struggles with an armed rebellion in the northwest and a rising secessionist movement in the south. Yemen is running out of oil, and the government's dwindling finances have affected its ability to strike at Al Qaeda.
PS: America is also still fighting its war in Iraq, has escalated its war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, continues to aid Israel in its war against Palestine, and periodically threatens war against Iran. - TPR
The Pentagon is spending more than $70 million over the next 18 months, and using teams of Special Forces, to train and equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces, more than doubling previous military aid levels. . .
With fears also growing of a resurgent Islamist extremism in nearby Somalia and East Africa, administration officials and American lawmakers said Yemen could become Al Qaeda's next operational and training hub, rivaling the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan where the organization's top leaders operate. . .
Yemen's remote areas are notoriously lawless, but the country's chaos has worsened in the past two years, as the government struggles with an armed rebellion in the northwest and a rising secessionist movement in the south. Yemen is running out of oil, and the government's dwindling finances have affected its ability to strike at Al Qaeda.
PS: America is also still fighting its war in Iraq, has escalated its war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, continues to aid Israel in its war against Palestine, and periodically threatens war against Iran. - TPR
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Yemen is the only republic on the Arabian peninsula. With 23 million it has half the peninsula's population, and with a sixth of the population living on less than $1.25 a day its main export is laborers to its neighbor Saudi Arabia. For many years after the end of British colonial rule South Yemen was under Marxist rule, but they were unable to create a modern economy. In recent years it has been staggering under the effects of IMF shock therapy. Much of the population is battle-hardened from several civil wars.
This could be a serious struggle.
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