UPI
Wednesday, Dec 30th, 2009
All the signs are that the Obama administration is cranking up its secret war against al-Qaida in Yemen.
The acknowledgement of increasing intelligence
cooperation with the beleaguered Sanaa regime, which resulted in a
string of attacks on the jihadists’ bases in which some 50-60
operatives were reported killed or captured over the last two weeks, is
a strong indication that the Americans are showing a new determination
to eliminate the militants who call themselves al-Qaida in the Arabian
Peninsula.
A report carried by The New York Times Monday that the United States
has opened a “largely covert front” against al-Qaida in
Yemen underlines how Washington perceives the organization to be a
serious threat not only to the Sanaa government, battered by a plethora
of crises, but to the West, and the United States in particular.
The bizarre — and still largely unexplained — attempt by
a Nigerian engineering student, son of his country’s leading
banker, to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight from
Amsterdam on Christmas Day has added to U.S. unease about
al-Qaeda’s swelling resurgence in Yemen, ancestral homeland of
Osama bin Laden.
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