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Today's Frontline: Understanding Yemen’s Al Qaeda Threat
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/al-qaeda-in-yemen/understanding-yemens-al-qaeda-threat/The link includes a good round table talk about the U.S. in Yemen, the use of drones and how we are creating more terrorists.
In tonight’s special report, Al Qaeda in Yemen, FRONTLINE travels deep into Yemen’s radical heartland to investigate how Al Qaeda and affiliated militants have seized control of parts of southern Yemen — and are winning some popular support.
Over the last few years, Yemen has emerged as the breeding grounds for some of the most high-profile plans to attack the U.S. homeland. But few understand how Yemen became Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) stronghold, or how America’s escalating war in the country is playing out on the ground.
FRONTLINE turned to 11 experts — diplomats, journalists working on the ground, academics, Yemeni activists and counterterrorism analysts — to understand the debates at the heart of these questions.
Over the last few years, Yemen has emerged as the breeding grounds for some of the most high-profile plans to attack the U.S. homeland. But few understand how Yemen became Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s (AQAP) stronghold, or how America’s escalating war in the country is playing out on the ground.
FRONTLINE turned to 11 experts — diplomats, journalists working on the ground, academics, Yemeni activists and counterterrorism analysts — to understand the debates at the heart of these questions.
