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Turmoil Spreads to U.S. Embassy in Yemen

Posted on September 13th, 2012

By NASSER ARRABYEE and ALAN COWELL Published: September 13, 2012 SANA, Yemen — Turmoil in the Arab world linked to a contentious video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread on Thursday to Yemen, where hundreds of protesters stormed the United States Embassy, two days after assailants killed the American ambassador in Libya and crowds tried to [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on June 14th, 2011

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U.S. Suspends Guantanamo Prisoner Transfer to Yemen

Posted on January 5th, 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Tuesday suspended the transfer of detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to Yemen as a result of the deteriorating security situation there. President Barack Obama bowed to political pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers not to send any more prisoners to Yemen as a result [...]

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Terror 2.0 by Yemen—The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Posted on January 5th, 2010

Although I don’t agree with everything Jon Stewart says, you have to give him props for being one of the few libs I know of who actually has a sense of humor. He makes some excellent points about our brain dead approach to airport security. ~~John Cronin~~ The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – [...]

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U.S., U.K shut embassies after al Qaeda threat

Posted on January 3rd, 2010

By: Harry Siegel The U.S. closed its embassy in Yemen on Sunday, citing ongoing threats by the al Qaeda group linked to the failed Christmas Day bid to bomb a Detroit-bound flight. “The U.S. Embassy in San’a is closed today, January 3, 2010, in response to ongoing threats by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula … [...]

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GOP leader wants Gitmo open

Posted on December 30th, 2009

Politico 44 By: Matt Negrin House Minority Leader John Boehner on Wednesday echoed a Republican chorus of criticism directed at the Obama administration’s response to the Christmas terror plot, saying Obama should not close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. “It’s time for the president to halt terrorist transfers to other countries, including Yemen, and to [...]

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The Yemeni Front in the War on Terror

Posted on December 30th, 2009

By John Leonard It is difficult to decide which thought is more disturbing regarding the recent terror attack on Northwest Flight 253: that terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nearly succeeded, or the reaction by U.S. officials in the aftermath of the attempted bombing. Janet Napolitano’s ridiculous claim that everything went according to plan was retracted, revised, [...]

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