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Brian O’Neill of Always Judged Guilty has an op-ed on Yemen and the future – post AQAP strikes on the Huthis – in the National. You should read it.I have […]

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Gregory Johnsen

December 21, 2010

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Brian O’Neill of Always Judged Guilty has an op-ed on Yemen and the future – post AQAP strikes on the Huthis – in the National. You should read it.I have been thinking a lot about the two suicide attacks, but the evidence is still too new and there are too many things in flux for me to know exactly what to make of it. That is shorthand for I don’t understand what is going on.

Gregory Johnsen

Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University

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