The Gang is all here

For those who read the recent interview with al-Wahayshi, I would recommend you take a look at Abdulela Sha’a’s blog– it adds a bit more detail. It seems as though […]

December 21, 2010

For those who read the recent interview with al-Wahayshi, I would recommend you take a look at Abdulela Sha'a's blog - it adds a bit more detail. It seems as though all the gang was there. And, in what is surely an embarrassing revelation for the Yemeni government, it turns out that the meeting with all the al-Qaeda leaders took place in San'a.

For those who read the recent interview with al-Wahayshi, I would recommend you take a look at Abdulela Sha’a’s blog– it adds a bit more detail. It seems as though all the gang was there. And, in what is surely an embarrassing revelation for the Yemeni government, it turns out that the meeting with all the al-Qaeda leaders took place in San’a.

Gregory Johnsen

Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University

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