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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Simon Henderson has this piece on the Huthi conflict.He suggests that the reason for the renewed conflict in August was that fighters of […]
Waq al-waq does not usually break protocol and comment on issues outside of Yemen, but this is an exception. On Friday my younger brother was awarded the Navy and Marine […]
For those interested in a bit more background on AQAP and the recent raids I have done a couple of radio interviews that may be illuminating.The first was with Glenn […]
Here is a link to a new article I have up at Foreign Policy.
Thomas over at Jihadica has a lot more on the term ruwaybidha, including one of the traditions from which some version of the term stems,also politely correcting my original transliteration. […]
Al-Sharq al-Awsat leads the way with an article about AQAP's statement. One thing that few people seem to be picking up on is the difference in names between AQAP's statement […]
Yemen has upped the reward and expanded the search to two other governorates, but there is still no word on the remaining six hostages. This absence of information is leading […]
Last year on the eve of September 11 the al-Ikhlas forum was taken off-line. I have yet to see a good explanation for its absence although I have heard plenty […]
My technical incompetence has forced me to re-post the announcement on the Losing Bet. For those in Washington and interested you can watch a trailer here. (Click on the announcement […]
I made the mistake of listening to bin Laden's newest tape, which comes with English sub-titles and both an Arabic text and an English translation, before my coffee this morning. […]
This article (English) reminds me of the problems that certain academics (who shan't be named here) had attempting to explain how something like the September 11 attacks could have happened […]
Well, your buddy Brian here at Waq al-Waq never really expected to link to an article from Marxism.com, but it seems everyone wants to get into the Yemen game right […]
In the experiment in vanity that is Waq al-waq, I have added a post, which has its own permanent link on the sidebar of a list of non-academic articles. So […]
Major newspapers employ individuals who fact check their articles, including the opinion pieces of columnists, yes? Someone please enlighten me if this is not the case. I have written a […]
This depressed me. There is some controversy over an Israeli company signing a contract with the Yemen Liquefied Natural Gas Company to help on a project with the Liquefied Natural […]
... with this confused and contradictory article. I have no idea who wrote this, but whoever it is needs a better editor - can one really say: "The last thing […]
Waq al-waq has just learned that Hamid al-Ahmar will be a guest on al-Jazeera's Bila Hadud on Wednesday. Watch, enjoy and then comment.
Given yesterday's attack on Muhammad bin Nayif, I thought it might be helpful if I posted an excerpt from a talk I gave on August 19. The following is pasted […]
I was on al-Jazeera English yesterday talking about the recent attempted attack.
Postings will be even lighter than the new and reduced version of Waq al-waq, as I will be traveling for the next two days.