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Greg is traveling this weekend and I am in a cabin in Wisconsin. So we're going to try another open thread below. Readers, feel free to comment, hypothesize, argue, ask […]
Remember last year, when everyone was complaining about high oil prices? Remember how McCain mocked Obama for suggesting that people keep their tires inflated? That was fun, right? Then gas […]
Although there are clearly more important things going on in Yemen today, and like everyone else we here are also riveted by what is happening in Iran, I am going […]
Back in October news reports surfaced that Fahd al-Quso had been killed in Pakistan. I had my doubts then and said so here and here. Today, we have photographic evidence […]
President Salih is out of the country today, but while he is gone the JMP is publicly questioning his speech from Saturday, suggesting that there are more secessionists in San'a […]
If anyone has some free time and can make it this sounds like an interesting, if predictable, lecture.
I came close to making it through the weekend without blogging, but the new statement from AQAP forced my hand.The statement denies that anyone was killed in the strike on […]
One of the questions I am often asked is what if any links al-Qaeda as it is headquartered in Yemen has with al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia. Certainly, Sada al-Malahim has […]
My new piece in Foreign Policy is now on-line here.
Throughout the summer AQAP has put out a number of statements, detailing its operations. Often times I would discuss these with a Yemeni friend, the only other one I know […]
Mareb Press is reporting that there was an RPG attack on a military check point in Shabwa this morning. The article suggests that the attack came in Ratiq days after […]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a deal to send the Yemeni detainees to Saudi Arabia is in the making. This comes out just as I argue in "How […]
Or so says Shaykh 'Abd al-Muhsin al-'Abaykan of Saudi Arabia.
It seems clear from everything I have been able to put together from news reports, Yemeni officials I've spoken with and Yemenis back in Yemen that the 6 hostages are […]
I will be traveling for the rest of the week, consequently postings will be sporadic. I will, however, do my best to post from the road and the hotel. But […]
There is a great deal of news coming out of Yemen and Saudi Arabia this morning. Khalid al-Hammadi, in al-Quds al-Arabi, as well as a number of others write about […]
I have been traveling to DC the last couple of days - and on the train most of the morning - which means I'm playing a bit of catch-up with […]
Mareb Press is reporting that a mediation team under the leadership of Shaykh Faris al-Mana'a arrived in Ghamir in Sa'dah in an attempt to bring the situation back under control […]
Waq al-waq's spring cleaning goes on, as we continue to ignore stories in nearly every sector. But I think it is time for a quick round-up.First is this story about […]
So here I am sitting at home on Spring Break, writing up a report on Yemen, and just as I come to the section on press freedoms in the country […]