Yemen's Hidden War - RollingStone.com
"Since the start of the war in Yemen, it's been crazy here," he says. It sits astride the narrow straits that lead to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, and is home to the U. S. 's only permanent military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier, linchpin of one of the Obama administration's most secretive and controversial... Yemen, an impoverished, restive nation of 27 million on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula has, in particular, been the focus of extensive counterterrorism efforts since the deadly attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Its branch of Al Qaeda has... The Obama administration assassinated its first U. S. citizen, the fiery propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, in Yemen's arid badlands. In his speech unveiling his plan to combat ISIS last September, Obama held up Yemen as an example of where the U. S. had "successfully pursued" his counterterrorism strategy. That strategy has now completely unraveled, as Yemen has become the latest country in the Middle East to descend into a full-fledged civil war. Source: www.rollingstone.com
