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Sailor by day, math teacher, Washington defense analyst, technical consultant in Saudi Arabia, and writer for the Dukakis campaign by night...
...math teacher in the Boston public schools during the first year of desegregation, a Washington defense analyst on B-52s and cruise missiles, a technical consultant for power and desalination plants in Saudi Arabia, and a writer for Michael Dukakis’ presidential campaign...
...Lived in Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 1986, where she began her career as a writer...
...Qaeda has stepped up its targeting of foreign interests in Yemen, most notably through a foiled attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in September 2008. Early this year, the head of al-Qaeda in Yemen, Naser al-Wahishi, announced the merger between his organization and al-Qaeda's Saudi branch to form al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a move that caused the U.S. director of national intelligence to note that Yemen was "re-emerging as a jihadist battleground and potential regional base of operations for al-Qaeda." With a base in Yemen, al-Qaeda could launch attacks...
...Yemeni government is much more concerned with fighting the Houthis in Saada and with the secessionists in the south. Al-Qaeda ranks a distant third. The government doesn't see it as a Yemeni problem. [It sees it as] a foreign problem." (See pictures of President Obama in Saudi Arabia...