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...with his fingers crossed - and has ended up as the second-ranking leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). From there, it appears his organization helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab plot his failed Christmas bombing of Northwest Flight 253. (See how al-Qaeda is creating a crisis in Yemen...
Shortly after taking office, President Obama said he would close Guantánamo Bay within a year. He's not going to make that deadline, and the fact that nearly half of Guantánamo's remaining 200 detainees are from Yemen could delay the shutdown even longer. His plan relies on shipping most of those detainees back to their home countries, with a smaller number headed to a prison in Thomson...
...market to wash cars and a lot of the women beg." They have to compete with the locals, who already suffer a 35% unemployment rate, compounded by one of the fastest growing populations in the world. It is not surprising that the foreigners are quickly becoming scapegoats for Yemen's ills...
...there is little doubt that the steady push of refugees from the Horn of Africa into Yemen is proving taxing for a country on the brink of becoming the world's next failed state. Yemen simply doesn't have the resources to deal with multiple insurgencies, a water crisis, development woes, unemployment, widespread poverty and a refugee issue all at once. The country's foreign minister, Abubaker Abdullah al-Qirbi, told TIME in an interview in his office in early December: "The challenge is enormous . . . [The refugees] pose a lot of problems, both [security-related] and also pressure...
Qiribi says the Africans see his country as a coincidental destination in a bigger scheme: "Yemen is the closest country to the Horn of Africa. And they look at Yemen probably not as a refuge, but as a stepping stone to move closer to the Gulf States or to Europe." Qirbi says Yemen needs far more outside help than it's getting to handle the refugees. And Western analysts say all of the converging pressures mean that Yemen may be close to snapping. Indeed, it might not be long before Yemen starts to look a lot like Horn of Africa...