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...operation in Yemen best demonstrates the latter point. In a war-torn country where, less than two years ago, terrorists bombed the U.S.S. Cole, Bush has authorized the deployment of a scant 100 troops. What is more, this contingent will not be deployed as a single unit, but in groups of 20 to 30, rendering them effectively dependent on a weak Yemeni government for security...
...around the globe, it becomes harder to develop the intelligence needed to take the fight to the enemy. Last week the Administration gave its clearest signal yet that the war won't stop in Afghanistan or even the Philippines, when it announced plans to send special-ops troops to Yemen and the former Soviet republic of Georgia, both countries where al-Qaeda fighters are believed to be hiding...
...hopes to intercept terrorists before they check in at Logan International Airport or cruise into the port of New York, its forces must meet them where they live--or where they have temporarily huddled after fleeing Afghanistan. The newest additions to the battlefield, announced last week, are Yemen and the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia. As is already happening in the Philippines, American money, equipment and personnel will flow to these troubled nations in an effort to help their forces root out al-Qaeda operatives, U.S. officials say. These new campaigns, however, will require high-caliber intelligence and some fancy...
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is completing a plan to send several scores of troops to Yemen, a longtime terrorist hideout. The FBI will also dispatch agents. U.S. intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaeda members will use Yemen as a base, because like Pakistan it offers such an inviting mix of political instability, Islamic extremism and enough infrastructure to set up shop. In the past, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a reluctant U.S. partner. The FBI complains that Yemeni authorities cooperated only "grudgingly and slowly," as one official puts it, with the investigation of the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S...
...administration has announced that it will soon dispatch a contingent of roughly 100 U.S. troops to Yemen. And yes, it plans to send 200 Americans to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to train that nation’s military, because reports suggest that terrorist groups have taken refuge near the Georgia-Chechnya border. But such decisions hardly signify a dearth of “clear direction.” These moves are merely precautionary actions; they do not amount to new large-scale operations that would needlessly endanger American troops or compromise our larger goals...