Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?

How Yemen has become the latest haven for al-Qaeda

Reuters

While the rest of the world focuses on Iraq and Afghanistan, Yemen is coming to a boil. Yemen's Sunni government focuses on Shi'ite rebels, called Houthis, concentrated in northern Yemen's Saada province. In this video grab, soldiers fire at the rebels.

The Cheery in-flight magazine of Yemenia, the national airline of Yemen, still runs articles encouraging adventurous tourists to visit the coffee-growing region in the country's north, its terraced hilltop villages a vision of Old Arabia, and the fabled eastern valleys that were once home to the Queen of Sheba. But anyone trying to get off the beaten track in Yemen these days may find a bit too much adventure. About two-thirds of the country is out of government control and in the hands of either separatist groups or local tribes, some of which have a habit of kidnapping foreign tourists to...

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