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US pulls more staff from Yemen embassy amid deepening crisis
2015-01-24
[Ynet] The United States has pulled more staff out of its embassy in Yemen, US officials said on Thursday as Washington scrambled to cope with the collapse of a government that had been a key ally in the fight against al Qaeda.

The scaling down of its presence in Yemen is the first sign that the latest turmoil there will affect US operations in a country that President Barack Obama
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesnât. But she is a typical white person...
hailed just four months ago as a model for "successful" counter-terrorism partnerships.

The US diplomatic contingent in Sanaa was drawn down due to the deteriorating security situation in the Yemeni capital, the officials said. They insisted there were no plans to close the embassy, which could have been seen as erosion of US resolve in counter-terrorism operations in the volatile Arab country.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Helicopters on the roof. Another Obama foreign policy success story. [do I really need to put the /sarc off?]
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-01-24 09:32  

#2  The process of finding new 'Islamic moderates' begins anew.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-24 07:47  

#1  Reuters: Some counter-terrorism efforts in Yemen frozen for now - U.S. officials
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-01-24 00:29  

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