US Won't Send Troops To Yemen. How Will It Defeat Al Qaeda There? -- Christian Science Monitor
President Obama and the Pentagon have ruled out US troops in Yemen. The US will have to rely on civilian aid – which has been ineffective in Iraq and Afghanistan – to undermine Al Qaeda.
The US is looking at ways to help the Yemeni government stabilize its country that are unlikely to include sending American forces anytime soon.
That may appease some of the more radical elements within Yemen, including a Yemeni cleric, who said Monday that the US should keep American troops out of his country. Sheik Abdul-Malid al-Zindani, considered by the US to be a global terrorist with ties to Osama bin Laden, says a deployment of American troops to Yemen would amount to an occupation and would force Yemenis to “rise up” against their government.
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Yemen: A Country Still At War With Itself -- The Age
War risk menaces Yemen's wild south -- Financial Times
Yemen 'cannot contain al-Qa'ida' -- Independent
Al-Qaeda gets the upper hand in Yemen -- The Age
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Yemen denies claims it offered al-Qaeda deal to leave -- The Telegraph
Yemen denies reports to renew talks with al-Qaida -- China View
Yemen's top diplomat rejects US, West's pressure for reforms amid fight against al-Qaida -- Canadian Press
Radical Yemen cleric warns against US 'occupation' -- AFP
Yemen's most powerful radical cleric warns of foreign 'occupation' in growing terror fight -- Canadian Press
US walking a tightrope with its Yemen policy -- Christian Science Monitor
Yemen: UN agency estimates 200,000 civilians uprooted as fighting rages on -- UN News Center
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