First off, it's a typical MidEast country, in which family is more important than religious, politics, the rule of law, money or anything else.
Mr. Saleh presents the Obama administration with a problem that is all too familiar in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is amenable to American support, but his ineffective and corrupt bureaucracy has limited reach. And his willingness to battle Al Qaeda, which he does not view as his main enemy, is questionable.
Much of Yemen is in turmoil. Government forces on Monday killed two militants suspected of being with Al Qaeda. There is another round of rebellion in the north and a growing secessionist movement in the south. In important provinces where key oil resources are and where Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is strong, government troops and the police largely remain in their barracks or in the central cities. Order outside the cities is kept by tribal chiefs, with their own complicated loyalties.
But it's amazing how all of a sudden, Yemen is suddenly tripping over Al Qaeda suspects.
Yemeni security forces arrested three suspected al-Qaida militants from a cell that the U.S. has said was linked to a plot against the American or other embassies, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
The arrests were the latest move in Yemen's U.S.-backed crackdown on al-Qaida's offshoot here, as Yemeni officials trumpet that they are taking on the militant group.
By: Brant
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