Bin Laden's Organization Regroups at Yemen

Smoke is seen billowing outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa September 17, 2008.
REUTERS/Yemen News Agency/Handout

From The New York Sun:

Car-Bomb Attack on American Embassy Kills 16 Yemeni Nationals

WASHINGTON — Yemen, the site of a car-bomb attack yesterday on the American Embassy, is quietly emerging as a base for Al Qaeda veterans of the Iraq war, who are seeking refuge there and are close to establishing the kind of safe haven the group enjoys on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

American intelligence officials believe that Osama bin Laden's organization is regrouping in the governorates of Ma'rib, al-Jawf, and Hadhramaut along Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia, and that Al Qaeda in Yemen is now being led by a former military aide to Mr. bin Laden, Nasir al-Wahishi.

"The foreign-fighter flow in Iraq has slowed down to a trickle," a retired four-star general and adviser to Multi-National Force-Iraq, General Jack Keane, told The New York Sun. "They can't get to their operational cells to be a bomber or a fighter, so some of them are going to other safe havens. A lot of this has to do with where they came from. But two of the places certainly are Pakistan and Yemen."

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My Comment: What has and is happening in Yemen ..... this is what will probably happen in Pakistan if it loses it war against militant Islam.