Thursday, January 28, 2010

International Conference On Helping Yemen Fails To Interest The Arab World

International Conference to Help Yemen

Pentagon To Send More Special Forces Troops To Yemen -- Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is assigning more special forces personnel to Yemen as part of a broad push to speed the training of the country's counterterror forces in the wake of the failed Christmas Day attack on a crowded U.S. airliner.

Military officials familiar with the matter said the U.S. will begin rotating the same groups of special forces personnel through Yemen and keeping some of the elite troops there for longer tours, changes designed to help the American trainers develop closer relationships with their Yemeni counterparts.

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More News On The International Conference on Yemen

Yemen near crisis that will pose global threat, foreign ministers warn -- Times Online
Yemen conference fails to excite Arab press interest -- BBC
World Leaders Committed To Long Haul In Yemen -- NPR
World powers to support faltering Yemen to bolster fight against al-Qaida linked terrorism -- Canadian Press
Hillary Clinton among those praising Yemen's efforts against al-Qaeda -- Washington Post
Hillary Clinton urges Yemen to 'take ownership' of its problems -- L.A. Times
As Nations Meet, Clinton Urges Yemen to Prove Itself Worthy of Aid -- New York Times
Exclusive: Qaeda benefits from Yemen woes, PM says -- Reuters
New Yemen Strategy -- Voice of America editorial

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