The Next 9/11 -- Ellen Knickmeyer, The Daily BeastIn the nine years since al Qaeda's attack on the U.S., Yemen has emerged as the group's staging ground the U.S. fears most. Ellen Knickmeyer reports from terrorism's new ground zero. Plus, our complete coverage of the anniversary.
On a recent evening, I visited a Yemeni businessman who, after dinner, gave me a tour of his basement. What he wanted to show me was his stockpiles of water, rations, ammunitions and a crated, padlocked item that he identified as an anti-aircraft weapon. He gleefully took aim at his ceiling and mock-strafed imaginary F-16s. “We are all ready,” he said, with the mixture of hospitality and incipient lethalness that one finds here. “Every house in Yemen has this.”
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