Inside Yemen's Al Qaeda Heartland -- The Telegraph
In a special despatch, The Sunday Telegraph looks at the lawless Yemeni region that is the haunt of Anwar al Awlaki and other leaders of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
For someone who lives close to some of the world's most wanted men, Abu Mudrik Bin Fahir takes a suprisingly neighbourly attitude. A tribal sheikh in the eastern Yemeni province of Shabwah, his fiefdom is wedged amid the mountains that serve as the main base for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group that claims to have masterminded last month's parcel bomb plot.
Yet despite the threat of Yemeni government raids, CIA drone attacks and now, possible raids by American special forces, he predicts few people in his area will betray the militants to the authorities.
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My Comment: Unless the Yemeni Government and the CIA have a large number of informers on the ground .... or ground forces .... there is no way that the U.S. and Yemen will put a dent in Al Qaeda's Yemen branch.
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