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Wednesday describing it as the largest single drug seizure in the countrys forty year long fight against drug trafficking. united nations says yemen is facing the largest farm in the world has seen for many decades a saudi led coalition has blockaded all the countrys ports and cut off the flow of arms to who the rebels but its also cut off international aid the saudis are backing the sunni yemeni government against an uprising by shia rebels in the north of the country today marks the anniversar...

Nonexistence presence in yemen. for years the united states has been targeting the leadership of one of al qaedas most dangerous franchises in the world, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap, and of course its not only a threat in the region, it is seen as a global terror threat. in the statement by the state department it says, quote, we also continue to actively monitor terrorist threats emanating from yemen and have the capabilities postured in the area to address them, end quote. as a res...

Nonexistent u.s. presence in yemen on the counter terrorism operations there. the country is a main base for one of al qaedas most powerful franchises al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap. now with no real government in charge of the country after the houthi shia rebels pushed the president out of power in sanaa. the u.s. lost its ally in the war on terror there. its this kind of political instability and the security vacuum that is something we have seen extremist groups exploit so much whet...

He poses a threat to us because hes not afraid to use terrorism against us when hes defeated militarily. jon: in yemen the president is mostly, most of the time friend to the united states. he has helped us in anti-al-qaeda efforts. he now says he is ready to go hand over power. what should the united states do? the do we just sit back and wait to see who replaces him? >> no, i think we need to get involved because yemen could be like afghanistan but even worse. it could make afghanistan look ea...