Yemen

[Lhalo]

Looks like we're going to lose another ally in the fight against Al Quaeda.

 

"A Yemeni government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of concern for his safety, confirmed that Yemen’s president was pinned down in his residence under attack."

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/yemen-rebels-attack-presidential-compound-in-escalating-attacks-seen-as-coup-bid/2015/01/20/693aed94-a0b7-11e4-9f89-561284a573f8_story.html

 

[arch stanton]

he insurgents are Shia. Maybe they'll keep up the fight using Iran's money instead of ours.

[shellback]

man. yemen. the same place where they seriously damaged the USS Cole with a loss of 30 some sailors. where it could be accurately said the male population sits around all day chewing khat and having drug induced conversations, drinking tea. it has amazed me for 20+ years that we appear to hold yemen in some kind of place of impotance geopolitically.

what a shithole.

[Lhalo]

They've got some great neighbors across the gulf too!

[gotbeer]

Isn't Yemen where the group that claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks are from?  

[Tank]

yep, al qaeda has a home there.

[arch stanton]

Al Qaeda has a home there but they've got no friend in this coup group. They might even be more effective at weeding them out.