Tuesday, April 26, 2011

YEMAN - President Saleh Weights Exit

"Upheaval, Uncertainty in Yemen as Saleh Weighs Exit"
PBS Newshour 4/25/2011

Excerpt from transcript

MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): So, Ambassador Bodine, do you agree the group that sent us the Christmas Day bomber has more freedom to operate now, at the very least?

BARBARA BODINE, Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen: Yes. Yes.

I mean, what -- what's been created is just a larger vacuum. The security forces are distracted by these demonstrations and their own internal divisions. And the government is. And so this is -- this has just taken the pressure off of AQAP. And that is obviously a worry to us, the Saudis, and to a host of others, and I think number of people in Yemen as well.

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