As noted below, the Yemeni Parliament has overwhelming agreed to postpone elections for two years, pushing them to the futuristic 2011. The Yemen Observer, taking an angle I hadn’t thought […]
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Al-Sharq al-Awsat and al-Quds al-Arabi both have stories today on the death sentence handed down to ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Yahya Hamud al-‘Ubadi for his killing of a Jewish citizen in December.This […]
ABC News corrected its story that Muhammad al-‘Awfi was involved in planning the Christmas Day attempted attack. This has only been one of many errors that the eagle-eyes at Waq […]
Big day today. Nothing less than the future of Yemen- and, indeed, the world- is at stake, and it will all be decided in the matter of the next two […]
In his weekly address today, the President directly tied the Christmas bombing with AQAP. It was only a few minutes of a talk, so I don’t want to read too […]
I am attempting to maintain good humor, but as a warning to those who read this blog: please properly cite the material you gain from this blog. Much of what […]
One question that came to mind after reading through the second issue of Inspire is: Does the US now put Samir Khan on the CIA hit list now that he […]
Yemen took a number of hits this week – what’s new? – including this report by Human Rights Watch, calling for investigations into past war crimes in Sa ‘dah. I’m […]
I have been watching with interest over the last two days how the AQAP statement of responsibility has been moving around the al-Faluja forum. First it started in the general […]
You heard it here first. The new issue of Sada al-Malahim should be out soon. Of great curiosity this time will be whether or not the organization addresses al-Awfi’s confessions, […]
While the attention of most continues to be occupied by the south (unintentional, I swear) the fighting over the past couple of days has picked up in the north. One […]
News Yemen, and a number of other outlets, are reporting that the Ministry of Information has a new guide book for the country’s most wanted. Al-Ghad attempts to fit all […]
I have been a bit hard on some of the NY Times’ reporting coming out of Yemen lately, but I like to think that it is a loving criticism. Still, […]
As everyone’s attention is rightly focused on the north and the Huthi conflict, the south is still hanging around. In Abyan clashes between an Islamist militia (not al-Qaeda) and security […]
This is the last time I’ll be doing this, but I have a column up on the internet. This one is not about Yemen. I’ll only mention them in a […]
As I’m sure everyone who reads or follows (yes, you too can follow Waq al-waq) this blog is aware a new issue of Inspire magazine is out. I haven’t commented […]
The Drone/UAV issue that we wrote about here now appears to be solved or at least partially so.Trey very helpfully posted a video of UAVs being launched in and around […]
No, no- this isn’t going to discuss the breathtaking architecture, the astonishing, fascinating history or the diverse and beautiful culture of Yemen. Don’t be absurd. Greg and I have analytical […]
Al-Tagheer is reporting that President Salih has replaced the head of the 35th Armored Division, Muhammad ‘Abdullah Haydar with Faysal Rajib. I have heard some disquieting and quite scary news […]
The New York Times is out with a new report on Guantanamo and recidivism rates, claiming that 1 in 7 released detainees find their way back to the battlefield.Much of […]
I read the ICG’s most recent report on Yemen: Defusing the Saada Time Bomb this morning, and despite my quibbles with its transliteration, I was quite impressed with the report. […]
As Ibn Silliqi and others have been pointing out to me it has been a busy few days in Yemen – AQAP is out with a new video on the […]
Over the past several days I have been asked numerous times to explain what I think the US should do in Yemen, and while I am not a policymaker and […]
Here is the transcript and video from the PBS News Hour yesterday.
Most of the papers this morning are full of the news that al–Raymi and everyone else survived the attack late last week, which the Yemeni government had claimed killed six […]
The Yemeni government is attempting to take the fight to al–Qaeda, using helicopters to comb the governorates of Marib, Shabwa, Hadramawt, and probably al–Jawf. (All of this makes me wonder […]
After a nice weekend away from work – thanks Manayunk Brewery – I’m back and ready to re-start the morning papers portion of the program.First, however, a few comments on […]
I returned home from vacation to find that apparently both Brian and the readership of this blog also decided to take a few days off. The news, however, did not. […]
Greg is testifying before the Senate today, along with several others. Here is the link to get the transcripts, and there is also video. I have been watching it, and […]