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Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

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Gregory Johnsen

Available videos of talks on al-Qaeda in Yemen

January 2010: The Yemen Crisis: Some Ground Truths (Princeton)

January 2010: Big Think Interview, Big Think

December 10, 2009: Yemen’s Three Layers of Crises, National Council on US-Arab Relations

October 21, 2009: Yemen’s experiment with Rehab, New America Foundation.

July 07, 2009: al-Qaeda in Yemen at the Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC

December 09, 2008: Expanding Geography of Militant Islam at the National Press Club, Washington DC: “Al-Qaeda in Yemen“
(First, few minutes with my opening jokes are on a different video)

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