Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

History of AQAP

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The trusty visitor counter suggests that Waq al-waq has had several hundred new visitors to the blog yesterday. So, first: Welcome. Second for those of you looking for history of AQAP I would recommend that you either watch the video or read the transcript of this event from Carnegie from July 2009.

It is not the most complete thing I have prepared but it is the best overview that I have published to-date. There is a much longer one in the works but this is not yet finished.

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