Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Senate Hearing on Yemen

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The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will hold a hearing on Yemen this week – Yemen: Confronting al–Qaeda, Preventing State Failure – of which I will be a part. I will upload my testimony here when it becomes available.

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