Qaeda Seizes Yemeni Town

As if the news coming from Yemen isn’t scary enough, it appears to be getting worse. Just several days after armed tribesmen took over an army camp, it appears that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has taken over an entire town in southern Yemen.

There is talk that the evacuation of the town by the Yemeni military was intentional:

But opponents said President Ali Abdullah Saleh had given up the town to stoke fears of a militant takeover.

Even if that was the case, Yemen appears just several steps away from either another civil war or becoming a new Somalia:

“About 300 Islamic millitants and Al Qaeda men came into Zinjibar and took over everything on Friday,” a Zinjibar resident told Reuters.

However, one military unit was reported to have refused to surrender and was now surrounded, reports said.

The United States better figure out a policy quick.

Cross-posted at World Threats.

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