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Topic: Yemen (page 13)

Anti-government protestors gather by the bodies of the demonstrators who were killed on Friday's clashes with Yemeni security forces, during their funeral procession in Sanaa,Yemen, Sunday, March 20, 2011. The Yemeni president's own tribe has called on him to step down after a deadly crackdown on protesters, robbing the embattled U.S.-backed leader of vital support in a society dominated by blood ties. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

Protesters pull down a concrete wall in Baghdad during Iraq's "Day of Rage."

Latest on U.S responses to Mideast crackdowns

Marian Wang - ProPublica

Anti-government protestors chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. Yemen's president said Wednesday he had ordered his security services to protect protesters, stop all clashes and prevent direct confrontation between government supporters and opponents. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (AP)

Yemeni troops open fire on demonstrators

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at Northern Michigan University, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, in Marquette, Mich. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

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Smoke rises after an air strike on rebel targets in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada in this image taken on August 26, 2009 and released by the Houthi rebel group August 29, 2009. Yemen's president vowed late on Wednesday to rid provinces in the north of the country of rebels in a matter of weeks, ending recent heavy fighting which has seen hundreds killed and thousands displaced. Ali Abdullah Saleh said reinforcements would be sent to the mountainous Saada province, a rebel stronghold, adding he was confident government forces would defeat the rebels in Saada and Haraf Sufyan. REUTERS/Houthi Group/Handout (YEMEN POLITICS CONFLICT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Â© Ho New / Reuters)

Obama admin secretly fueled conflict in Yemen

Assistant Secretary of State Philip J. Crowley

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S and NATO commander addresses RUSI members on The International Mission in Afghanistan', at the United Services Institute in central London, Friday Oct. 15, 2010. Petraeus has confirmed that NATO has provided safe passage for top Taliban leaders to travel to Kabul for face-to-face negotiations with the American-backed Afghan government. (AP Photo/Dan Kitwood, Pool) (AP)

President Barack Obama delivers a statement at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. Obama says US committed to disrupting al-Qaida in Yemen, stops short of tying group to bombs. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

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This undated photo released by the Dubai Police via the state Emirates News Agency (WAM) on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, claims to show parts of a computer printer with explosives loaded into its toner cartridge found in a package onboard a cargo plane coming from Yemen, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai police say the bomb, discovered in the ink cartridge of a computer printer in a shipment of air cargo from Yemen bound for the United States, contained the powerful explosive PETN and bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Dubai Police via Emirates News Agency) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES (AP)

Yemen denies ties to explosive packages

Associated Press

Eileen Sullivan, Matt Apuzzo

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A scene from 1996's "Executive Decision," in which Arab terrorists hijack a Washington-bound Boeing 747

ABC mysteriously pulls story on hijacking threat

A man is led away from a plane at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam Monday Aug. 30, 2010 in this image taken from TV. The FBI probe of two men arrested in Amsterdam after suspicious items turned up in one of the men's luggage were probably not on a test run for a future terror attack, a U.S. official said Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010, casting doubt on earlier suggestions even as Dutch authorities held the pair on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terrorist act. (AP Photo/RTL, via APTN) ** NETHERLANDS OUT: ONE TIME USE ONLY: FOR USE UNTIL 1600 GMT SEPT 2, 2010 ONLY: WEBSITES MUST REMOVE THIS IMAGE AFTER 1559 GMT THURSDAY SEPT. 2, 2010: NO ARCHIVE:** (AP)

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Brian Ross

How Brian Ross blew the latest "terrorism" story

Kimberly Dozier

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman

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Geoff Mulvihill, Wayne Parry

Cold war in the Middle East

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