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	<description>Jane Novak's blog about Yemen</description>
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		<title>Readings on Yemen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[-  How to help Yemen come unstuck by Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. Article details how the immunity plan and the general air of impunity is hindering military/ security restructuring and reform in general, gives detailed action plan Also see  Transition Needs Accountability, Security Reform, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/04/26/reading-on-yemen/</link>
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		<title>Lacking intel on AQAP, Obama admin broadens drone targeting guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama admin has approved droning Yemenis deemed a threat to the US even if their identities are not known. The US is currently relying heavily on aerial surveillance for intel on AQAP, following a decade of exclusively relying on half bogus intel from the subverted Saleh regime. And its likely the CIA/DOD has identified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/04/26/lacking-intel-on-aqap-obama-admin-broadens-drone-targeting-guidelines/</link>
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		<title>Foreign, local al Qaeda spread tyranny in Yemen to Azzan, Shabwa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oddly ironic that Yemen has no law against jihad abroad, even murder, and now foreign al Qaeda are flooding to Yemen to &#8220;liberate&#8221; the people with their violent repressive supremacist ideology. 
 The National: The police station in Azzan has been turned into the regional headquarters of Ansar Al Sharia, which is affiliated with Al [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/12/foreign-local-al-qaeda-spread-tyranny-in-yemen-to-azzan-shabwa/</link>
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		<title>US aid to Yemen $326M since 2007, Yemeni military still poorly trained, equipped; CT head Ahmed Saleh has $5M townhown in DC, Yahya has AQAP hostages in warehouse, EUMA not enforced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And theres a lot of video of the poor captured soldiers being held in Yahya Saleh&#8217;s warehouse and lectured by Abu Hamza. 
 Yemen Times: Dozens of soldiers are held inside the Al-Maz Company, owned by Yahya Saleh, nephew of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh (ed- and the US&#8217;s Counter Terror liaison). The soldiers were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/12/us-aid-to-yemen-326m-since-2007-yemeni-military-still-poorly-trained-equipped-ct-head-ahmed-saleh-has-5m-townhown-in-dc-ct-chief-yahya-has-aqap-hostages-in-warehouse/</link>
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		<title>Resonate Yemen&#8217;s election report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NGO Resonate Yemen has issued their report on the 2012 presidential election in Yemen. It is available  here at their website. 
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		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/12/resonate-yemens-election-report/</link>
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		<title>SM leader: Saleh takes profits directly from YMC, moderate SM rejects al Beidh&#8217;s Iranian nexus,  wants to participate in reconstruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update: As expected howls of dissent from southerners: the new leader is someone else, I hesitate to even write the name as bad things happen sometimes to emerging leaders, Nakhbi now is an Islah operative they say and there are no, repeat no, connections to Iran. But al Beidh has been talking about Iran for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/11/sm-leader-saleh-takes-profits-directly-from-ymc-moderate-sm-rejects-al-beidhs-iranian-nexus/</link>
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		<title>Al Qaeda holds captive soldiers at (Yahya Saleh&#8217;s) al Maz warehouse in Jaar, Abyan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for al Qaeda hostages in Yemen, starting with the property owned by the head of the counter-terror unit is usually a good bet. That&#8217;s no joke, it should be standard procedure. There were airstrikes in vicinity of the al Maz warehouse in Jaar where the captured Yemeni soldiers are held by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/11/al-qaeda-holds-captive-soldiers-at-yahya-salehs-al-maz-warehouse-in-jaar-abyan/</link>
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		<title>Yemen to vaccinate 8 million kids under 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[thank God. 
Nationwide measles campaign launched in Yemen 
SANA’A, March 10 (Saba) &#8211; The Government of Yemen in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, USAID, ICRC and other partners Saturday launched a nationwide measles campaign in Sana’a, targeting all children under the age of ten – an estimated eight million.
This campaign comes in the wake of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/11/yemen-to-vaccinate-8-million-kids-under-10/</link>
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		<title>1st Armored Div protests for Ali Mohsen al Ahmar dismissal, prisoner release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were a lot of articles on the anti-Mohsen protest on Saleh regimists funded &#8220;independent&#8221; websites, but I finally found it on what looks to be a ]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/10/1st-armored-protests-for-ali-mohsen-al-ahmar-dismissal/</link>
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		<title>Al Qaeda plans to hit US Embassy, other Sanaa targets, after diversionary strike in Mukallah, report; Update: drones in al Baydah &amp; Jaar, Ethiopians in Abyan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds bad, kind of a vehicular Mumbai style swarm. There&#8217;s no way the US embassy doesn&#8217;t know this already though right? The article was published last night at 9pm. Also note there&#8217;s sources and there&#8217;s security sources. This is but one reason why freedom of the press is so important in Yemen&#8211;open source AQAP reporting. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2012/03/10/al-qaeda-plans-to-hit-us-embassy-other-sanaa-targets-after-diversionary-strike-in-mukallah-report-update-drones-in-al-baydah-ethiopians-in-abyan/</link>
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