Middle East: January 2003

Breaking the Yemen-Al Qaeda Connection

By: Mark N. Katz

Description: "It is the tribal view that the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend'-more so than common religious and ideological affinities or hostility toward the West-that motivates certain Yemeni tribes to cooperate with Al Qaeda. . . . Al Qaeda is merely the most recent in a string of 'friends' who have supported these tribes against the government."

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