Yemen

In late March President Ali Abdullah Saleh stated that Yemen was making progress in its crackdown on al-Qaeda. However, the March arrest in Saudi Arabia of 101 militants accused of planning attacks on oil and security facilities there suggests that al-Qaeda's reach within Yemen runs deep. Indeed, 51 of those arrested were Yemeni, and the majority were captured in Jazan, a province close to Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen. Moreover, Saudi interior ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turk said that the investigation had revealed 'correspondence between this organisation [the detainees] and al-Qaeda's organisation in

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