Yemen: America's Dangerous Game

March 01, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

WARNING: Graphic Content. America says its fight against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the most important front in its war on terror, requiring air strikes and the use of local counter-insurgency forces in Yemen and elsewhere. But will that strategy backfire thanks to widespread civilian deaths and unreliable local allies? This film reveals the full scale of Washington's covert war in Yemen and asks: Is the US creating more enemies than it can capture or kill? From the Al Jazeera English series People & Power.

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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It was named for al-Qaeda, and says it is subordinate to that group and its now-deceased leader Osama bin Laden, a Saudi citizen whose father was born in Yemen. I... Explore this topic

Yemen

La República de Yemen es un país bicontinental situado en Oriente Próximo y en África. Su parte asiática está situada en el Mashreq, al sur de la península de Arabia, rodeado por el mar Arábigo, el golfo de Adén y el mar Rojo, en Asia. La isla de Socotra está en África. Compar... Explore this topic

Abyan Governorate

Abyan is a governorate of Yemen. The Abyan region was historically part of the Fadhli Sultanate. It was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army militant group. Its capital is the city of Zinjibar. This governorate is noted for its agriculture, in particular the cultivation of da... Explore this topic

Zinjibar

Zinjibar is a port and coastal town in south-central Yemen, the capital of Zinjibar District and the Abyan Governorate. It is located next to the Wadi Bana in the Abyan Delta. From 1962 to 1967, it was the administrative capital of the Fadhli Sultanate, although the royal resi... Explore this topic

South Yemen

The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, also referred to as South Yemen, Democratic Yemen or Yemen, was a socialist state in the southern and eastern provinces of the present-day Republic of Yemen. Along with the Somali Democratic Republic, it was one of the few openly-Comm... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The lower forty-eight contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada... Explore this topic

US-Yemen relations

Traditionally, United States – Yemen relations have been tepid, as the lack of strong military-to-military ties, commercial relations, and support of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has hindered the development of strong bilateral ties. During the early years of the George... Explore this topic

Counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism incorporates the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to attack terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed. The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and gove... Explore this topic

Civilian casualties

Civilian casualties is a military term describing civilian or non-combatant persons killed, injured, or imprisoned by military action. The description of civilian casualties includes any form of military action regardless of whether civilians were targeted directly. This diffe... Explore this topic

War on Terror

The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign which started as a result of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. This resulted in an international military campaign to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizati... Explore this topic

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