In our weekly roundtable, we focus on intensive new efforts to hunt down al-Qaeda after the failed Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines passenger plane — a plot that was hatched in Yemen.
James Rubin, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a former assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, and Garrick Utley, president of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York and a former NBC News foreign correspondent and anchor, join Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss Yemen and the fight against terrorism.
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01/12/2010 :: 10:36:07 AM
Jim Weekley Says:
I was not aware that the Obama administration gave the Yemen government a one billion dollars of US tax payers money. First of all most African countries are not real stable and so seems to be the case with Yemen - so where will the one billion US TAX PAYER dollars end up - probably in the pockets of some corrupt political or military leader in that part of the world. What puzzles me is where does these extremist get the money to buy all of their arms and munitions - it takes money to procure those types of things and lots of it. The other thing is why doesn’t the world crack down on Arms merchants both legal and illegal sales - when these extremist are reduced to chucking spears the whole world will be a lot safer. JIM @ USA