[ti:Attention Turns to Yemen in Anti-Terror Fight ]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.08]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.34]Yemen is the poorest
[00:10.50]Arab nation.
[00:11.54]Poverty can help
[00:13.59]breed extremism
[00:15.26]-- al-Qaida is a growing
[00:17.60]concern for the Yemenis.
[00:19.80]But the government
[00:21.10]also faces
[00:22.16]an armed rebellion
[00:23.95]in the north and
[00:25.52]a separatist movement
[00:27.12]in the south.
[00:28.58]In Sanaa,
[00:29.73]fears of an al-Qaida
[00:31.60]attack led to
[00:33.04]temporary closures
[00:34.60]this week of the American,
[00:36.94]British and French embassies.
[00:39.88]Yemeni officials say
[00:42.02]they have increased protection
[00:44.36]of foreign interests
[00:46.28]in the capital.
[00:47.63]They have also sent
[00:49.35]thousands of troops
[00:50.95]to Arhab and other areas
[00:53.58]to battle the local
[00:55.41]al-Qaida group.
[00:57.40]Yemen also plays a part
[01:00.08]in the case of Umar
[01:01.97]Farouk Abdulmutallab.
[01:04.06]He is the man accused
[01:06.37]of trying to bomb
[01:07.57]an American plane
[01:08.97]with explosives
[01:10.46]in his underwear.
[01:12.22]A Yemeni deputy
[01:14.48]prime minister said
[01:15.87]Thursday that the
[01:17.57]twenty-three year old Nigerian
[01:20.12]met last year in Yemen
[01:22.58]with Anwar al-Awlaki.
[01:25.32]The American-born Muslim
[01:27.81]clergyman is accused
[01:29.55]of supporting al-Qaida.
[01:31.50]But the deputy
[01:33.41]prime minister said
[01:34.81]al-Qaida first recruited
[01:37.55]the young man in Britain
[01:39.39]when he was a student in London.
[01:41.98]The official also warned
[01:44.97]against foreign military
[01:47.46]intervention in Yemen,
[01:49.26]saying that could
[01:50.97]strengthen al-Qaida.
[01:52.92]Britain is organizing
[01:55.29]an international conference later
[01:57.83]this month to discuss
[01:59.62]the security problems.
[02:01.64]And the United States
[02:03.63]is expected to nearly
[02:05.44]double its seventy
[02:07.30]million dollars
[02:08.82]in security
[02:11.46]assistance to Yemen.
[02:13.41]Earlier this week,
[02:15.85]President Obama said
[02:17.44]no additional prisoners
[02:19.97]from Guantanamo Bay
[02:21.79]will be released to Yemen.
[02:24.26]The president wanted
[02:26.41]to close the American prison
[02:28.67]in Cuba this month.
[02:30.55]But the recent developments
[02:32.86]seem to have only made
[02:34.76]the issue more difficult.
[02:36.93]The failed attack
[02:39.13]on the plane happened
[02:40.67]December twenty-fifth,
[02:42.47]Christmas Day.
[02:43.79]Almost three hundred people
[02:46.25]were on the flight
[02:47.60]from Amsterdam.
[02:48.90]It was preparing to land
[02:51.02]in Detroit, Michigan.
[02:53.23]Passengers and crew
[02:55.44]restrained the man
[02:56.71]and put out the fire caused
[02:59.28]by a mixture of explosives.
[03:02.15]He could face life in prison.
[03:05.31]He appeared in federal court
[03:07.87]in Detroit for the
[03:09.31]first time Friday.
[03:10.72]He did not answer the
[03:12.86]charges himself
[03:14.41]but his lawyers
[03:15.80]entered a plea of not guilty.
[03:18.72]Some people say
[03:20.36]the case should have been
[03:22.33]handled in the military
[03:24.43]justice system.
[03:25.99]On Thursday President Obama
[03:28.93]blamed the incident on
[03:30.98]what he called a
[03:32.34]"systemic failure
[03:34.11]across organizations and agencies."
[03:38.31]"Rather than a failure
[03:40.26]to collect or share intelligence,"
[03:43.62]he said, "this was a failure
[03:45.88]to connect and understand
[03:48.48]the intelligence
[03:50.15]that we already had."
[03:51.94]He is ordering steps
[03:54.41]to improve airport security
[03:56.81]and the handling of
[03:58.65]intelligence information.
[04:00.84]But he admitted there
[04:03.55]is no perfect solution.
[04:05.80]"As we develop new screening
[04:08.63]technologies and procedures,"
[04:11.19] he said, "our adversaries
[04:13.70]will seek new ways to evade them."
[04:17.25]Last week, the Central
[04:19.59]Intelligence Agency
[04:21.24]suffered a setback
[04:22.96]in its efforts against al-Qaida.
[04:25.70]A suicide bombing
[04:28.11]at a C.I.A. base
[04:30.10]in Afghanistan killed
[04:32.37]seven Americans
[04:34.10]and a Jordanian intelligence officer.
[04:37.40]The bomber was identified
[04:39.89]as a Jordanian doctor
[04:41.93]who was supposed to be
[04:43.95]informing on the terrorist group.
[04:46.68]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:48.83]in VOA Special English,
[04:51.62]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:53.82]I'm Steve Ember.
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