Yemen: The Latest U.S. Battleground admin, January 8, 2010February 1, 2025 Huffington Post, January 8, 2010 The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counterinsurgency war which, as is the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even worse. The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight by a Nigerian man was apparently planned in Yemen. There were alleged ties between the perpetrator of the Ft. Hood massacre and a radical Yemeni cleric, and an ongoing U.S.-backed Yemeni military offensive against al-Qaeda have all focused U.S. attention on that country. [source] Arabian Peninsula Huffington Post Obama Foreign Policy War on Terror Yemen