Closed captioning of: Al-Qaida in Yemen largest terror threat?
>>>
collaborating with allies in pakistan. the obama administration is reportedly considering escalating american operation ace cross the
horn of africa
and increasing the use of predator drones in a targeted killing program.
jim miklaszewski
joins us. why does
al qaeda
in
yemen
pose such a threat?
>>
while they remain the sort of spiritual leaders of
al qaeda
, the fact of the matter is they the successful u.s. operations there to some extent in terms of the cia
predator drone
strikes and increased activity by
pakistani military
and going after terrorists in the western part of that country have rendered
al qaeda
in pakistan pretty much nonoperational. so what's happening is the operational aspects of
al qaeda
have pretty much migrated to those cells there in
yemen
. after all, you remember, that the underwear
christmas day
bomber was dispatched from
yemen
. and the american imam al-alwaki continues to protest there in
yemen
. so it's clear to u.s. officials they have to consider a more aggressive approach to getting at the operation in
yemen
. that country hasn't had a viable, stable government that has control over the entire country for a number of years, therefore leaving an opening for
al qaeda
to, in fact, operate.
>>
thanks, mick.
“ ”