Terrorism’s new hot spots
By Elizabeth Palmer, Khaled Wasef and Tucker Reals
Investigators believe Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received practical lessons in terrorism in Yemen – a small country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
It is a desperately poor, failed state; the perfect place for al Qaeda to regroup when Islamic radicals were forced out of neighboring Saudi Arabia by a government security crackdown. They also came in from Iraq and Afghanistan, pushed out by American military operations.
Reunited in Yemen, top militants banded together under the new banner of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) — the Yemen-based group which claimed responsibility for training and equipping Abdulmutallab.
The government in Yemen doesn’t seem to be fully able to get a fix on the problem and deal with it internally,” Sajjan Gohel, director for international security at the London-based Asia Pacific Foundation tells CBS News. “That is a huge concern based on the fact that groups like al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula aren’t just operating on a regional level, they have a translational nexus.”
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