Explosive packages reflect new Yemen terror threat
KIM GAMEL and AHMED AL-HAJ The Associated Press SAN’A, Yemen – The discovery of two explosive-laden packages sent from Yemen and aimed at U.S. and Western interests represents a new escalation in the terror threat emanating from this violence-wracked, poverty-stricken Mideast country. President Barack Obama stopped short of linking the failed plot to al-Qaida in Yemen, but U.S. officials said privately they were increasingly confident that was the source. Obama’s counterterrorism adviser John Brennan called the Yemeni wing the most active al-Qaida franchise. Militants from the terror network have been building up their presence for several years in this nation of 23 million people, finding…
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