First U.S. diplomat to visit Yemen for twenty years, the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is arriving Tuesday, January 11 at a surprise visit to Sanaa in Yemen. Clinton said he intended to go beyond military cooperation to tackle a "comprehensive strategy" to address economic, social and political Yemen that breed extremists."In our efforts to counter terrorism, Yemen became a partner more and more important," she told reporters accompanying him. The U.S. official will hold talks with President Ali Abdullah Saleh faces the threat of Al-Qaeda extremist network, and meet representatives of civil society and opposition political parties.
She arrived in Yemen from the United Arab Emirates, the first stage of a tour in the Gulf still has the lead in the Sultanate of Oman and Qatar. Besides the threat from al-Qaeda, President Ali Abdullah Saleh faces a rebellion in the north, a secessionist movement in the south and an economic crisis aggravated by the depletion of oil resources in the country, with the risk Yemen becomes a new Somalia.
Al-Qaida is increasingly active in southern Yemen, where deadly attacks have multiplied in recent months against security forces. The Southern Movement is campaigning for autonomy in southern Yemen, independent state until 1990, and protested against what he sees as a discriminatory policy of the North.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), based in Yemen and led by the Saudis and Yemenis, claimed responsibility for the failed attack perpetrated by a Nigerian against a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day 2009. Counsel to the President Barack Obama for counterterrorism, John Brennan, had then asked President Saleh to act "decisively" against AQPA to "derail its plans to conduct terrorist attacks in Yemen and other countries including the United States.
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