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The joint secret operations were seen as proof of Obama’s counterterrorism strategy, which is based on closely working with foreign partners.
“President [Ali Abdullah] Saleh was serious about going after al-Qaeda and wasn’t going to resist our encouragement,” the senior US security official said.
The broad US involvement in Yemen came to light recently through a series of visits by high-level American military officials.
They included the rarely seen JSOC commander, Vice Adm. William H. McRaven, White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan and Gen. David H. Petraeus, head of US Central Command.
The Obama strategy of working with foreign partners is seen as a sharp contrast to the do-it-alone counterterrorism policies of the Bush administration.
But the far-reaching US military role in Yemen could backfire for the Saleh regime, especially that tribal, political and religious groups resent American interference.
Several prominent Yemeni scholars had threatened to declare war if American troops were sent to Yemen.
Smelling trouble, Saleh has repeatedly reaffirmed opposition to Western intervention in his country’s fight against al-Qaeda.
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