The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's war in Arabia
By Gregory Johnsen
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A gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States
Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an unforgiving View more
Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an unforgiving View more
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The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's war in Arabia
9781922072108
Scribe
26 November 2012
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'Hardened jihadis, drones and suicide bombers, the complexities of jihadi bloodlines, Yemeni tribal politics, and the confusion initially shown by US agencies when dealing with this most foreign of po...
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Author Biography
Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright fellow in Yemen, is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University and the author of the blog Waq al-waq. His essays on Yemen have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Newsweek. A frequent commentator and guest on NPR and CNN, Johnsen has also been a Fulbright-Hays fellow in Egypt and a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan.