War on terrror
The closure of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen
has forced the CIA to significantly scale back its counterterrorism presence in
the country, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said the
evacuation represents a major setback in operations against al-Qaeda’s most dangerous
affiliate.
The spy agency has
pulled dozens of operatives, analysts and other staffers from Yemen as part of
a broader extraction of roughly 200 Americans who had been based at the embassy
in Sanaa, officials said. Among those removed were senior officers who worked
closely with Yemen’s intelligence and security services to target al-Qaeda
operatives and disrupt terrorism plots often aimed at the United States.
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