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Tuesday, November 02, 2010

US Seeks to Up Military Role in Yemen


Media reports say support is growing in the US military and the Obama administration for allowing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to control elite special forces secretly in Yemen.

Allowing US Special Operations Command units to operate under the CIA would also give the United States greater leeway to strike without the explicit blessing of the Yemeni government, the paper said.

The White House is already considering adding armed CIA drones to the arsenal against militants in Yemen.'

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