Al-Qaeda veterans 'are flooding into Yemen'

In the gloomiest internal assessment of Yemen's security yet, he said jihadis from across the Arab world are hiding in the lawless hills of Shabwa province where the so-called Christmas Day "underwear bomber" is thought to have been trained, its governor, Ali Hasan al-Ahmadi, said.

"There are dozens of Saudi and Egyptian al-Qaeda militants who came to the province," said Shabwa's governor, Ali Hasan al-Ahmadi.

Telegraph

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