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Thursday, August 15, 2013

We Got Something Out of the Mass Embassy Closures

Well, some dead jihadis may have been a good outcome over our security kerfuffle with Middle East embassies.

Hey, good jihadis, right?

An American drone strike has killed four suspected al Qaeda militants associated with the latest threat that prompted the closing of U.S. embassies across the Middle East and North Africa, according to a senior U.S. official.

"We got the operational guys we were after," the official said, referring to the four men killed in Yemen.

It really does seem to be all about Yemen, doesn't it?

UPDATE: Given the Yemen angle, this CSIS paper is useful.