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Gregory Johnsen Reports on CIA Building Secret Mideast Base to Launch Drone Attacks in Yemen
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The CIA is building a secret air base in the Middle East to serve as a launching pad for armed drone to strike Yemen. Since December 2009, U.S. strikes in Yemen have been carried out by the U.S. military with intelligence support from the CIA. Now, the spy agency is preparing to carry out drone strikes itself alongside the military campaign. The Wall Street Journal reports the CIA, in coordination with Saudi Arabia, has been ramping up its intelligence gathering efforts in Yemen in recent months to support a sustained drone campaign. We speak with Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen and now a graduate student in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University.
Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, now a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
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