Yemen - a catch all thread for 2007-2011

[davidbfpo]

At Jarod Parker's request / suggestion I have re-titled this thread - as a "catch all" for matters in the Yemen, on the assumption it will feature a lot more. Secondly I have merged some of the existing threads on the Yemen to this one, so there is a collection of background pointers and comments.

Abu M commends a Yemeni expert Gregory Johnson blogsite which has been mentioned before: http://islamandinsurgencyinyemen.blogspot.com/ and a November 2009 CNAS policy brief on the Yemen, entitled 'Yemen on a knife's edge': http://www.cnas.org/node/3771

Interesting to read the demographic and water parts of the brief.