Posted on 04/08/2015 10:33:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TOKYO — U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday that an Al-Qaida branch is making “great gains” on the ground amid the chaos in Yemen, and that the U.S. will have to rethink how it prevents the group from launching attacks in the West.
Defence Secretary Ash Carter, in Tokyo to work on deepening the U.S.-Japan alliance, said the collapse of the central government in Yemen makes it harder to conduct counterterrorism operations against the group called Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
“That doesn’t mean that we don’t continue to take steps to protect ourselves. We have to do it in a different way, but we do and we are,” he said, without offering any specifics.
The group is known to have ambitions to strike Western targets, including the United States.
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