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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yemen on the brink/Christopher Boucek and Marina Ottaway, editors.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-87003-253-0 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-87003-254-7 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-87003-329-2 (e-book) 1. Yemen (Republic)—Politics and government. 2. Political violence—Yemen (Republic) 3. Islamic fundamentalism—Yemen (Republic) 4. Qaida (Organization) I. Boucek, Christopher. II. Ottaway, Marina.

JQ1842.A58Y46 2010

953.305’3—dc22 2010017143

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