Who benefited from the Yemeni war By Abdulwhed Alsomiee Introduction The militant Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was formed in January 2009 through a union of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda , when thousands of mujahedeen returned to Yemen after fighting the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. The roots of the organization reach back to the 1990s, when mujahedeen who had been fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan, including both Yemenis and foreigners whose own countries refused to let them return, resettled in Yemen and were repatriated by the ruling Saleh regime, Osama bin Laden was among a group of foreign Afghan veterans who resettled in Yemen. Bin Laden began training and financing jihadists in the country in the early 1990s, and formed a militant group called Islamic Jihad in Yemen. AQAP remained highly active. Many Yemenis suspect that the government, in spite of its collaboration with the U.S., also maintained ties with ...
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