U.S. says Yemen group one of many al Qaeda branches

2010/01/21 00:37:41 @Reuters: World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Yemen has made progress in its U.S.-backed fight against al Qaeda, but the extremist group continues to spread elsewhere and has some two dozen affiliates across a swath of the globe, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IEWeUJzH164:5oIvBXefSm0:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IEWeUJzH164:5oIvBXefSm0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=IEWeUJzH164:5oIvBXefSm0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IEWeUJzH164:5oIvBXefSm0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=IEWeUJzH164:5oIvBXefSm0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/IEWeUJzH164" height="1" width="1"/
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