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Yemeni policemen stand next to wreckage at the scene of a car bombing outside a police academy in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives killed tens of people Wednesday morning as cadets gathered near the police academy in the heart of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, security officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen: Suicide bomber kills at least 33 at police enrollment

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014 file photo, Shiite Houthi men stand near a car damaged by a bomb explosion outside their house in Sanaa Yemen. Houthi rebels in September seized control of the capital, Sanaa, and are allied with loyalists of former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Houthis' power grab has been met with suicide bombings and deadly attacks, mainly by Sunni rivals from al-Qaida and allied tribes. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s al-Qaida thrives on Sunni backlash to Shiite rebels

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

"The aluminum is supposed to act like a heat barrier, keeping the fighter's body heat from being detected by the drone camera system," says an analysis by the Middle East Media Research Institute. (Middle East Media Research Institute)

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula adapts to avoid Predator drones

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 21, 2007 file photo show a MQ-1 Predator controlled by the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron stands on the tarmac at Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad, Iraq. A Pentagon official says the U.S. has started flying armed drones over Baghdad to protect U.S. civilians and military forces in the Iraqi capital. The official said the flights started in the last 24 to 48 hours to bolster manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights the military has been sending over violence-wracked Iraq in recent weeks. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the new flights on the record. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Congress AWOL on predator drone killings

By Bruce Fein

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has a laugh in Boston in this Dec. 4, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

TAMMY BRUCE: Hillary Clinton empathizes with terrorists

By Tammy Bruce

Poster for the movie Act of Valor.

Special operations forces tactics compromised by Hollywood, media reports

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers agreed with President Obama's decision to attempt a rescue of hostages held in Yemen, despite the fact the operation ultimately failed and the hostages were killed. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

U.S. Yemen raid failed due to lack of surprise

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 file photo, Luke Somers, 33, an American photojournalist who was kidnapped over a year ago by al-Qaida, poses for a picture during a parade marking the second anniversary of the revolution in Sanaa, Yemen. Somers has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, his sister said Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. Lucy Somers told The Associated Press that she and her father learned of her 33-year-old brother Luke Somers' death from FBI agents at 0500 GMT (12 a.m. EST) Saturday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Luke Somers killing condemned by Obama

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This image made from militant video posted online by militants on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Luke Somers, an American photojournalist born in Britain held hostage by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen. Somers has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, his sister said Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. Lucy Somers told The Associated Press that she and her father learned of her 33-year-old brother Luke Somers' death from FBI agents at 0500 GMT (12 a.m. EST) Saturday. (AP Photo/militant video)

Luke Somers killed by al Qaeda in failed U.S. rescue attempt in Yemen

By Ahmed al-Haj - Associated Press

This image made from video posted online by militants on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Luke Somers, an American photojournalist born in Britain and held hostage by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen. The Pentagon says a hostage rescue mission last month in Yemen failed to liberate American Somers because he was not present at the targeted location. (AP Photo/Militant Video)

White House confirms failed secret mission to rescue American held by al Qaeda

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Senate Permanent subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, during the subcommittee's hearing: &quot;Caterpillar's Offshore Tax Strategy. Calling Caterpillar Inc., a member of the &quot;corporate profit-shifting club,&quot; Levin accused the manufacturing giant Tuesday of employing an aggressive tax strategy to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Carl Levin: Annual defense-policy bill keeps Guantanamo Bay restrictions

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Security breach eyed at US embassy in Yemen

Associated Press

Gunman clash with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Al Qaeda in Yemen: Islamic State ‘driving a wedge’ between jihadi groups

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Drones are about to be used for much more than military missions, and states already are preparing. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

7 al Qaeda fighters killed amid surge of drone strikes in Yemen

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this file photo released Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, by the official Saudi Press Agency, Saudi pilots sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency, File)

Egypt, Gulf Arab allies eye anti-militant alliance

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, speaks about the operations in Syria during a news conference at the Pentagon. According to current and former U.S. officials, the Pentagon is grappling with significant intelligence gaps as it bombs Iraq and Syria, and it is operating under less restrictive targeting rules than those President Barack Obama imposed on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Airstrikes launched in Iraq and Syria amid intelligence gaps

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

Hawthi Shiite rebels chant slogans at the compound of the army's First Armored Division, after they took it over, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Heavily armed Yemeni Shiite militiamen took over the headquarters and house of a powerful army general allied to Sunni Islamists on Monday and set up checkpoints across the capital, Sanaa, after sweeping across the city as the general and his allies fled and went into hiding. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Rocket fired at U.S. Embassy in Yemen; Al Qaeda-linked group claims credit

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Smokes rises from near the Yemeni Government TV building, background, during clashes between Sunni militiamen and Hawthi Shiite rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Hawthi fighters and militias and army units allied with the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah party battled in Sanaa for a third day Saturday in clashes that have shaken the Yemeni capital, killed over 120 people, and led to thousands fleeing their homes. The violence raises fears that this chronically unstable country could be dragged into the sort of sectarian conflicts that have plagued other nations in the region. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

State evacuates some from Yemen embassy

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Smokes rises from an area due to clashes between Sunni militiamen and Hawthi Shiite rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. Yemen's top security body imposed an overnight curfew in restive areas of the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday after Shiite rebels took over the state television building amid heavy clashes and the U.N. envoy to the country signaled that a deal had been reached to end the violence. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen government signs peace deal with Shiites

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Smokes rises from near the Yemeni Government TV building, background, during clashes between Sunni militiamen and Hawthi Shiite rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Hawthi fighters and militias and army units allied with the Muslim Brotherhood's Islah party battled in Sanaa for a third day Saturday in clashes that have shaken the Yemeni capital, killed over 120 people, and led to thousands fleeing their homes. The violence raises fears that this chronically unstable country could be dragged into the sort of sectarian conflicts that have plagued other nations in the region. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen sets curfew as fighting with Shiite rebels roils capital

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press