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"Since 9/11, the greater Middle East has witnessed both externally and internally driven attempts at democratization. Externally driven attempts at democratization have proven to be disappointing in Afghanistan and problematic in frag. It is simply too soon to tell the fate will be of internally driven attempts to foster democratization in those cases where Arab dictators have recently been toppled. At least preliminarily, though, it appears that Islamic radicals have played very different roles in externally driven and internally driven attempts at democratization. While Islamic radicals have played a strong role in resisting or limiting externally driven attempts at democratization, they have played a more supportive role in, or have themselves been limited by, internally driven ones." (author's abstract)

"While the US is more concerned about the presence of Al Qaeda in Yemen, the Yemeni government is more concerned about its more powerful domestic opponents: the Houthi rebels in the north and the secessionists in the south. Much to Washington's chagrin, Sana'a has sometimes seen Al Qaeda and its sympathizers as allies against these other domestic opponents. Although Sana'a has recently renewed its cooperation with the US against Al Qaeda, it is not clear whether it is doing so because Sana'a really has come to see Al Qaeda as more of a threat (as US officials claim) or because it sees making a show of cooperating with the US against Al Qaeda as a useful way of obtaining American resources for suppressing its other opponents." (author's abstract)