Welcome to the New Terror Heartland

BY Shane Harris, Tim Mak

03.25.15 

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America’s ally in Yemen is gone. Its special forces have been evacuated. A country touted by the President as a counterterror ‘model’ is poised to be an ISIS and al Qaeda playland. 

Now that U.S. forces have left Yemen and the country’s president has fled in the face of Iranian-backed rebels, the United States has a dramatically diminished capability to combat al Qaeda and ISIS militants who have rooted themselves in the war-torn country and pose a threat to the West, experts and lawmakers said.