If true, this comes as no surprise. As I reported on CBN News back in August, lawless Yemen has become an increasingly central battleground in the war against Al Qaeda. Here's more, from the Telegraph:
American officials told The Daily Telegraph the country is becoming a "reserve" base for the terrorist network, which considers it a safe haven.
The deployment comes as Yemen's neighbours said they had arrested "dozens" of al-Qaeda fighters moving in and out of the country. Oman, a moderate Arab state on Yemen's border, is to increase the number of naval patrols around the Arabian peninsula to try to intercept suspected terrorists on the move between bases in Yemen and South Asia.
Fearful that Yemen is in danger of becoming a failed state, America has now sent a small number of special forces teams to improve training of Yemen's army in reaction to the threat.
"Yemen is becoming a reserve base for al-Qaeda's activities in Pakistan and Afghanistan," said a US military official.
"As Pakistan's campaign on the frontier affects the syndicates of terror on its territory and operations step up in Afghanistan, it is a place that offers relief to al-Qaeda operatives."
Ahmed Said Alkathiry, an Omani foreign ministry official, said: "We have intercepted increasing numbers of people who come from places like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia that are moving their operations up through Yemen."
Read it all. Yemen is also having major problems with Iranian-backed Shia insurgents. They're gettiing it from all sides, and the U.S. has to worry right now about the stability of the Yemeni government.