Brian O'Neill at Waq al-Waq, a Yemen blog highly recommended by multiple foreign policy writers, points out common errors made when writing about Yemen and terrorism:
[Bruce] Riedel here has committed the cardinal sin of Yemen-writing: mentioning Osama bin Laden's familial ties as if they mean something (though he avoided the traditional cliche of "the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden"). If you are reading an article where the writer mentions this, immediately treat everything else as suspect. This is the best advice we can give you here.
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