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Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East policy at the Brookings Institution. He served 30 years in the CIA and has traveled extensively throughout Yemen. His 2008 book, The Search for Al Qaeda, will come out in paperback in March/April 2010.
