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with clips today from the daily show Countdown with Keith Ulmerman, The Rachel Maddo Show on the

media at The Young Turks and The Show. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs have Admiral

Mullen will be out and I'm going to get a chance to ask him about the one place that is on

everybody's mind. Yaman, the nation of Yaman, the terror trail leads back to Yaman.

It's the subject of our new segment by Yaman.

Should the people that men in are thrilled with us right now? So where is this new nexus of terror?

Fire up the Google Maps with the flying and the zoom-in and the complete and total lack of contacts!

Oh, Yaman is next to Oman. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry, quick question. Where's Oman?

I know that the Yaman thing complicates the war on terror, but on the plus side,

getting attacked is really the only way we Americans learn about world geography.

But we've been in this situation before. Random country, we've never really heard of a tax

and there's a laundry list of reasons as to why it is an existential and hopeless situation.

It's time once again if you'll join me to play War on Terror Sad Lives.

A tragic game for ages 9 to 99. Let's begin. I can assume Al-Qaeda cannot be stopped in Yaman

because... The government has been battling two other internal wars, one with Shiite rebels in

the north and another with separatists in the south. Oh, only two looming civil wars. There's hope

for you yet, Yaman. And of course the capital city, Sanaa. Sanaa is relatively stable under government

control. And what would happen if I left Sanaa? There's another Yaman, run not by the largely pro-American

Yemini government, but well-armed tribes, many sympathetic to Islamic radicals and militants.

There's always another Yemini. The country is a breeding ground for terrorism because...

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