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That's kind of conversation to your soul.

That's conversation between your soul and the night. Hello, hello. Hello American Prestige listeners, it's Derek, and I am very pleased to be joined once again by

returning champion, one of our favorite guests. Anel is a research fellow at the Quincy Institute.

And as some of you may have heard recently, things, doings are transpiring in Yemen.

And I wanted to get Anel on to talk about this.

So Anel, thank you for coming on the program.

Thank you so much for having me.

Always happy to come on.

We're always happy to have you.

It would be nice if it wasn't something involving war,

but in this case, unfortunately, not going to get that.

Let's talk about what's going on. The last couple of weeks we've seen the Southern Transitional Council

moving against government positions.

And I always put government in quotes when we're talking about Yemen

because it's not much of a government,

but the internationally recognized government.

Moving against positions in Hadramut, in Mahra,

and now Abiyan most recently in the last day or so.

Before we go into the deeper background about these institutions, what are you hearing in terms of what they've done, what they've taken

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