U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/world/middleeast/28yemen.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=u.s.%20widens%20the%20terror%20war%20to%20yemen&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  After our failed hit on al-Awlaki, it is scarcely news that the U.S. has widened the war to Yemen. Still, the article has the power to surprise. How can a journalist note that al-Awlaki is "a radical cleric in Yemen" but fail to mention that he is an American citizen who fits our Constitutional definition for treason? Noting that our policy is now a year old, how does the article not mention whether this was the first act of the president-elect, or one of the last acts of the lame-duck?  How many hands have edited this piece? After so much scissor work, I marvel that the page didn't dissolve in my hands into a heap of confetti.

Barry Levine