Obama Aide Confers With Yemeni President on Fighting Al-Qaeda
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President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, conferred with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh today on the fight against al-Qaeda, administration spokesman Mike Hammer said.
Brennan met with Saleh to discuss U.S.-Yemen “cooperation against the continuing threat of al-Qaeda,” and to offer U.S. “condolences to the Yemeni people for the loss of Yemeni security officers and citizens killed in recent al-Qaeda attacks,” according to Hammer, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council.