The almost two-year-old merger of Saudi and Yemeni jihadists into aYemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) seems to have been a success. Certainly, that is what the suspect packages, including mobile phone technology, on board two cargo planes, suggests. The Saudis have brought funds, the Yemenis manpower. AQAP was described on Thursday by the chief of Britain's Foreign Intelligence Service, Sir John Sawers, as posing a threat comparable to that emanating from Pakistan or Afghanistan.
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