World Briefing | Middle East: Yemen: Qaeda Affiliate Urgesjoint Blockade of Red Sea 

February 9, 2010, 9:36 am

The Yemen-based wing of Al Qaeda called Monday for a regional holy war and a blockade of the Red Sea to cut off shipments to Israel. In an audio recording posted on a jihadist Web site, the group’s deputy leader, Said Ali al-Shihri, called on the Somali insurgent group Shabab to help block the strait that separates Yemen from the Horn of Africa. Read More »

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