08 Jan 2010 Yemen insisted yesterday that it could handle its own mounting security challenges without any direct foreign intervention, pointedly warning Washington to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. While welcoming US intelligence and technological co-operation, the Deputy Prime Minister for Defence and Security, Rashad al-Alimi, told a crowded news conference in the capital, Sana'a, that the government did not want foreign troops on its soil.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/defiant-yemen-tells-us-soldiers-to-keep-out-1861389.html
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