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January 7, 2015

Greenfield on the “Turning Point” in Yemen

By Danya Greenfield

Bloomberg quotes Rafik Hariri Center Deputy Director Danya Greenfield on the recent bombing at the police academy in Yemen’s capital: 

Those gains are now being challenged and amid the violence sectarian lines are hardening, with the Houthis losing support among Yemenis who initially tolerated them, according to Danya Greenfield, a Yemen specialist at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

“This is definitely a real turning point,” Greenfield said of the string of anti-Houthi attacks. “There is going to be a long bloodletting back and forth in trying to define who has the upper hand.”

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