“Al Qaeda wants to kill him. Insurgents who chant “Death to America!” have toppled the government. A civil war rages around him. Most of his colleagues have left, and a top U.S. senator says he should go, too.”
This is the compelling headline of an article in Politico last week about the U.S. ambassador in Yemen, who lives in the embassy with only a skeletal staff left, because the U.S.-backed government has fallen and everyone else has been evacuated. The writer says that this diplomat might have the most dangerous job in the world.
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