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At least four suspected militants killed in Yemen drone strike

ADEN (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and a number of others wounded in a drone strike on a vehicle carrying suspected al Qaeda members in southern Yemen, a local official said on Saturday. Full story

Suspected Islamist gunmen assassinate Yemeni colonel

ADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni military intelligence officer who had been targeted for assassination by al Qaeda-linked militants, a local security official said. Full story

Would shield law have mattered in the AP seizure?

   Demos’ Bob Herbert, The American Prospect’s Jamelle Bouie, The Grio’s Joy Reid, and Center for Constitutional Rights' Shayana Kadidal discuss the chilling effect of the records seizure for journalists and whether the recently-revived proposal of a shield law is just window dressing.

New conditions open possible move of Yemenis from Guantanamo

   Gregory Johnsen, Near East Studies Scholar at Princeton University and author of “The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al Qaeda and America's War in Arabia," talks with Rachel Maddow about why conditions now favor returning some Guantanamo prisoners to their native Yemen and what such a step would mean toward cl

U.N. says there is hope for Yemen if funds are forthcoming

GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen, home to what Washington considers al Qaeda's most dangerous wing, has the chance of a bright future, the top U.N. official in the country said on Thursday, but needs help to deal with a major humanitarian crisis that threatens its stability. Full story

Exposure of double agent at heart of AP investigation

   Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the U.S. government is so keen to find the source of the leak to the AP about the al Qaeda bomb plot, and the rare and valuable al Qaeda double agent whose life was put at risk by their reporting.

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  Associated Press editor: We have never seen anything like this

Top Talkers: Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll joins Morning Joe to discuss the Justice Department's use of a secret subpoena to obtain two months of phone records of AP reporters without notifying the organization. Carroll says the Associated Press finds the Justice Department's ac

  Obama blasts congressional inaction on Guantanamo hunger strike

President Obama blasted congressional inaction in a wide-ranging news conference Tuesday by re-igniting the call to close Guantanamo particularly in light of the growing crisis there in the form of a hunger strike.

  The real terror threat

Chris Hayes talks with Farea al-Muslimi, a Yemeni writer and youth activist whose home village was hit in a U.S. drone strike last week, about what happens to entire populations of people who live through drone strikes overseas.

  Drone warfare politics change in Washington

As the Senate Judiciary held a hearing on the use of drones, host Chris Hayes talks about the implications of drone strikes with author Joshua Foust, independent journalist Madiha and Open Zion's Ali Gharib.

  How Obama has made assassination a component of his security policy

Author Jeremy Scahill joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" and the resulting documentary. "Dirty Wars" goes inside America's new covert wars, and looks at the deaths three Americans, including Anwar al Awlaki, an American Muslim killed in a 2011 drone st

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