Yemenis 'more fearful of US than al-Qaeda'

A Human Rights Watch researcher says the US drone program has made Yemenis more suspicious and fearful of Americans than of Al Qaeda.

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Human Rights Watch researcher Letta Tayler says the United States drone program has made Yemenis more suspicious and fearful of Americans than of Al Qaeda.

Ms Tayler told Kristina Kukolja she and her colleagues from the New-York based organisation experienced this first hand when they travelled to Yemen to conduct their investigation.

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