:00:05. > :00:14.enemies than they are killing in Yemen? I have to warn you that this
:00:14. > :00:21.programme contains images that may disturb some viewers. Yemen is now
:00:21. > :00:30.the frontline in the with Al Qaeda. The most active and plotting against
:00:30. > :00:37.our homeland. A war President Obama is trying to redefine. One with no
:00:37. > :00:47.troops on the ground. Battlefields have changed, technology has
:00:47. > :00:47.
:00:47. > :00:57.evolved. We commit to a process of closing. What does this new war
:00:57. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:25.actually mean on the ground? We have Guantanamo detainees? Is an
:01:25. > :01:30.America's strategy creating more enemies than its killing? There were
:01:30. > :01:40.more than 300 people in Al-Qaeda. Now we are talking about thousands
:01:40. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:11.fighter in the battle. These rare footage shot by a local journalist
:02:11. > :02:17.was filmed behind Al Qaeda lines. Al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsular have
:02:17. > :02:25.taken over a large part of southern Yemen. The battle last June was
:02:25. > :02:35.about taking it back. He was battling government forces on the
:02:35. > :02:42.
:02:42. > :02:50.ground and American drones in the air. They did not hold the city. Al
:02:50. > :02:53.Qaeda had now returned to fighting in the shadows. We have come to this
:02:53. > :03:00.city, few Western journalists have been able to witness the terrible
:03:00. > :03:07.destruction here. We must hide our identities at checkpoints. There are
:03:07. > :03:11.still drones in the sky. This is a town reduced to rubble. The people
:03:11. > :03:18.first had to deal with Al Qaeda, then heavy fighting between the yen
:03:18. > :03:28.many military and the militants and they are in constant fear of the US
:03:28. > :03:34.
:03:34. > :03:44.planes flying overhead. -- Yemeni. We've come to a safe house where
:03:44. > :03:59.
:03:59. > :04:06.guards can protect us against Qaeda is stored and munition at the
:04:06. > :04:11.hospital. Doctors protested but had no choice. The hospital was hit by a
:04:11. > :04:21.targeted strike. Muhammad and his two children ran to a school and hid
:04:21. > :04:42.
:04:42. > :04:52.in the basement. But then the school son survived, but his eight-year-old
:04:52. > :05:17.
:05:17. > :05:22.daughter led to death on the way to drone hovering in the air. And two
:05:22. > :05:27.jets circling overhead. Several other children were hurt in the
:05:27. > :05:37.attack. What would you say to the people who ordered that drone
:05:37. > :05:44.
:05:44. > :05:54.public support to Al Qaeda but plenty of anger over the strategy
:05:54. > :05:54.
:05:54. > :06:37.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:06:37. > :06:41.this is crucial to America's fight against extremism in the Arabian
:06:41. > :06:51.peninsular. But people here fear US drones as much as they fear
:06:51. > :06:56.
:06:56. > :07:05.Al-Qaeda. Drones are terrifyingly effective. They have wiped out a
:07:05. > :07:15.generation of Al Qaeda leaders. In his only speech on Jones earlier
:07:15. > :07:17.
:07:17. > :07:27.this year, President Obama compared the invasions of Alf then stand and
:07:27. > :07:34.
:07:34. > :07:42.Iraq -- Afghanistan. -- drones. unleashed a torrent of unintended
:07:42. > :07:52.consequences. Some think that targeted strikes are making the
:07:52. > :08:00.enemy stronger. I am from a remote village in Yemen. Just six days
:08:00. > :08:10.ago, my village was struck by a drone attack. He told senators that
:08:10. > :08:12.
:08:12. > :08:22.dreams are dramatically increasing anti-American sentiment. They are
:08:22. > :08:26.
:08:26. > :08:36.ready to fire measles at any time. -- measles missiles. I've come to
:08:36. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:41.the old quarter to meet this man. He lived and studied in America and now
:08:41. > :08:47.runs a pro-democracy organisation back home. He is one of the most
:08:47. > :08:54.pro- American voices in the country. But he says the American drone war
:08:54. > :09:04.is playing into Al-Qaeda's hands. The drones have been one of the most
:09:04. > :09:05.
:09:05. > :09:15.effective tools. A big part of Al Qaeda's power at the moment is
:09:15. > :09:15.
:09:15. > :09:25.convincing you many is that they are at war with America. Yemenis --
:09:25. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:37.Yemenis. We are killing civilians for no reason. And they are not even
:09:37. > :09:43.
:09:43. > :09:50.going to say sorry after that. Or last September in the south of Yemen
:09:50. > :09:57.as an example of when America's silence was deafening. He was
:09:57. > :10:00.working in the field that afternoon. He said goodbye to his father,
:10:00. > :10:07.mother and sister who had to visit the local health clinic and then he
:10:07. > :10:17.went to work on his crops. It was 3pm when he heard a buzzing noise in
:10:17. > :10:44.
:10:44. > :10:54.what had happened. When he got there, he found two missiles had hit
:10:54. > :11:26.
:11:26. > :11:34.local journalist. It is too gruesome to show in full. The truck was
:11:34. > :11:41.packed with passengers coming back from the market. The target was
:11:41. > :11:51.likely a local Al Qaeda leader seen travelling on this road. Over 30
:11:51. > :12:04.
:12:04. > :12:14.taken to the local clinic. They report to seeing at least one drone
:12:14. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :13:21.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:13:21. > :13:26.responsibility and paying compensation are traditional ways of
:13:27. > :13:33.atonement. In an off the record coast given to the Washington post,
:13:33. > :13:43.a US officials did concede that it was a US strike. But there has been
:13:43. > :13:46.
:13:46. > :13:52.no acknowledgement or apology to the families of the victims in Yemen. A
:13:52. > :14:02.hundred AK-47s were also delivered to the families. What does your
:14:02. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:36.community think? Who do they blame are tax -- classified as a covert
:14:36. > :14:41.programme. Public comment is rare. In Yemen, America's actions are
:14:41. > :14:45.debated openly and constantly. Issues of responsibility and
:14:45. > :14:48.accountability are discussed in particular. We wanted to bring this
:14:48. > :14:57.up with the US ambassador. We requested an interview. That request
:14:57. > :15:02.was declined. The Yemeni Government has promised an investigation into
:15:02. > :15:12.the attack but nobody that we spoke to have seen any evidence of an
:15:12. > :15:12.
:15:12. > :15:21.enquiry so far. One group that claims to offer justice and redress
:15:21. > :15:27.is Al-Qaeda. We have heard many reports of Al-Qaeda appearing after
:15:27. > :15:35.airstrikes offering compensation and promising vengeance. Al-Qaeda has
:15:35. > :15:39.stepped in to help rebuild homes. They have provided funeral costs.
:15:39. > :15:45.They also pressure the relatives of those killed to join up to regain --
:15:45. > :15:51.gain revenge. Archiver uses the strikes as an opportunity recruit
:15:51. > :16:01.many more people. If you looked from the outside where this is happened,
:16:01. > :16:03.
:16:03. > :16:09.it is crazy to think how much it has fuelled the anger. I think it is
:16:09. > :16:19.dangerous. Al-Qaeda is in a more patriotic position in the yen --
:16:19. > :16:24.
:16:24. > :16:27.Yemeni Government. In the capital Sanaa political factions are
:16:27. > :16:33.fighting amongst themselves of a new constitution. They are trying to
:16:33. > :16:41.build a new Yemen after the old president Ali Abdullah Saleh fell in
:16:41. > :16:44.the Arab spring. There are two parallel insurgence is
:16:44. > :16:52.in the north and south. Each of them are just as threatening to the
:16:52. > :17:01.existence of the country as the kind of battle. Building a functioning
:17:01. > :17:03.democratic Yemen as a race against time. There are signs he is saying,
:17:03. > :17:09.criminals are running the government. There are other signs
:17:09. > :17:14.saying that relatives have disappeared. Public servants have
:17:14. > :17:23.not been paid. There are times when it feels like this country is
:17:23. > :17:31.deteriorating and is chaotic. In this vacuum the US says there is
:17:31. > :17:41.little chance of capturing suspects. Many argue that suspects
:17:41. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:50.can be caught. One man was achieved propaganda arrest for AQAP. He
:17:50. > :17:55.called for attacks on American targets. He had close ties to
:17:55. > :18:01.another man, the underwear bomber, who tried to explode a bomb in a
:18:01. > :18:06.plane of the Detroit in 2009. In a middle class suburb of Sanaa I have
:18:06. > :18:11.come to meet the man's father. He says he was negotiating a deal that
:18:11. > :18:19.would have seen her son put on trial. Instead, he was killed and a
:18:19. > :18:26.drone attack. Your son was preaching hate and had himself praised
:18:26. > :18:30.praising attacks on America for years. If they could be classified
:18:30. > :18:37.as heck sermons... I don't think it is right for the United States to
:18:37. > :18:42.kill him. But he is accused of being involved in it airline plot.
:18:42. > :18:51.only allegations. They have not been proven in accordance for. -- in a
:18:51. > :18:57.court of law. If there are any allegations against my son, the
:18:57. > :19:03.United States government could have done something else... Going to
:19:03. > :19:12.court but they did not do that. They killed him. He says the ideology
:19:12. > :19:14.that consum?I ? that consumaking many more. There Were maybe 300
:19:14. > :19:24.people in our code of it now we are talking about thousands. They'll all
:19:24. > :19:25.
:19:25. > :19:28.over Yemen. If killing suspects as a source of current anger, it is
:19:28. > :19:36.Guantanamo Bay that is probably the most long standing grievance against
:19:36. > :19:40.America amongst Yemenis. To address this, President Obama says 50 six
:19:40. > :19:47.Yemenis who have never been charged with any crime will be sent home --
:19:47. > :19:55.56. This is likely to be their first stop, Sanaa's maximum-security
:19:55. > :20:00.prison. This prison is whether Guantanamo Bay detainees are likely
:20:00. > :20:03.to be sent. Many details remain unclear including whether they will
:20:03. > :20:10.face trial or be released. Their families are concerned that they
:20:10. > :20:18.will remain in legal limbo but in Yemen instead of Cuba. In Guantanamo
:20:18. > :20:25.Bay D10 is on hunger strike. One of the leaders as a man, a Yemeni
:20:25. > :20:31.arrested only ask an -Pakistan border. -- Afghanistan-Pakistan
:20:31. > :20:34.border. The walls here are covered in pro- Al-Qaeda graffiti. He says
:20:34. > :20:44.they speak to his brother once a month but the conversations
:20:44. > :20:44.
:20:44. > :21:27.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:21:27. > :21:37.monitored. So you see him on the web and many to be locked up. What do
:21:37. > :21:48.
:21:48. > :21:53.casualties, and Guantanamo. The relationship between the United
:21:53. > :22:03.States and Yemen is not easy. In Sanaa the Yemeni Foreign Minister
:22:03. > :22:04.
:22:04. > :22:12.has agreed to an interview. We begin by asking, is America's targeting of
:22:12. > :22:22.Yemen a threat to sovereignty ? A thing sovereignty is in danger if it
:22:22. > :22:23.
:22:23. > :22:29.is done without approval of the government. -- I think.
:22:29. > :22:37.It is making people angry. I know. It makes everybody angry to see the
:22:37. > :22:46.drones coming in... And killing civilians. That is accidental.There
:22:46. > :22:52.are always innocence whether it is drones, tanks, all machine-guns.
:22:52. > :23:01.People get killed unfortunately. Every Yemeni we have spoken to have
:23:01. > :23:10.said that an Al-Qaeda is using the strikes as a recruitment tool.
:23:10. > :23:14.think if your targets are Al-Qaeda leaders, they are endangering the
:23:14. > :23:20.situation of our country, there is no alternative to better these
:23:20. > :23:27.individuals. What are the plans for Guantanamo Bay detainees when they
:23:27. > :23:32.come back to Yemen? The Americans couldn't prosecute them. I don't
:23:32. > :23:42.think they have enough evidence to do that. How can we prosecute were
:23:42. > :23:51.
:23:51. > :23:54.me don't have any evidence that they are Al-Qaeda operatives was ?
:23:54. > :24:02.future of this conflict will depend on whether America can convince
:24:02. > :24:12.Yemenis that they are an inside. Every night in the backstreets of
:24:12. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:17.this city children get together to play soccer. Growing up here in Aden
:24:17. > :24:25.is hard. Their prospects are bleak. Yemen is the poorest country in the
:24:25. > :24:28.Middle East. Corruption is endemic. The rule of law is uncertain. The
:24:28. > :24:37.economy is a mess. It'll take more than military campaigns to reach the
:24:37. > :24:43.country of Al-Qaeda. -- rid. The US argues that provides a lot of money
:24:43. > :24:48.in civilian aid to the country. The noise from targeted strikes as