The group in Yemen, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is believed to have ties with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.passenger jet on December 25.
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Swift found that it wasn't the drone campaign that had swelled the ranks of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula but rather because thegroup was able to offer jobs to desperately poor young men.
Letter, possibly from bin Laden, to the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (PDF) The author tells group to focus on the United States, not the Yemeni government .