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However, when he calls the Yemeni "president" to congratulate him on his efforts against AQ - trying to make it appear that it was the Yemeni Air Force (as was initially reported in the region) makes it look like he doesn't have the cahones to stand and say it was the US that did it.
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Its because the Yemeni president is having a little long running civil war and a war with "al-qaida" fundamentalists. And as america for some strange reason isn't very popular with much of the population in the region he doesn't want to loudly announce that he is allied with America and they are doing his bomb strikes for him as that will boost the opposition in the civil war.
Seriously, just allowing ship refueling caused them tons of problems, why on earth would they push publicity on air strikes.