- Salon.com: Obama set to escalate secret war in Yemen - The Obama Administration has U.S. military trainers on the ground in Yemen and has already launched an attack and possibly multiple attacks in the country, drawing relatively little public attention and virtually no debate in Congress. http://www.salon.com/news/yemen/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/11/11/american_airstrikes_yemen 4 comments politics