PARIS, April 20: Edward Luck, the Columbia University international relations specialist, has said that Yemen could be the next target of US military. Interviewed by Le Journal du Dimanche, Professor Luck said that “from now on, the attacks will be at no country in particular, but will target precisely delimited areas in neighbouring countries — with Yemen more likely to be the next target than Syria — that US strategists consider contain important populations of terrorists. Moreover, the attacks heretofore will be undertaken with the accord of the governments in question.”

As for Syria, he admits that “the Bush administration has placed pressure on Damascus to settle by itself the problems linked to its support of terrorism, its possible possession of chemical arms and its harbouring of confederates of the Saddam regime, perhaps Saddam itself.”