“Yemen is like a bus station — we stop some terrorists, and we send others on to fight elsewhere,” said Murad Abdul Wahed Zafir, a political analyst at the National Democratic Institute in Sana. “We appease our partners in the West, but we are not really helping.”

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“Bahrain is like an inconsistent DSL connection - we slow some terrorists down, we provide other terrorists with the means to hack into sensitive government databases,” said Mahmoud Husein Al-Zahid, a security advisor to the Bahraini government. He added: “It sort of depends on how we’re feeling at the time.”

“Syria is like a post office,” explained counterterrorism director Hassan Ibn Shaheed. “A lot of our packages do not contain bombs.”

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