RESURGENT AL QAIDA? TERROR THREAT ALERT On this edition of Encounter – Danya Greenfield, Deputy Director at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at The Atlantic Council who also runs the Yemen Policy Initiative and Thomas Lynch, Distinguished Research Fellow for South Asia & the Near East at the National Defense University, discuss status of al Qaida, US policy toward Yemen and the ramifications of the recent terror alert, which prompted shutting down nineteen US diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa with host Carol Castiel.