On May 16, AGSIW Executive Vice President Stephen A. Seche spoke with Al Arabiya’s Panorama program on the United States’ evolving relationship with the Gulf Arab states. Seche additionally commented on U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen in a Foreign Policy article: “[Ali Abdullah Saleh] was an extraordinary manipulator. He was continuously sounding the alarm, [warning] that al Qaeda was encroaching further in territory that was thought to be secured. That captured the imagination of CIA and Department of Defense officials who would go back to Washington with a firm determination to provide more assistance, more training.”