Saudis Chase Khat-Runners on Yemen’s Border as Unrest Drives Migrant Wave

By Glen Carey
Three men sprint across the sand- swept asphalt road along the frontier between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Colonel Abdullah Bin Mahfouz gets a glimpse of them from his car, before they disappear into the desert bush.
The 28-year veteran of the Saudi Border Guard shrugs. “Our intelligence will pick them up,” he says. “We expect anything, any time. It’s very difficult.”
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