Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of two in New Jersey who publishes the blog Armies of Liberation, has never been to Yemen. She speaks no Arabic, and freely admits that until a few years ago, she knew nothing about that strife-torn south Arabian country. And yet Novak has become so well known in Yemen that newspaper editors say they sell more copies if her photograph -- blond and smiling -- is on the cover.
