"Split in Yemen complicates US efforts; Al Qaeda fighters exploit divide to gain recruits" by Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post | January 9, 2010
Remember, readers, the Washington Post is the CIA 's newspaper. so this is straight from the horse's mou..., well, try the other end because that is ALL THAT is coming out these days.
ADEN, Yemen - A hatred of the government in southern Yemen is complicating US-backed efforts to stem Al Qaeda’s ambitions across the region, according to Western and Yemeni officials, analysts, and human rights activists.
"Al-CIA-Duh" again, huh?
What if there is no Al Qaeda?
What if Al Qaeda doesn't even exist?
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"Al-CIA-Duh," right, NYT!So the MSM KNOWS but since they are in the "terrorism business" we get this s***.
The concerns highlight the extent to which the United States, as it deepens its military engagement here, is teaming up with a government facing internal divisions that in some ways are more complex than those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan....
Looks like you REALLY STEPPED IN IT NOW, Obama!!
Related:
Yemen – America’s second Afghanistan and third Vietnam
Was the CIA FALSE FLAG and EXPANSION of the WARS for ISRAEL worth it?
“Al Qaeda dreams of secession,’’ said Najib Ghallab, a political science professor at Sanaa University. “It wants to turn the south into the perfect breeding ground for global terrorism.’’
And that is the ONLY PLACE YOU WILL FIND THEM, dear readers!
Once two countries, Yemen unified in 1990. But a brief civil war broke out in 1994. From the north, President Ali Abdullah Saleh dispatched thousands of Yemeni mujahideen who had fought in Afghanistan as well as Salafists, who follow a strict interpretation of Islam, to fight the southerners.
Yes, readers, that is bin Laden's brand.
Ever since, tension has gripped this vast region. The government’s resources are stretched thin here, as it also grapples with a Shi’ite rebellion in the north.
Yes, do you notice how THAT ASPECT of the CONFLICT receives VERY LITTLE MENTION at all?? It's always "Al-CIA-Duh, Al-CIA-Duh, Al-CIA-Duh!"
Southerners contend that the government has denied them their share of oil revenue, and has dismissed many southerners from military and government jobs. A wave of protests has roiled the south, prompting a government crackdown. Many members of the Southern Movement, a loosely knit coalition, now demand secession.
I think the map explains why we are getting in there in light of this.
“We no longer want our rights from the government. We want a separate north and south,’’ said Ahmed Kassim, a secessionist leader who spoke in a hushed tone inside a car on a recent day in this southern port city.
Yeah, THERE IS NO "Al-CIA-Duh," readers!!
It's an INDIGENOUS POPULATION that is sick of an OPPRESSIVE and LOOTING GOVERNMENT!
In May, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the affiliate alleged to have masterminded the attempted bombing of an American jet on Christmas Day, declared its support for the southerners’ demands for a separate state. The group’s leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, promised to avenge the “oppression’’ faced by southerners.
Thanks, but no thanks, "Al-CIA-Duh."
Southern Yemen, nestled at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula, edges the strategic Bab el-Mandab strait, one of the world’s oil shipping choke points.
Yeah, ANOTHER REASON "Al-CIA-Duh" decided to show up, I'm sure!
It is also a gateway to Somalia, where the Islamist militant movement al-Shabab, which has ties to Al Qaeda is fighting the US-backed Somali transitional government.
Related:
"The video showed the Shabab militia in training, leaping over piles of sandbags, crawling on the ground, and shooting at targets. Bearded trainers, who were white, could be seen moving among the Somalis"
Oh!!!
"Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
Also see: Bridging the Gulf of Aden
Strange how "Al-CIA-Duh" ALWAYS shows up in GEO-STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT COUNTRIES, 'eh, readers?
If they were SMART TERRORISTS, wouldn't they find one that is OUT of the WAY and DESTITUTE?
I mean, we WOULD NEVER BUG THEM or CARE THERE, would we?
When was the LAST TIME you heard of "Al-CIA-Duh" in Bangladesh?
Al Qaeda militants have thrived in Yemen’s southern and southeastern provinces.
Well, yeah, with GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGEMENT and HELP!
They are shielded by tribal alliances and codes in religiously conservative communities that do not tolerate outside interference, even from the government. A shared dislike of central authority and US policies in the Middle East has strengthened Al Qaeda bonds with southern tribesmen. The resentment persists here in Aden, where Al Qaeda militants bombed the USS Cole in 2000, killing 17 American sailors....
Yeah, about the Cole.
Also see: The USS Liberty Cover-Up
Zionist AmeriKan MSM SILENCE sure seems like a PATTERN, doesn't it?Another secessionist leader, Nasser Atawil, a retired army general, said his pension was half what his northern counterparts receive. “What the government is doing will make Al Qaeda stronger here,’’ he said.
Oh, "retired," is he?
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SANA, Yemen - President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he is ready to talk to Al Qaeda members who renounce violence, suggesting that he could show them the same kind of leniency he has granted militants in the past despite US pressure to crack down on the terror group.
So WHEN is the COUP, Obama?
"the United States and Britain will seek to create a new counterterrorism unit"
That's SEPARATE from the government, folks!
Yemen is moving cautiously in the fight against Al Qaeda, worried over a potential backlash in a country where extremism and anger at the United States are widespread. Thousands of Yemenis are battle-hardened veterans of past “holy wars’’ in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, and Iraq, and though most are not engaged in violence now, they preserve an Al Qaeda ideology.
“Dialogue is the best way.... we are ready to reach an understanding with anyone who renounces violence and terrorism,’’ Saleh said in an interview with Abu Dhabi TV aired late Saturday....
Yeah, TOO BAD we receive SO LITTLE of IT!!
And ever notice that ISRAEL or AmeriKa never have to renounce violence?
Yemeni forces recently launched their heaviest strikes and raids against Al Qaeda in years, and Washington has praised Sana for showing a new determination against Al Qaeda’s offshoot in the country. The United States has increased money and training for Yemen’s counterterror forces, calling Al Qaeda in Yemen a global threat after it allegedly plotted a failed attempt to bomb a US passenger jet on Christmas Day. But Saleh’s new comments raised the possibility he could continue a policy that has frustrated US officials in the past - releasing militants on promises they will not engage in terrorism again. Several have since broken those promises and are believed to have returned to Al Qaeda’s ranks.
So WHEN is the COUP?
In the past, Yemeni officials have defended the reconciliation policy as a necessity, saying force alone cannot stop Al Qaeda. In an interview with People magazine to be published Friday, President Obama said he has no intention of sending American troops to Yemen or Somalia. “In countries like Yemen, in countries like Somalia, I think working with international partners is most effective at this point.’’
Why should we believe this Zionist tool of a liar anymore, America?
General David Petraeus, who is overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said in interviews with CNN that aired yesterday that the United States has no plans to send troops.
Yeah, and we heard all this before Iraq, too.
F*** OFF, sirs!
Yemen has said it does not want US troops to be deployed, but the government has been weakened by multiple wars and crises. It has little authority outside a region around the capital, and tribes dominate vast areas of the impoverished mountainous nation. Hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters, foreigners, and Yemenis, are believed to be sheltered in mountainous areas. Al Qaeda Yemenis get help from relatives, sometimes out of tribal loyalty more than ideology - and when the government kills or arrests militants or their relatives, it risks angering the heavily armed tribes.
Have you HAD ENOUGH "Al-CIA-Duh," yet?
Another reason for Saleh’s cautious approach is his regime’s alliances with hard-line Islamists....
You mean, with "Al-CIA-Duh," MSM?
The regime has also used Islamic radicals to fight in an ongoing bloody war against Shi’ite rebels in the north and to oppose secessionists in the south - two threats that many feel the government sees as more dangerous than Al Qaeda.
Yeah, ONCE AGAIN the SEPARATE SHI'ITE REBELLION gets a PASSING AFTERTHOUGHT of a MENTION!
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As for "Al-CIA-Duh."
"the FBI and the CIA, having a "permanent" presence in Yemen since 2003."
They couldn't find this guy, huh?
"Radical Yemeni cleric warns on foreign troops; His influence complicates use of US assistance" by Lee Keath, Associated Press | January 12, 2010
SANA, Yemen - Yemen’s most influential Islamic cleric, considered an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist by the United States, warned yesterday that the US-backed fight against the terror group could lead to foreign occupation of the country.
Well, we SURE HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE!!
Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani’s comments illustrate the pressure Yemen’s government is under to limit the US role here as Washington intensifies counterterrorism aid and training to help combat Al Qaeda’s offshoot in the country. Zindani is emblematic of how - unlike in Iraq and Afghanistan, whose governments are bitter enemies of Al Qaeda - Yemen’s beleaguered regime has built alliances with Islamic extremists to hold onto power.
Branded a spiritual mentor of Osama bin Laden by the United States, Zindani is highly influential among Yemenis.
Then he outlived him.
The United States has labeled him a “global terrorist,’’ alleging in a 2004 US Treasury report that he helped recruit for Al Qaeda and that students from his Iman University were involved in past attacks. Yemen’s government has openly allied with Zindani in the past and still courts his support. The deputy prime minister last week defended the cleric, saying he is not a member of Al Qaeda.
Zindani laughed as he dismissed the US terror accusations against him at a news conference yesterday at his home in Sana. “It’s become well-known among the people that a lot of lies’’ come out of Washington, said the cleric, his white beard dyed reddish-orange with henna in the style of Islamic hard-liners.
Yeah, is THAT EVER the TRUTH -- especially in AmeriKa!!
‘It’s become well known among the people that a lot of lies’ come out of Washington, said Sheik al-Zindani.
And ABOUT THAT "dyed" BEARD, Osama!!!!
"Dying one's beard is strictly forbidden under Islamic law. Any devout (Sunni) Muslim would be aghast at an image of a purported spokesperson with a dyed beard. It's okay to tint it with henna (only), but in that case gray hair appears orange. Pakistan is full of guys sporting huge orange beards, but there is no market whatsoever for Grecian formula, at least not among the Wahhabis. So the story about the new Osama dying his hair doesn't work." -- Wake the Flock Up
Then "Osama" fucked up, huh?
Didn't know the extremist ideology, huh?
Btw, where is Osama?
He denied knowing anything about Al Qaeda’s activities in Yemen or having any influence on an American-Yemeni radical preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki, who is being hunted by Yemeni forces for suspected ties to Al Qaeda.
I hate to say it, but the "terrorist" is MORE TRUSTWORTHY than any government or MSM newspaper?
And about that cleric (color codes my emphasis):
"Airline Terror Mission Blessed by Radical Imam
The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect, a U.S. intelligence source has told The Washington Times.
"Actually, the US Government rescinded a warrant for this guy's arrest in 2002. He was imprisoned in Yemen but released 2 years ago. His fellow clerics openly accuse him of cooperating with the CIA." -- Wake the Flock Up"Khattab (aka Joseph Cohen) Removes All Traces of Link to Ft. Hood Killer Hasan
But whether or not this particular "Slave of Allah" is Nidal Hasan is not important. Certainly the Revolution Muslim user "ooklepookle" is Hasan's friend Duane Reasoner. What is important is that Khattab has been busy removing webpages from his site connecting him to "ooklepookle". When we originally reported the relationship we had to use a Google cache page. All webpages showing "ooklepookle" at Revolution Muslim had already been removed. Google's archive -- a snapshot of what the webpage looked like at a single moment in time -- remained.
Officials: U.S. Army Told of Hasan's Contacts with al Qaeda
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with an individual associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
".... one of the "Al Qaeda" operatives Hasan may have been in contact with was Yousef al-Khattab, aka Joseph Cohen. The Imam mentioned in this article, Anwar al Awlaki, is thought by many of his fellow clerics to be working with the CIA. When he was living in the US in 2002, a warrant for his arrest was inexplicably rescinded by the US Attorney in Denver, an indication that a deal may have been made then. Anwar al Awlaki was also claimed to have been a point of contact for two of the 9-11 accused." -- Wake the Flock Up
Report: Radical Imam Detained at JFK Airport in 2002
The radical Muslim imam who ministered to at least three Sept. 11 hijackers, the Fort Hood shooter and the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. jet on Christmas Day, was taken into custody at New York's JFK Airport on a felony arrest warrant in 2002. Even though Anwar al-Awlaki had been on the FBI's radar for years, he was let go....
The probe of the 9/11 attacks soon led Washington FBI agents back to San Diego, where they found that al-Awlaki had twice been busted for soliciting prostitutes in 1996 and 1997 but had avoided jail time.
Please, not another immoral "Al-CIA-Duh!"
"This guy was released after a US attorney miraculously rescinded an arrest warrant served on the "radical" Islamist upon his arrival at JFK airport in 2002. His fellow Imams insist he is working for the CIA." -- Wake the Flock Up
File - This Oct. 2008 file photo by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Yemen's deputy prime minister Rashad al-Alimi says Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas, may have met in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-Yemeni cleric linked to al-Qaida and the alleged Fort Hood shooter U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)
Yemeni officials say Awlaki may have met here with the man accused of the attempt to bomb a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day.
Also see: Detroit Bomber Works For CIA
Zindani carefully avoided any direct criticism of the Sana government’s alliance with Washington against Al Qaeda. But he warned: “Yemen’s rulers and people must be careful before a [foreign] guardianship is imposed on them.’’
Pointing to the deployment last year of US and NATO warships in the area to protect shipping from Somali pirates, he said: “This mobilization is too large to just be for fighting pirates.’’
Yeah, especially since the PROBLEM has gotten WORSE since they have BEEN THERE!
"Pirate attacks in the area nearly doubled in 2009 over a year earlier, despite the deployment in December 2008 of the European Union Naval Force"
Related: NATO Lets Pirates Go
NATO Has No Limit on Pirate Catch
And CUI BONO?President Obama has said he does not plan to send American combat forces to Yemen, something the Yemeni government insists it won’t allow.
Yeah, and WHO is going to STOP US? Yemen?
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Related:
Obama's Yemeni odyssey targets China
A year ago, Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh made the startling revelation that his country's security forces apprehended a group of Islamists linked to the Israeli intelligence forces. "A terrorist cell was apprehended and will be referred to the courts for its links with the Israeli intelligence services," he promised. Saleh added, "You will hear about the trial proceedings." Nothing was ever heard and the trail went cold.
Sort of the way I am feeling towards my morning newspaper these days -- and not because of the cold outside.
