I always think "MSM Mission Accomplished" when that happens.
Say what, start another war and then not cover it? MSM MODUS OPERANDI!
"Yemeni clerics warn US on troops" by Associated Press | January 15, 2010
SANA, Yemen - A group of prominent Muslim clerics warned yesterday that they will call for jihad, or holy war, if the United States sends troops to fight Al Qaeda in Yemen.
The group of 15 clergymen includes the highly influential Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, whom the United States has branded a spiritual mentor of Osama bin Laden but who is also courted by the Yemeni government for his important backing.
Related: How Do You Talk to "Al-CIA-Duh?"
The clerics’ warning goes straight to the Yemeni government’s dilemma in cooperating with Washington against an Al Qaeda offshoot. In doing so, Yemen’s weak regime must avoid upsetting Zindani and other radical Islamic figures whose support it needs to stay in power.
“If any foreign country insists on aggression and the invasion of the country or interference, in a military or security way, Muslim sons are duty-bound to carry out jihad and fight the aggressors,’’ the clerics said in a statement.
President Obama has said he does not plan to send American combat troops to Yemen, though Washington is increasing counterterrorism aid and training to Yemeni forces to battle the offshoot group, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
He doesn't really need to:
"the FBI and the CIA, having a "permanent" presence in Yemen since 2003."
Let the missiles fly, right, Obomber?
Concern about the capabilities of these militants increased after the attempted bombing of a US airliner shortly before it landed in Detroit on Dec. 25. US investigators say the Nigerian suspect in the attempt told them he received training from Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
Yeah, yeah, we all know about the BS Christmas Day story.
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Well, they must have listened to the "terrorist" because no troop announcement yet.
Somebody say something about missiles?
"Yemen says country’s Qaeda military leader killed" by Ahmed al-Haj, Associated Press | January 16, 2010
What, again?
SANA, Yemen - Yemeni warplanes struck outside a desert village near the border with Saudi Arabia yesterday, killing six Al Qaeda operatives, including the group’s top military leader in the country, security officials said.
The military chief, who escaped a government attack targeting him last month, was one of Yemen’s most-wanted militants and had plotted to assassinate the US ambassador.
Yemen, with the help of US counterterrorism aid and training, has intensified an offensive against an Al Qaeda offshoot that has dug in to pockets of the mountainous, impoverished nation, sometimes under the protection of powerful local tribes that have their own grievances with the weak government.
That's the "terrorists' wherever they are found to be opposing U.S. policy.
It was not immediately clear whether the United States was directly involved in yesterday’s strike. Yemen’s government, which depends in part on the support of powerful Islamic radicals to maintain its fragile hold on power, is deeply wary of being seen as too closely allied with Washington. Four of those killed were on Yemen’s list of most-wanted Al Qaeda figures, including Qassim al-Raimi, the top military chief in the terrorist network’s offshoot in Yemen. The attack took place near the village of Yatama, about 120 miles northeast of the capital, Sana.
Yemen has wrongly reported his death in the past.
That way you can KILL 'EM AGAIN! The Amurkn public ain't gonna know any better; they here a name, that's all. You can use it over and over again and they still won't pick up on it.
A written statement from the government’s Supreme Security Committee said that this time it had intelligence that Raimi was among those in two cars that were destroyed in the air strike on the edge of Jouf Province.
Oh, well, "intelligence."
We ALL KNOW THAT is NEVER "WRONG," 'eh, America?
Still in Iraq, right?
Jouf’s provincial governor, Hussein Hazib, confirmed six Al Qaeda militants were killed, but said he did not yet know their identities.
Then how do you know they are "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Al Qaeda’s Yemen and Saudi operations merged a year ago to form Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and Raimi had been influential in strengthening the group. Raimi “is really the individual who has done most for Al Qaeda in terms of rebuilding and reorganization,’’ said Gregory Johnsen, a specialist on Yemen at Princeton University. But although Raimi’s death might be a victory for the US-backed government, Johnsen said Al Qaeda now has a durable enough infrastructure in Yemen to keep going.
In 2005, Raimi was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for plotting a bomb attack in the capital’s diplomatic quarter and planning to assassinate the American ambassador. Neither plot was carried out. Raimi escaped from prison in February of 2006 with 21 other militants who fled through a 200-yard tunnel that ended inside a mosque.
Pffft!
Yeah, no plots carried out and he "escaped" from prison.
I'm just not buying official bullshit anymore, readers. I don't know what really happened, and I don't care. The guy is "Al-CIA-Duh," case closed!
Also among the dead in yesterday’s strike was Ammar al-Waeli, who was accused of involvement in a July 2007 suicide bombing that killed eight Spanish tourists and two Yemenis visiting a temple in central Yemen.
Yeah, we only kill "terrorists" with our missiles, no matter who they be.
Related: Saudi warplanes attack northern Yemen again
For some reason, the American *ewsmedia ignores things like that.
And WHO is SUPPLYING the "terrorists?"
Why, YOU ARE, America!!!!
How these guys are allowed out of the country I'll never know, BUT....
"Dozens of Muslim ex-convicts believed to have traveled to Yemen, report says" by Associated Press | January 20, 2010
WASHINGTON - US law enforcement authorities believe that as many as three dozen Americans who converted to Islam in prison have traveled to Yemen, possibly to train with Al Qaeda, according to a Senate report.
The “radicalization’’ of the individuals has alarmed US officials even though no evidence has immediately tied them to terrorist activities. Several of the individuals have “dropped off the radar’’ for weeks at a time and continue to carry US passports, according to a copy of the report obtained by the Associated Press.
So the CIA is RECRUITING in the JAILS NOW, huh?
The assessment was written by staff working for Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts. “Al Qaeda’s recruitment tactics also have changed,’’ Kerry wrote in an introduction to the report. “The group seeks to recruit American citizens to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States.’’
You can see the SELF-JUSTIFYING EXCUSE for TYRANNY being BUILT on a LIE, can't you, readers? I can. Been coming into focus for a long time.
So when is the next false-flag terror event, Senator?
Al Qaeda forces in Yemen have emerged in recent months as a pressing threat to US security, with ties to the recent airline bombing plot and Fort Hood shooting.
Yup, the MSM myth repeated and repeated and repeated. Pffft!
The White House and Pentagon have said there are no plans to send ground troops there, and Yemen has made clear it wouldn’t want them. Remaining options to defeat the terrorist threat there would include covert strikes against Al Qaeda targets and increased aid to help train and equip Yemen’s own security forces.
That's why we don't hear much about Yemen anymore.
"Covert action programs, a particularly secret category in which the role of the United States is hidden"
Nice job of covering up, MSM!
In addition to its finding that Al Qaeda was actively trying to attract “nontraditional followers’’ that could penetrate US security, the staff report concludes that the militant group has remained a viable threat.
I'm scared. Aren't you?
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And I guess they didn't get that guy after all, readers!
SANA, Yemen - Yemeni air strikes yesterday targeted one of the country’s most wanted Al Qaeda figures for the second time in a week, security officials said.
The target was Ayed al-Shabwani, whom officials accuse of providing sanctuary for top Al Qaeda figures in the country.
Oh, different guy.
Yemeni forces bombed a farm in an area east of the capital, Sana, where a number of Al Qaeda leaders are believed to be living. It was not immediately clear whether anyone was hurt....
F***ing war crime!
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"Yemen: Terrorist Haven or Chess Piece?
So is the current uproar over Yemen a case of a U.S. administration overreacting and stumbling into yet another quagmire in the Middle East? Or is this talk about a “global danger” just a smokescreen to allow the Americans to prop up the increasingly isolated and unpopular regime in Saudi Arabia? Maybe both, but at least one respected analyst suggests that the game in play is considerably larger than the Arabian Peninsula and may have more to do with the control of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea than with hunting down al-Qaeda in the Yemeni wilderness."
Nothing is ever as it seems in AmeriKa's Zionist newspapers.
Related: Yemen: Toward Another US Quagmire
Better keep those "terrorists" here then, huh?"Guantanamo closure still a long way off; Obama needs help from Congress to shutter prison" by Devlin Barrett, Associated Press | January 22, 2010
WASHINGTON - It would take until a hypothetical second Obama term to empty the site, but the recent attempted attack on a Detroit-bound airliner only gave further fuel to those urging the president to apply the brakes to the prison closure.
The young Nigerian accused in that attempt allegedly told investigators he was trained by Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
That before or after the torture?
That detail has huge implications for closing Guantanamo, where about 90 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, many with no clear place to go even if senior administration officials decide they can be released.
CUI BONO, huh?
US officials are increasingly worried that the group that claimed responsibility for the bombing attempt, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is so firmly entrenched in parts of that country that sending detainees back to Yemen could provide fresh troops to the terrorists.
And we are doing that just fine emptying our own prisons, right?
The Obama administration, which sent a group of Yemenis home from Guantanamo days before the failed airliner bombing, has halted further transfers to Yemen for the near future.
Yeah, Christmas means we better keep it open.
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More MSM BS: Suspect in recruiter’s death on path to trial
Also see: False-Flag Friday: Preparing a Patsy
Yeah, you get sick of the s*** after a while.
And what my PRINTED PAPER DECIDED NOT to tell us:
"Saudis find bodies of 20 soldiers on Yemen border
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia --Saudi forces have recovered the bodies of 20 soldiers who had been reported missing in fierce battles with Yemeni rebels on the border, the assistant defense minister said Saturday, raising the Saudi death toll in the conflict to 133.
Quiet deaths, huh, readers?
Prince Khaled bin Sultan told reporters the bodies were found after troops cleared the rebels out of areas around Dokhan mountain, a strategic high point in the rugged border region. He said six soldiers are still missing. Saudi forces entered the conflict with a sweeping offensive against the rebels after they crossed the border on Nov. 5 and killed two Saudi border guards.
So how many "rebels" have been killed?
The rebels, from the Zaydi sect of Shiite Islam, have been battling Yemen's government since June 2004 in a conflict set off by claims that their communities in northern Yemen are neglected. The Zaydis also accuse the government of allying with hard-line Sunni fundamentalists who regard them as heretics. The Saudis have been relying on artillery and air power against the rebels to try to reduce the number of Saudi casualties, most of which occurred when ground forces attempted to move into areas that were shelled....
MSM keeping it quiet because we are losing?
A Saudi general earlier described the war with the poorly armed Yemeni rebels as "close to a guerrilla war."
On Friday, the rebel leader, Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi, appeared in a video posted on the group's Web site to disprove Yemeni government claims that he was killed in an attack last month. Al-Hawthi was shown sitting on a chair and speaking into a microphone.
Need I even type it?
"These claims have no basis in truth and are just an excuse to justify their crimes against civilians," he said.
Yup.
In a statement Saturday, al-Hawthi said new Saudi airstrikes killed 16 civilians in several places and the rebels destroyed a tank.
Remember, did NOT make my PAPER or the WEB VERSION!
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