Yemeni media also reported that the coast guard was increasing patrols to stop any incoming militants after an al-Qaida-linked insurgent group in Somalia, al-Shabab, claimed last week that it would send its fighters to help the terror group's offshoot there.
Oooh, the "terrorists" must be WINNING, huh?
Related: Yemen Policy Plays Out
"More Yemen troops pursue Qaeda; Hundreds sent into strongholds in eastern region" by Ahmed Al-Haj and Lee Keath, Associated Press | January 3, 2010
SANA Yemen - Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are Al Qaeda’s main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said yesterday.
What, this guy?
The reinforcements, aiming to beef up the military’s presence in a remote region where the government has little control, were Yemen’s latest move in a stepped-up campaign to combat Al Qaeda. The United States plans to more than double its counterterrorism aid to the impoverished, fragmented Arab nation in the coming year to boost the fight. General David Petraeus, the US general who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and who announced the increased aid, arrived in Yemen yesterday and met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Yemeni government official said.
Yes, OUR WAR-MONGERING MILITARY is now the FACE of AmeriKa!!!!
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press. The confrontation with Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen gained new urgency after the failed attempt on Christmas Day to bomb a US airliner headed to Detroit.
That's the second time they brought it up, with all the scary words like "urgency."
When I READ URGENCY now my FIRST REACTION is STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!
President Obama said yesterday that Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen was behind the attempt. A 23-year-old Nigerian accused in the attack, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has told US investigators he received training and instructions from Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen....
PFFFFFFTTTT!
I no longer listen to that guy.
And....
"We are told by ABCNNBBCBS that the bomber said this and the bomber said that (just like the Fort Hood shooter) but we never actually get to SEE him makes these obviously provocative statements, do we? Is that because seeing him on a waterboard screaming what his torturers want him to say might give away the scam?" -- Wake the Flock Up
Or that the WHOLE THING is COMPLETE BS!
Yemen’s information minister, Hassan al-Louzi, said Abdulmutallab’s movements are “under investigation. They are trying to uncover where he went, who he met with.’’ The security officials also said Abdulmutallab may have been in contact by e-mail with a radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaqi, during his stay in Yemen.
Oh, the CIA AGENT Awlaqi?
Related (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
Yup, he is Al-CIA-Duh, all right.
You mean Al Qaeda doesn't even exist?
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
Yeah, besides, who would want to be known as a world-class bulls***ter?
Awlaqi, who is in hiding in Yemen, is a popular preacher among Al Qaeda sympathizers, calling for Muslims to fight in jihad, or holy war, against the West. Awlaqi earlier exchanged dozens of e-mails with US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused gunman in the Nov. 5 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 people were killed.
Yeah, right:
MSM Covering Up Military Munity at Fort Hood
MSM Putting the Hood Over the American Public
Taking the Hood Off the AmeriKan MSM
Are the LIES and OMISSIONS beyond belief or what, America?
And YOU THINK you are getting FACTS when you open a "newspaper?"
On Friday, the Yemeni military sent hundreds of extra troops to Marib and Jouf provinces, the Yemeni security officials said. Al Qaeda has killed a number of top security officials in the provinces in recent months, underscoring Sana’s lack of control there.
And CUI BONO? We in there now, with missiles and troops?
And what about the silent Saudi role, MSM?
Why you hiding things?
Tribes hold sway in the region, and many of them are discontented with the central government and have given refuge to Al Qaeda fighters, both Yemenis and other Arabs coming from Saudi Arabia or war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yemen has carried out a series of air strikes and raids against Qaeda hide-outs in nearby provinces last month. The strikes, Yemen’s heaviest in years, targeted what officials said were top leaders in the terror network’s branch there. But the intensified campaign has not yet reached into the strongholds of Marib and Jouf.
Yup, NOTHING about the SEPARATE SHI'ITE UPRISING, 'eh?
Hey, what is ONE MORE MSM OMISSION added to the LONG, LONG, LIST, huh?
The assaults were being made as the United States beefed up counterterrorism aid to the impoverished nation on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, providing $67 million in training and support last year. Only Pakistan got more, some $112 million.
Can you afford that for a plate of lies, America?
Or you, Englander?
Yemen yesterday welcomed a call by Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain to hold an international conference on Jan. 28 to devise ways to counter radicalization in the country, the poorest in the Arab world.
How about KNOCKING OFF the FALSE FLAG CRAP, Gordo?
Have you met Mr. Aswat or Mr. Khan, readers?
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Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Irish Are No Fools
May Day Memories: British Patsies
May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection
Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5
Israeli Connections to the London Tube Bombs
You, GET MY POINT, Gordo?
Brown said he hopes the meeting will coordinate donor efforts to help the government of Yemen and identify counterterrorism needs there. Louzi, the information minister, said the gathering should address “all aspects’’ of the terror issue, including the widespread poverty and underdevelopment that Yemeni officials say fuel Al Qaeda’s spread in the country.
Oh, I AGREE on the NEED to alleviate those LAST TWO; however, the TRUTH about GOVERNMENT CREATED, FUNDED, and DIRECTED "terror" -- and its LYING MSM MOUTHPIECE -- MUST be PART of the EQUATION!!
“Whoever wants to build Yemen’s stability and build its democratic and modern values must help it, and not only in security but in development,’’ he said. “The most important problems in Yemen are economic at their root.’’
So this is ABOUT $$$ after all!!
Isn't $67 MILLION enough?
And you always want to make that MSM bridge.
"Pirates hijack cargo ship and tanker
LONDON - A cargo ship and a chemical tanker have both been hijacked by pirates in the perilous waters off the coast of Somalia, officials said yesterday. The seizures bring to four the number of ships hijacked in the past week and indicate that piracy remains a serious problem, a year after an international naval armada began deploying off Somalia to protect shipping.
Yeah, SOMETHING STINKS about that WHOLE THING!
The British-flagged Asian Glory was taken late Friday roughly 600 miles east of Somalia, said Commander John Harbour, a spokesman with the European Union task force charged with combating piracy off Somalia. The same day, the Singaporean-flagged Pramoni, a chemical tanker with a crew of 24, was seized by pirates in the heavily defended Gulf of Aden, one of the world’s busiest waterways.
--more--"
Notice the GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTIONS, readers?
And HOW can the WORLD'S NAVIES be missing SO MUCH is such a SMALL AREA, huh?
STINK!
