What the Globe has given me these last months:
"US drones killed 10 Al Qaeda militants — one believed to be a top bomb maker — in two strikes targeting moving vehicles in Yemen, officials and the country’s state-run agency said Tuesday."
All bad guys, always bad guys.
"No.2 Al Qaeda leader in Yemen reported killed; Saudi national, 6 others believed targeted by drone" by Ahmed al-Haj | Associated Press, September 11, 2012
SANA, Yemen — An apparent US drone strike killed Al Qaeda’s number two leader in Yemen along with six others traveling with him in one car on Monday, Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for American-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation.
Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by a missile after leaving a house in the southern province of Hadramawt, according to Yemeni military officials.
Wasn't this guy killed like two years ago? What do they do, once the list is finished start over again with the names because the American public won't know any better? It's like a rolling rolodex of phantoms to justify drone missile slaughter.
They said the missile was believed to have been fired by a US-operated, unmanned drone aircraft.
Two senior US officials confirmed Shihri’s death but could not confirm any US involvement in the airstrike. The United States does not usually comment on such attacks although it does use drones to go after Al Qaeda members in Yemen, which is considered a crucial battleground with the terror network.
Yemeni military officials said that a local forensics team had identified Shihri’s body with the help of US forensics experts on the ground. The US and Yemeni military officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.
Oh, well, now I'm convinced.
Late Monday, after speculation surfaced that the attack was carried out by a US drone, Yemen’s defense ministry issued a statement saying Shihri and six companions were killed during an operation by Yemeni armed forces in Wadi Hadramawt, but it did not elaborate on how they were killed.
Yemeni military officials said they had believed the United States was behind the operation because their own army does not have the capacity to carry out precise aerial attacks and because Yemeni intelligence-gathering capabilities on Shihri’s movements were limited.
A brief Defense Ministry statement sent to Yemeni reporters on their mobile phones earlier in the day only said that an attack had targeted the militants. It did not specify who carried out the attack or when it took place.
Shihri’s death is a major blow to Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, which is seen as the world’s most active, planning and carrying out attacks against targets on and outside US territory. The nation is at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and is on the doorstep of Saudi Arabia and fellow oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf and lies on strategic sea routes leading to the Suez Canal.
Yeah, funny how the "terrorists" always show up in those places.
The group formally known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took advantage of the political vacuum during unrest inspired by the Arab Spring last year to take control of large swaths of land in the south.
Related: "CIA-Duh" Takes Control of Yemen
More bad intelligence. WTF?
But the Yemeni military has launched a broad US-backed offensive and driven the militants from several towns.
That and the local population! Why is that left out?
After leaving Guantanamo in 2007, Shihri, who was believed to be in his late 30s, went through Saudi Arabia’s famous ‘‘rehabilitation’’ institutes, an indoctrination program that is designed to replace what authorities in Saudi Arabia see as militant ideology with religious moderation.
See: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
But he headed south to Yemen upon release and became deputy to Nasser al-Wahishi, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Wahishi is a Yemeni who once served as Osama bin Laden’s personal aide in Afghanistan.
And look who else is back in Yemen.
Al Qaeda in Yemen has been linked to several attempted attacks on US targets, including the foiled Christmas Day 2009 bombing of an airliner over Detroit and explosives-laden parcels intercepted aboard cargo flights last year.
Don't s*** your pants when you read the real story.
Last year, a high-profile US drone strike killed US-born Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been linked to the planning and execution of several attacks targeting US and Western interests, including the attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009.
Related: AmeriKan Missiles Keep Things All in the Family in Yemen
Killed his son, too.
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And just in case you weren't convinced?
"Yemen’s defense minister eludes assassination; 7 bodyguards, 5 civilians killed in powerful blast" by Alan Cowell and Nasser Arrabyee | New York Times, September 12, 2012
Wasn't this guy killed like two years ago? What do they do, once the list is finished start over again with the names because the American public won't know any better? It's like a rolling rolodex of phantoms to justify drone missile slaughter.
They said the missile was believed to have been fired by a US-operated, unmanned drone aircraft.
Two senior US officials confirmed Shihri’s death but could not confirm any US involvement in the airstrike. The United States does not usually comment on such attacks although it does use drones to go after Al Qaeda members in Yemen, which is considered a crucial battleground with the terror network.
Yemeni military officials said that a local forensics team had identified Shihri’s body with the help of US forensics experts on the ground. The US and Yemeni military officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to the media.
Oh, well, now I'm convinced.
Late Monday, after speculation surfaced that the attack was carried out by a US drone, Yemen’s defense ministry issued a statement saying Shihri and six companions were killed during an operation by Yemeni armed forces in Wadi Hadramawt, but it did not elaborate on how they were killed.
Yemeni military officials said they had believed the United States was behind the operation because their own army does not have the capacity to carry out precise aerial attacks and because Yemeni intelligence-gathering capabilities on Shihri’s movements were limited.
A brief Defense Ministry statement sent to Yemeni reporters on their mobile phones earlier in the day only said that an attack had targeted the militants. It did not specify who carried out the attack or when it took place.
Shihri’s death is a major blow to Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, which is seen as the world’s most active, planning and carrying out attacks against targets on and outside US territory. The nation is at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and is on the doorstep of Saudi Arabia and fellow oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf and lies on strategic sea routes leading to the Suez Canal.
Yeah, funny how the "terrorists" always show up in those places.
The group formally known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took advantage of the political vacuum during unrest inspired by the Arab Spring last year to take control of large swaths of land in the south.
Related: "CIA-Duh" Takes Control of Yemen
More bad intelligence. WTF?
But the Yemeni military has launched a broad US-backed offensive and driven the militants from several towns.
That and the local population! Why is that left out?
After leaving Guantanamo in 2007, Shihri, who was believed to be in his late 30s, went through Saudi Arabia’s famous ‘‘rehabilitation’’ institutes, an indoctrination program that is designed to replace what authorities in Saudi Arabia see as militant ideology with religious moderation.
See: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
But he headed south to Yemen upon release and became deputy to Nasser al-Wahishi, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Wahishi is a Yemeni who once served as Osama bin Laden’s personal aide in Afghanistan.
And look who else is back in Yemen.
Al Qaeda in Yemen has been linked to several attempted attacks on US targets, including the foiled Christmas Day 2009 bombing of an airliner over Detroit and explosives-laden parcels intercepted aboard cargo flights last year.
Don't s*** your pants when you read the real story.
Last year, a high-profile US drone strike killed US-born Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been linked to the planning and execution of several attacks targeting US and Western interests, including the attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009.
Related: AmeriKan Missiles Keep Things All in the Family in Yemen
Killed his son, too.
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And just in case you weren't convinced?
"Yemen’s defense minister eludes assassination; 7 bodyguards, 5 civilians killed in powerful blast" by Alan Cowell and Nasser Arrabyee | New York Times, September 12, 2012
SANA, Yemen — The attack came one day after a top Al Qaeda operative was killed in what Yemeni officials called a US drone strike....
Tuesday’s attack came a day after state media in Yemen said Saeed Ali al-Shihri, the second in command for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the Yemen-based regional affiliate of Al Qaeda — was killed along with six other militants by an airstrike in the eastern Hadramawt region.
Shihri, a Saudi citizen released from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 after six years of incarceration, escaped an initial drone attack and made off into the desert, witnesses in the region said, but the remotely piloted aircraft tracked him down.
Yemeni military officials said the missile was probably fired by a US-operated drone. The Associated Press reported that two senior US officials confirmed Shihri’s death but not any US involvement.
Strikes by remotely piloted aircraft against militants in Yemen have been reported in the past, including some against US citizens.
Less than two weeks ago, an airstrike hit a vehicle carrying suspected militants in eastern Yemen, killing eight.
At the time, the AP quoted a Yemeni official as saying that the attack, the third in a week, had been carried out by a US drone.
In July, relatives of three US citizens killed in drone strikes in Yemen last year filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against four senior national security officials. The suit, in US District Court in Washington, was a new development in the legal debate over the Obama administration’s use of drones in pursuit of terrorism suspects.
Yeah, how is that lawsuit coming? And how many more innocents that stand in the way of empire will be killed in the interim over lies and illusions?
Yeah, how is that lawsuit coming? And how many more innocents that stand in the way of empire will be killed in the interim over lies and illusions?
The first strike, on Sept. 30, killed a group of people including Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was born in New Mexico, and Samir Khan, a naturalized US citizen who lived at times in New York and North Carolina.
The second, on Oct. 14, killed a group of people including Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was born in Colorado.
The Yemeni authorities have fought a long campaign against encroachment by Al Qaeda militants, who have sought to show their resolve by striking back....
You know, it's the weirdest thing, but every time I see that term I have to hit the hole.
You know, it's the weirdest thing, but every time I see that term I have to hit the hole.
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"Al Qaeda leader dead in US drone strike on Yemen; At least eight other suspected militants killed in operation" by Nasser Arrabyee | New York Times, October 19, 2012
SANA, Yemen — A drone aircraft fired into a group of people preparing to attack Yemeni troops Thursday, killing a man identified as a leader of the local branch of Al Qaeda and at least eight other potential attackers, according to Yemeni and security officials, who said the drone was US-operated.
The strike was in an area less than a mile from a Yemeni brigade position in the southern province of Abyan, the officials said. One of the dead was identified as Nader Al Shaddadi, one of the top leaders of Al Qaeda in the region. An explosive belt wrapped around his waist was defused by members of the brigade.
The officials spoke in return for anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
Local residents identified four other casualties but said the remaining four were not known to them.
The use of drones in Yemen has been contentious, with critics and some US government officials saying they cause civilian casualties and can fuel anti-American sentiment.
What, you don't think killing women and children and destroying villages should make you anti-AmeriKan?
What, you don't think killing women and children and destroying villages should make you anti-AmeriKan?
US military strikes in Yemen started in late 2009. They were intended to target terrorism suspects, particularly members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network’s branch in Yemen.
The drone program was suspended in May 2010, partly because of concern about civilian deaths, including the killing of a Yemeni deputy provincial governor.
Oh, it became a concern when they hit one of their own and someone important!
Late last month, however, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi endorsed the program during a visit to Washington, saying Yemen’s air force was incapable of carrying out missions at night and praising the drones’ precision as ‘‘unmatched by the human brain.’’
Translation: He wants to keep the job.
In a separate incident Thursday, two people were killed and three were injured when a missile stored in a building used by Yemen’s military accidentally touched off explosions at a training facility in the capital Sana, military and medical sources said.
Oh, it became a concern when they hit one of their own and someone important!
Late last month, however, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi endorsed the program during a visit to Washington, saying Yemen’s air force was incapable of carrying out missions at night and praising the drones’ precision as ‘‘unmatched by the human brain.’’
Translation: He wants to keep the job.
In a separate incident Thursday, two people were killed and three were injured when a missile stored in a building used by Yemen’s military accidentally touched off explosions at a training facility in the capital Sana, military and medical sources said.
The Ministry of Defense said in a statement on its website that the explosions were accidental.
One soldier was killed and another person died in a residential compound nearby. The huge blasts brought panicked students at nearby schools into the street.
WhoTF knows what happened there. What I do know is I no longer believe my pos paper. Maybe that is what happened, but they have lied so often for so long....
WhoTF knows what happened there. What I do know is I no longer believe my pos paper. Maybe that is what happened, but they have lied so often for so long....
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"Yemen’s air force, backed by US drones, has struck militant hideouts in several areas of Yemen....
Who did they claim to kill this time?
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"US drone kills 2 Al Qaeda militants in Yemen" Associated Press, December 25, 2012
Who did they claim to kill this time?
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"US drone kills 2 Al Qaeda militants in Yemen" Associated Press, December 25, 2012
SANA, Yemen — A US drone airstrike killed two Al Qaeda militants Monday in a southern town, Yemeni security officials said, the latest in a years-long offensive against the branch the United States considers the violent extremists’ most dangerous.
Folks, this is about securing a strategic location as it relates to Gulf shipping lanes and Saudi oil.
Folks, this is about securing a strategic location as it relates to Gulf shipping lanes and Saudi oil.
One of the dead was a mid-level Al Qaeda Yemeni operative who had escaped a drone attack 10 years ago, the officials said. The other was said to be a Jordanian.
Whatever.
They said the airstrike on Radda in Bayda province critically injured three militants.
Whatever.
They said the airstrike on Radda in Bayda province critically injured three militants.
The Yemeni militant, Abdel-Raouf Naseeb, escaped death in the first recorded drone attack in Yemen, on Nov. 3, 2002. That strike killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, suspected of masterminding the October 2000 attack against the USS Cole warship in a Yemen port.
Related: Defendant in Cole plot objects to use of chains
Related: Defendant in Cole plot objects to use of chains
Forget the torture for a minute; about the Cole.
So they tortured an innocent man, huh?
A member of the Naseeb family confirmed his death to the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity and fearing government reprisal.
So they tortured an innocent man, huh?
A member of the Naseeb family confirmed his death to the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity and fearing government reprisal.
Al Qaeda in Yemen was behind several failed attacks in the United States, including the 2009 Christmas day attempt by a Nigerian passenger to blow up a plane over Detroit with a bomb in his underwear.
Earlier this year, a band of Al Qaeda militants captured Radda and raised the black Al Qaeda flag over an ancient castle that looks over the town. They also stormed the local jail and freed about 150 inmates, but tribal leaders eventually forced the militants out with the help of the army.
Yes, NO ONE wants "Al-CIA-Duh" mercenaries in their midst!
Also Monday, four tribesmen were killed in Yemeni artillery strikes on areas in the northeastern province of Marib, where armed tribesmen, who maintain ties with Al Qaeda, have been accused of attacks on oil pipelines and power generating stations, security officials said.
Yes, NO ONE wants "Al-CIA-Duh" mercenaries in their midst!
Also Monday, four tribesmen were killed in Yemeni artillery strikes on areas in the northeastern province of Marib, where armed tribesmen, who maintain ties with Al Qaeda, have been accused of attacks on oil pipelines and power generating stations, security officials said.
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And now just across the Gulf:
"US plans drone base in Africa" by Eric Schmitt | New York Times, January 29, 2013
"US plans drone base in Africa" by Eric Schmitt | New York Times, January 29, 2013
WASHINGTON — The United States has an acknowledged security assistance effort under way with Yemen. At the same time, the US military and the CIA are engaged in a clandestine program of using drones to strike militants associated with a terrorist organization, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen.
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Also see: Drone Strike Kills Four Last Week in Yemen
Didn't see a word of it in my Globe. Instead they had some outrageous s*** about Shi'ite Iran sending weapons to Shi'ite-hating, Sunni Al-Qaeda that considers Shi'ites worse heretics than western unbelievers (or so my organ of Jewish war propaganda tells me).
Didn't see a word of it in my Globe. Instead they had some outrageous s*** about Shi'ite Iran sending weapons to Shi'ite-hating, Sunni Al-Qaeda that considers Shi'ites worse heretics than western unbelievers (or so my organ of Jewish war propaganda tells me).
