Bush and Obama have been exterminating YEMEN CHILDREN for a year: NY Times

[v]

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9375236&page=1

Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists
Cruise Missiles Launched Thursday Hit Two Suspected al Qaeda Sites; Major Escalation of US Efforts Against Terrorists
By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE, LUIS MARTINEZ and KIRIT RADIA
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On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.

One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned."

The Yemen attacks by the U.S. military represent a major escalation of the Obama administration's campaign against al Qaeda.

In his speech about added troops for Afghanistan earlier this month, President Obama made a brief reference to Yemen, saying, "Where al Qaeda and its allies attempt to establish a foothold -- whether in Somalia or Yemen or elsewhere -- they must be confronted by growing pressure and strong partnerships."


Until tonight, American officials had hedged about any U.S. role in the strikes against Yemen and news reports from Yemen attributed the attacks to the Yemen Air Force.

President Obama placed a call after the strikes to "congratulate" the President of Yemen, Ali Abdallah Salih, on his efforts against al Qaeda, according to White House officials.

A Yemeni official at the country's embassy in Washington insisted to ABC News Friday that the Thursday attacks were "planned and executed" by the Yemen government and police.

Along with the two U.S. cruise missile attacks, Yemen security forces carried out raids in three separate locations. As many as 120 people were killed in the three raids, according to reports from Yemen, and opposition leaders said many of the dead were innocent civilians.

American officials said the missile strikes were intended to disrupt a growing threat from the al Qaeda branch in Yemen, which claims to coordinate terror attacks against neighboring Saudi Arabia.

The al Qaeda presence in Yemen has been steadily growing in the last two years. "Al Qaeda generally has been pushed into these ungoverned areas, whether it is the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area [or Yemen]," said Richard Barrett, coordinator of the U.N.'s Taliban al-Qaeda Sancitions Monitoring Committee. "I think many of the key people have moved to Yemen."

The U.S. embassy was attacked by suspected al Qaeda gunmen last year.

And the presumed leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, Qaaim al-Raymi, has frequently appeared on internet videos, offering an alternative to the training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"If they can go to Yemen just as easily or easier and get training there and come out again," said Barrett, "all your efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan are a waste of time."

Qaaim al-Raymi was considered a prime target of the attack Thursday but was reported to have escaped the attack. However, U.S. officials believe one of his top deputies may have been killed.





http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091220/twl-49-civilians-killed-in-air-strike-lo-3cd7efd.html

49 civilians killed in air strike: local Yemeni official
Sunday, December 20 12:57 pm

A local Yemeni official said on Sunday that 49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed in air strikes against Al-Qaeda, which he said were carried out "indiscriminately."

Exiled southern leader Ali Salem al-Baid had accused the Yemeni authorities of killing at least 62 civilians in Thursday's air strikes Sanaa said targeted an Al-Qaeda training camp in the southern province of Abyan.

The local official from the Al-Mahfed region, which includes the village of Al-Maajala where the strike took place, on Sunday confirmed civilian deaths.

"The raid was carried out indiscriminately and killed 49 civilians, including 23 children and 17 women," said the official, who did not wish to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.

A tribal leader from the Al-Kazam tribe too confirmed civilian deaths.

"In total, 49 civilians were killed," he told AFP. "Al-Qaeda has chosen to build its training centre on land where bedouin nomads pitch their tents, and the government forces believe the nomads harbour Al-Qaeda forces," said the leader, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

Yemeni government officials said the Thursday air strikes against Al-Maajala killed 30 suspected Al-Qaeda members, and that four Al-Qaeda members were also killed Thursday in a ground raid in Abhar, 35 kilometres north of Sanaa.

Yemen's defence ministry said on its website that "several" local Al-Qaeda leaders were killed in the air strikes. It identified five of them, including Mohammad Saleh Al-Kazimi, whom it said was the commander of the training camp.

The ministry also said that a Saudi, identified as Ibrahim al-Najdi, was among those killed in Abyan.

The province of Abyan has in recent years become a base area for Islamist fighters, including veterans of fighting in Afghanistan. It is outside the control of Yemeni security forces.

Since the air strikes, more than 30 members of Al-Qaeda have been arrested by government forces, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

The New York Times reported Saturday that US President Barack Obama approved firepower, intelligence and other support for Yemen's efforts against Al-Qaeda.

[Cryptvill]

I heard 144 dead. What is the situation with Yemen? Why the hell are we doing this? WHAT THE f**k!

[lee51]

I heard 144 dead. What is the situation with Yemen? Why the hell are we doing this? WHAT THE f**k!

That's my question too: WHY ARE WE THERE???

[Cryptvill]

It simply doesn't stop does it. Next month it will be a new country.

[ImmortalTRUTH]

This is terrorism.. killing children.. 

Predator drone attacks killing civilians in Pakistan = Terrorism..

Barack Obama is a terrorist in my eyes. Crimes against humanity

Arrest Obama,Bush,Tony Blair and all other scum. Insha'Allah   

[Xill]

I heard 144 dead. What is the situation with Yemen? Why the hell are we doing this? WHAT THE f**k!

It's called genocide...  

And people still "support" the troops...
It's about time people wake the f**k up; it's getting near the millions of dead in the last 8 years. Millions brutally murdered.

[Monkeypox]

That's why he got the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Protean]

Hey, hey, Barack Hussei, how many kids did you kill today?

[SpeakUpFightBack]

OBJ

[v]

I'm interested to hear what Webster Tarpley has to say about this.  He has mentioned before that the civil war in Yemen could be used to start a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran; the goal being to create a world wide panic that would create a flight back into the dollar.

[maim]

http://waronyou.com/forums/index.php?topic=13509.msg41517#msg41517


At least 120 Houthis have lost lives and 44 others sustained injuries as US fighter jets took part in air strikes in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa'ada.

"The US air force perpetrated an appalling massacre against citizens in the north of Yemen as it launched air raids on various populated areas, markets, refugee camps and villages along with Saudi warplanes," the northern Yemen-based Houthi Shia fighters said.

They added, "The savage crime committed by the US air force shows the real face of the United States. It cancels out much touted American claims of human rights protection, promotion of freedoms of citizens as well as democracy."

The US military continues its air raids on Yemen's northern beleaguered regions of Amran, Hajjah and Sa'ada which have already been the target of joint Saudi-Yemen offensive against the Houthi fighters.

The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi fighters. The conflict intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the fighters in the northern province of Sa'ada.

The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as large-scale corruption.

The Saudi air force has further complicated the conflict by launching its own operations against Shia resistance fighters.

Houthi fighters say that Riyadh pounds their positions and that Saudi forces strike Yemeni villages and indiscriminately target civilians. According to the fighters, Saudis use toxic materials, including white phosphorus bombs, against civilians in northern Yemen.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004, up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'ada and take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.

[kushfiend]

Wow what a trip.  So now we are actively bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Southern Saudi Arabia (Yemen).

Anyone wanna place any bets on what middle eastern country will suddenly be found "sponsoring Al-CIAda"?

My guess is Lebanon.

[agentbluescreen]

So the plot thickens as the corporate neo-Episcopal-Monarchist/'Christian'ist Tory fascist MI6/Al CIAda conservatisti plot and conspire with their corporate Sunni-Islamist Tory-Saudi monarchist petro-procurators to locate Sunni-fascist so-called "al qaeda training camps" outside of their traditional power bases in the southern Yemeni petty-fiefdom traditionally a Sunni-fascist toy factory of the oil sheiks, locating them now among peaceful democratic-republican Shia (Shiite=Protestant Islam) nomads and minority liberals in the north of Yemen so to incite more hatred of the MI6/CIA/Mossad/ monarchist-conservatist NWO forces murdering innocent Shiites there as in Palestine, Lebanon and elsewhere.

The plan works well allowing the Saudi-Yemeni's to pretend to be shutting down long-well-known (disclosed by NSA) safe houses of the Bin Ladin operations they have always harbored in the safer and cozier south, setting up a new quarter-$million-a-pop game of Bin-Younameit-Whack-a-Mole among a colony of innocent Shiites sure to further upset Iranians.

Now just how stupid do these morons think we are?

[agentbluescreen]

I mean this is like what Alex calls: "Living in the Twilight Zone" the (our) U.S. supposed-"President". supposed arch-peacenik Big Stick peacemaker, the man of peace itself, Nobel up-the-tukas, racial minority-token, Obama the Emperor has the UNMITIGATED AUDACITY TO phone the leader of a nation where his sloppy haphazard war-hammer Nazi morons have just bloodthirstily and wantonly mass murdered no less then at least 23 muslim children at a sitting by "accident" to "CONGRATULATE" HIM - for what?  ^{(who writes this shit up?)}

Holy jumping jackasses Batman!

...Webster Tarpley forgive me for even having a shadow of a doubt about your prognosis...  this isn't just "left cover" it's more like what Saddam would have called "The MuthaF&%$er of All (false)Comforters"

[Eschatonic]

I heard 144 dead. What is the situation with Yemen? Why the hell are we doing this? WHAT THE f**k!

Also, PressTV reports that US special forces have been deployed in Yemen claiming to be fighting 'al-Qaeda.' http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113672&sectionid=351020206. I wonder though, how much al-Qaeda are actually being engaged - probably none. News reports such as the one posted in this thread by maim show that it is Houthi rebels, not al-Qaeda who have been targeted in the attacks so far.

This is very telling. The Houthi are Shia rebels from the Zaidi sect (a minority Shia sect that is on the opposite end of the sectarian scale from al-Qaeda - funny that) who have been fighting against the Yemeni government for the last 5 years or so. In the past it has been suggested that the Yemeni situation was basically a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran as Iran had been supplying the Houthi with arms and that Saudi Arabia, with US assistance was helping prop up the Yemeni government to fight off the rebels. Now Obama wants to weigh in directly on this situation. On the surface it would seem that one reason for this would be to an ill-thought out attempt to dampen Iranian influence throughout the 'Shi'a crescent' of the middle east (or even start something up - an Iranian response elsewhere in the region - increasing the likelihood of further isolating Iran from the Arab states and spreading proxy sectarian wars). Either way the al-Qaeda connection is a smoke screen - my guess is that news reports will reveal that it is the Houthi who receive the brunt of the bombs and cruise missiles.

[chris jones]

I hope that no one thinks he gives a twit, he is odering the slaughter of humans in at least 3 nations. 23 kids does not mean sqaut to Obma and his tribe and masters.

Focus please, they are now in the process of extermination, does anyone beleive that it will stop at our borders.

Though their methodry will be arrogantly deceptive, the outcome will be the same.

This tribe of parasites, are sociopthic, they do not live in our world, their mentality is not subject to the human condition.

[Triadtropz]

Killing children is nothing to Obama...as he rocks the girls to sleep, adoring the chairman Mao Christmas ornaments...he thinks he is on the right side of war as the children's lifeless bodies are buried. he knows he's right he's Obama....

[frenchlifeboat]

maybe it was tidying up loose ends

Imam Linked to Ft. Hood Rampage Believed to Be Among 30 Al Qaeda Killed in Airstrike

The radical Muslim imam linked to the rampage at Fort Hood reportedly is believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that may have also taken out the region's top Al Qaeda leader and 30 other militants.

The raid in Yemen's east targeted an Al Qaeda leadership meeting held to organize terror attacks. U.S. officials believe radical cleric Anwar Awlaki was "probably" one of dozens of militants killed in the strike, a source confirmed to FOX News.

"Awlaki is suspected to be dead [in the air raid]," Reuters quoted an unnamed Yemeni official as saying.


The head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi and his deputy, Saeed al-Saudi Shahrani, were present at the meeting and are believed to have died, but their deaths could not immediately be confirmed.

"The raid was carried out as dozens of members of Al Qaeda were meeting in Wadi Rafadh," a source told AFP, referring to a rugged location about 400 miles east of the capital.

"Members of the group's leadership, including Saad al-Fathani and Mohammad Ahmed Saleh al-Omir, were among those killed," he was quoted as saying.

"Saudis and Iranians at the Wadi Rafadh meeting were also among the dead," said the source, without going into detail.

Awlaki was once the imam at the prominent Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Virginia, where the FBI says he had a close relationship with two of the 9/11 hijackers. He fled the U.S. in 2002, eventually returning to Yemen, where he promoted the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies to a growing religious following in sermons and online.

In an interview posted on Al Jazeera's Web site, Awlaki said he received an e-mail from Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan on Dec. 17, 2008, "asking for an edict regarding the [possibility] of a Muslim soldier [killing] colleagues who serve with him in the American army."

Awlaki, who was born in Las Cruces, N.M., said subsequent e-mails "mentioned the religious justifications for targeting the Jews with missiles." He told the Washington Post in an interview that Hasan eventually came to regard him as a confidant.

A Yemeni official, also speaking on condition of anonymity to AFP, said those attending the meeting "planned to launch terrorist attacks against economic installations in Yemen, in retaliation for Yemeni strikes launched last week."

On Dec. 17, warplanes and security forces on the ground attacked what authorities said was an Al Qaeda training camp in the area of Mahsad in the southern province of Abyan. Saleh el-Shamsy, a provincial security official, said at least 30 suspected militants were killed. Witnesses, however, put the number killed at over 60 in the heaviest strike and said the dead were mostly civilians.

Much like the effort with Pakistan's Frontier Corps, the U.S. military has boosted its counterterrorism training for Yemeni forces, and is providing more intelligence, which probably includes surveillance by unmanned drones, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

The Yemeni Interior Ministry said 25 suspected Al Qaeda members were arrested Wednesday in San'a and it has set up checkpoints in the capital to control traffic flow as part of a campaign to clamp down on terrorism.

The United States has repeatedly called on Yemen to take stronger action against Al Qaeda, whose fighters have taken advantage of the central government's weakness and increasingly found refuge here in the past year. Worries over the growing presence are compounded by fears that Yemen could collapse into turmoil from its multiple conflicts and increasing poverty and become another Afghanistan, giving the militants even freer reign.

The country was the scene of one of Al Qaeda's most dramatic pre-9/11 attacks, the 2000 suicide bombing of the destroyer USS Cole off the Aden coast that killed 17 American sailors. The government allied itself with Washington in the war on terror, but U.S officials have complained that it often strikes deals with militants.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581053,00.html

[Satyagraha]

This is terrorism.. killing children.. 

Predator drone attacks killing civilians in Pakistan = Terrorism..

Barack Obama is a terrorist in my eyes. Crimes against humanity

Arrest Obama,Bush,Tony Blair and all other scum. Insha'Allah   

That was Obama's way of saying Eid Mubarak.

[Satyagraha]

This morning's news shows Senate passed the Death Care Bill, Obama murders women and children, and THESE are the Most Popular articles on the Huffington Post: (what sheeple read...)

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What has to happen before people will WAKE THE f**k UP???

[Anti_Illuminati]

And people wonder how his bosses can premeditatively engineer the planned extermination of billions worldwide with a super flu created from 1918 H1N1 combined with H5N1, H2N2.  While planning to use Ptech to kill the power grid to kill tens of millions from freezing to death from no heat, to make sure that most people cannot fight back against martial law, deathcare etc--because dead men and women can't fight back.

[Triadtropz]

Obama may go down in history as the biggest mass murderer that is not guilty. next to gw bush...once he murders everyone who isn't americanized in Afghanistan, the killing should be well under way...

[chris jones]

Hitler used Gas Chambers, Obys tribe uses virus strains, deception is the methodry, I know its a Mossad standard.

I have been very close to B52's bombing raids. Folks the earth trembles as they dump their loads. day and night.

Can you imgaine the number of human beings disintergated, or turned into minced meat. Civilinians, woman, children, fathers, doges, cats, goats, any living this is exterminated.

i have seen the result, I wish it on no human being. Not even OBY or his crew, Why, they don't give a twit. They get the PHOTOS, they know, they see the destruction, please remember they are not of the same minds as we are, they are in a seperate reality. They beleive, they are sincerly conviced of their superiority over the masses.

The REPUBLIC of the USA under the leadership of this regime are doing this daily, along with their killer drones, or simply with troopers wacking them out.

Tonight OBY will light the tree, I can imagine his dialouge, Joy to the world, love your brothers, humanity unchained, as he hugs his little ones with his dear wife. he is a CON artist elite.

He is a perfect puppet for the masters, a sociaopathic, to include those who are on his team, and his minions of sold outs.

[FreedomFighter]

Wait, we shouldn't be killing terrorists? I hate that civilians died but can someone tell me why we shouldn't be going after terrrorists? I'm new to the nwo stuff and I grew up admiring Bush, but I'm open to hear why we shouldn't be there. I think if these muslim terror groups are planning attacks on us, we should be bombing them.

[stop the nwo]

these "muslim terror groups" are none other than CIA/Mossad/MI6 funded groups. they are not out to kill us Americans for our "freedoms" (or what's left of them). they are there to incite violence against our military so the wars can go on.

the only terror groups out there that are a real threat to us are the Bilderburgs, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, you get the picture. research and think for yourself. turn off the television. the only stuff that comes out of that box is what they want you to know, and it's not ever going to be the truth.

[PullMyFinger]

Wait, we shouldn't be killing terrorists? I hate that civilians died but can someone tell me why we shouldn't be going after terrrorists? I'm new to the nwo stuff and I grew up admiring Bush, but I'm open to hear why we shouldn't be there. I think if these muslim terror groups are planning attacks on us, we should be bombing them.

#1 Define Terrorist.

This is very telling. The Houthi are Shia rebels from the Zaidi sect (a minority Shia sect that is on the opposite end of the sectarian scale from al-Qaeda - funny that)

These are not the terrorists you seek.
I understand your position though, it is very confusing at first.I know there is a thread here that explains better,I just can't find it.

[TheHouseMan]

Once again... they're saying at least 30 were killed. They keep using that 30 number, again and again and again.

http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-22/airstrikes-afghanistan-kill-exactly.html

[chris jones]

Wait, we shouldn't be killing terrorists? I hate that civilians died but can someone tell me why we shouldn't be going after terrrorists? I'm new to the nwo stuff and I grew up admiring Bush, but I'm open to hear why we shouldn't be there. I think if these muslim terror groups are planning attacks on us, we should be bombing them.

I don't want to appear sarcasitc, nor am I doubting your innocence and conditioning.
Lets take a step back, do you remember WMD'S, the Satellite photo shots of the death factories in Iraq, the so called yellow cake purchase exposed by Nigeria, the so alled Talliban support, all of Bushes crew sceaming about the Iraq terroist threat. OK.
There were no WMD's, this was a ploy to invade this oil rich nation. Do you agree or do you beleive we are continuing a search for the so called factories of death, these WMD's??
There were never any WMD's, no yellow cake, no Taliban support, Iraq a soveriegn nation was invaded, illegaly. 1,333,000 Human beings have been killed mostly civilians.
I hope that you are sincere in you questioning this point. Terrorists, who are they.
History is a great teacher my friend, look up Vietnam, 65,000 of Americans sons killed and 3 million Vietnamese, mostly civilians. I'm sure you will discover that this war was strictly for those who profited, the facts are unescapeable.
Compare the wars to the reason given, in time you may discover the truth to the present regimes rhetoric. In all sincerity I recomend you dig into the facts, here on this site you will have ample information, documentated to guide you to the truth.
Welcome to the site, but please be patient, remember if you will that without profit war would not exist.
We have been where you are, beleivers in our Government, who began to seek the truth to the actions our leaders have taken, The constitution, bill of Rights, our conscience and hearts brought us to this search.
The truth is available to whoever can find the courage to search for it.

[phasma]

wow - just as well he got in their first with a pre-emptive strike huh - before the latest plane bomb managed to singe an american airliner !

coincidence?

Blow back for this?

[DCUBED]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usattacksyemenciamilitary

Report: U.S. steps up anti-terror campaign in Yemen

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against the Al-Qaeda terror network in Yemen, The New York Times reported.

Citing an unnamed former top CIA official, the newspaper said that a year ago the Central Intelligence Agency sent many field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country.

At the same time, some of the most secretive special operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics, the report said.

The Pentagon will be spending more than 70 million dollars over the next 18 months, and using teams of special forces, to train and equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces, more than doubling previous military aid levels, the paper noted.

Yemen became the focus of US attention after a Nigerian man, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day, confessed to training with an Al-Qaeda bombmaker in Yemen, security officials told the US media. Related article: Al-Qaeda in focus

The country has long been a refuge for jihadists, in part because Yemen?s government welcomed returning Islamist fighters who had fought in Afghanistan during the 1980s, the report pointed out.

But Al-Qaeda militants have made much more focused efforts to build a base in Yemen in recent years, drawing recruits from throughout the region and mounting more frequent attacks on foreign embassies and other targets, according to The Times.

The White House is seeking to nurture enduring ties with the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and prod him to combat the local Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the paper said.

[larsonstdoc]

Soon the entire region will blow on this phony AL-CIA-DA crap.  

Spending more money we don't have.

The public will never catch on.

When the "lone bomber" in Detroit boarded a plane in Amsterdam WITHOUT A PASSPORT,  you know that it was our government working behind the scenes.  TRY IT YOURSELF.  TRY TO BOARD A PLANE HEADING OUT OF THE COUNTRY WITHOUT A PASSPORT--YOU CAN'T DO IT.  TRY BOARDING A PLANE IN THE USA FOR A DOMESTIC FLIGHT WITHOUT A PHOTO ID.  YOU CAN'T DO IT.  YOU CAN'T EVEN GET PAST TSA WITHOUT A PHOTO ID.

[DCUBED]

Isn't this ironic.  

The CIA is going to arm and train the Yememi military the same way they did with the Afghan Mujahideen (al-Qaeda).  
So the CIA is creating a new "al-Qaeda" to fight the old "al-Qeada, which will create a new enemy for the US and a new patsy for future false flags against the US.

It's exhausting keeping up with the NWO and their dirty tricks.

[bigron]

Instant Karma: New US War Target Gets Its Own Terror Icon

by Chris Floyd

http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m61500&hd=&size=1&l=e

December 27, 2009

Wow, that didn't take long at all. Scant days after the American war machine took the cloaking device off its direct military involvement in Yemen, we have an alleged attempted terrorist attack by an alleged attempted terrorist who, just scant hours after his capture, has allegedly confessed to getting his alleged attempted terrorist material from ... wait for it ... Yemen!

Yemen-trained terrorists on the loose in American airplanes! At Christmas! Great googily moogily! It's a good thing our boys are on the case over there right now, pounding the holy hell outta some of them Al Qaeder ragheads! And to think, a few pipsqueaky fifth columnists had been starting to wonder why we were killing dozens of innocent civilians on behalf of an authoritarian regime embroiled in a three-way civil war on the other side of the world.

Well, now they have their answer, by God! Alleged attempted terrorists allegedly trained in Yemen! What else do you need -- a freaking warrant or something? We would obviously be justified in nuking that desert hell-hole and everybody in it! Just think of it -- some guy with some kind of something on an airplane, right there in the Heartland! You gonna stand for that? Exterminate the brutes!

And yet, because we are good, because we are godly, because our heart is always in the right place, even when -- as President Obama himself admitted in his noble Nobel Speech -- we sometimes make mistakes, we have not brought down the full force of the iron rod that God himself has placed into our hands for the chastisement and right order of the world. No, there will be no nukes falling on the children of Yemen tonight. But boy howdy, they'd better get ready for some sure-enough heavy ordnance -- fired from distant ships, from far-flung bases and from computer consoles in leafy Stateside suburbs, where you can bravely kill some alleged attempted somebody-or-other (and everyone in their immediate vicinity), and still make it home in time to to eat supper with the kids.

So here we are. Just one day after the alleged attempted terrorist incident in Detroit, we already have headlines blaring in the New York Times, the "paper of record," tying the alleged attempt to Yemen. How quick and convenient is that? Already the echo chamber is roaring with the all-justifying cacophony: "Terror, Yemen, al Qaeda, Homeland, Bomb, Terror, Yemen, Yemen, al Qaeda."

And it must be true, right? I mean, just look at how well-sourced the NYT story is. "A law enforcement official" -- Police captain? State trooper? G-Man? Traffic cop? -- said that the alleged attempted terrorist said he'd got his "explosive chemicals" from Yemen. (Elsewhere in the paper, other unnamed officials told NYT reporters that the alleged material strapped to the alleged attempted terrorist was "incendiary," not explosive. But who cares? "Bomb, Terror, Yemen!")

Of course, the NYT noted that "authorities have not independently corroborated the Yemen connection claimed by the suspect" (nor, they could have added, have they independently corroborated that the claim was actually made), but still, the completely anonymous "law enforcement official" said that the suspect's claim "was plausible," and even added: "I see no reason to discount it."

Well, it doesn't get more solid than that, does it? They nailed that story down so tight you couldn't pry it open with God's own crowbar. An anonymous source confirmed the plausibility of his own claim. Man, that's ironclad. It's certainly good enough to light up the media firmament with headlines linking "terror in the Heartland" with the empire's newest killing field in a volatile foreign land.

And it turns out that the suspected attempted terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was already on the radar of our all-encompassing security services -- just like the last Muslim terrorist in the heartland, Major Nidal Hasan. (And, for that matter, just like  many of those accused of carrying out the 9/11 attack.) As in almost all of these cases, the question arises: Who is running whom? (For more, see "Darkness Renewed: Terror as a Tool of Empire.")

But this query is precisely the kind of pantywaist handwringing that rightly goes down in the flood of the he-man Homeland Security strutting that always follows these incidents. As we noted here the other day, there's no time for depth, context, history -- or even facts -- when the "frame" is screaming "Terror!"

In any case, whatever facts about the case -- or rather, shards and splinters of filtered information -- that are allowed to emerge from the depths of the security apparat, you can be absolutely sure that, as always, the "facts will be fixed around the policy."

And what is that policy? Why, endless war, of course! The American war machine (which now dominates most of "civilian" society as well) is like a shark: it must keep moving, and feeding, or die. "Terror, Bomb, Yemen!"


 

[UK Lyn]

That's why he got the Nobel Peace Prize.

Someone needs to make an image with Obama holding his prize, standing knee-deep in the blown apart bodies of yet more innocents...

Peace-Prize, what a fcking joke, the world is upside down.

[bigron]

Officials Eye Yemen War in Wake of Lap Bombing

Speculative Ties to Yemen a Good Enough Excuse for Some


by Jason Ditz, December 27, 2009
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/12/27/officials-eye-yemen-war-in-wake-of-lap-bombing/


Friday’s “lap bombing” did only superficial damage to the Detroit-bound plane, though it badly burned would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s lap. Still, the real fireworks may be yet to come, as some top US officials are looking to use it as an excuse to attack Yemen.

 
Rep. HoekstraSenator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), the head of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was the first to declare Yemen “tomorrow’s war,” urging a preemptive attack on the nation now. Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) concurred, saying an attack should be considered.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) said President Obama should be held responsible for the attack, and also declared Yemen a “hot spot” that needed to be dealt with. He also alleged that the attack was probably somehow tied with US cleric Awlaki, though this link appears to be purely speculative.

Yet so far the only evidence linking the lap bomber to Yemen are his own claims that he is a member of al-Qaeda and got the bomb (essentially a condom with some explosive inside) from al-Qaeda bomb makers in Yemen. Law enforcement officials concede that can’t corroborate any of this.

The link would be extremely convenient for the Obama Administration, which has already been attacking sites in Yemen over the past few weeks. They even helped try to assassinate Awlaki, even though the US citizen isn’t charged with any crimes in the US.

[bigron]

December 28, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/world/middleeast/28yemen.html?_r=1&hp


U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion


By ERIC SCHMITT and ROBERT F. WORTH


WASHINGTON — In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen.

A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent several of its top field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country, according a former top agency official. At the same time, some of the most secretive Special Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics, senior military officers said.

The Pentagon is spending more than $70 million over the next 18 months, and using teams of Special Forces, to train and equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces, more than doubling previous military aid levels.

As American investigators sought to corroborate the claims of a 23-year-old Nigerian man that Qaeda leaders in Yemen had trained and equipped him to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day, the plot casts a spotlight on the Obama administration’s complicated relationship with Yemen.

The country has long been a refuge for jihadists, in part because Yemen’s government welcomed returning Islamist fighters who had fought in Afghanistan during the 1980s. The Yemen port of Aden was the site of the audacious bombing of the American destroyer Cole in October 2000 by Qaeda militants, which killed 17 sailors.

But Qaeda militants have made much more focused efforts to build a base in Yemen in recent years, drawing recruits from throughout the region and mounting attacks more frequently on foreign embassies and other targets. The White House is seeking to nurture enduring ties with the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and prod him to combat the local Qaeda affiliate, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, even as his impoverished country grapples with seemingly intractable internal turmoil.

With fears also growing of a resurgent Islamist extremism in nearby Somalia and East Africa, administration officials and American lawmakers said Yemen could become Al Qaeda’s next operational and training hub, rivaling the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan where the organization’s top leaders operate.

“Yemen now becomes one of the centers of that fight,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, who visited the country in August. “We have a growing presence there, and we have to, of Special Operations, Green Berets, intelligence,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”

American and Yemeni officials said that a pivotal point in the relationship was reached in late summer after separate secret visits to Yemen by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American regional commander, and John O. Brennan, President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser.

President Saleh agreed to expanded overt and covert assistance in response to growing pressure from the United States and Yemen’s neighbors, notably Saudi Arabia, from which many Qaeda operatives had fled to Yemen, as well as a rising threat against the country’s political inner circle, the officials said.

“Yemen’s security problems won’t just stay in Yemen,” said Christopher Boucek, who studies Yemen as an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. “They’re regional problems and they affect Western interests.”

Al Qaeda’s profile in Yemen rose sharply a year ago, when a former Guantánamo Bay detainee from Saudi Arabia, Said Ali al-Shihri, fled to Yemen to join Al Qaeda and appeared in a video posted online. Several other former Guantánamo detainees have also joined the group.

Yemen’s remote areas are notoriously lawless, but the country’s chaos has worsened in the past two years, as the government struggles with an armed rebellion in the northwest and a rising secessionist movement in the south. Yemen is running out of oil, and the government’s dwindling finances have affected its ability to strike at Al Qaeda.

Meanwhile, there have been increasing Yemeni ties to plots against the United States. A Muslim man charged in the June 1 killing of a soldier at a recruiting center in a mall in Little Rock, Ark., had traveled to Yemen, prompting a review by the F.B.I. of other domestic extremists who had visited the country.

A radical cleric in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, has been linked to numerous terrorism suspects, including Nidal Malik Hasan, the American Army major who faces murder charges in the shooting deaths of 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November.

In the latest issue of Sada al-Malahim, the Internet magazine of the Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, the group’s leader, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, praised the use of small bombs — not just big ones — to attack an enemy, in an eerie foreshadowing of Friday’s episode on the plane to Detroit.

Yemen escalated its campaign against Al Qaeda with major airstrikes on Dec. 17 and last Thursday that killed more than 60 militants.

American officials have been coy about the role of the United States in the strikes, saying that they have provided intelligence and “firepower” for the efforts.

Yemen’s foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, said Sunday that Yemeni military cooperation with the United States and Saudi Arabia had increased in recent months as fresh intelligence confirmed Al Qaeda’s greater assertiveness in the country.

“There was intelligence that they were targeting the British Embassy and a number of government institutions as well as private schools,” Mr. Qirbi said in a telephone interview. “The second reason is that they have become more vocal, trying to show that they can undertake terrorist activities in an open fashion. So the government had to respond to that.”

The recent airstrikes were planned for two or three months, Mr. Qirbi said, but could not take place until there was fresh intelligence about the location of the Qaeda operatives who were the targets.

He called that intelligence — which included information provided by the United States — “the most important element” in the successful strike on the Qaeda members.

Mr. Qirbi added that although the United States provided Yemen with military hardware, the airstrikes were carried out by the Yemeni military alone.

Although the most important intelligence came from the United States and Saudi Arabia, other countries in the region have increased their financial assistance in recent months to help Yemen, said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. “There was a fear inside and outside Yemen that Al Qaeda was taking new ground, establishing training centers, making some parts of Yemen no-go areas,” Mr. Alani said. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in particular provided assistance, he said, because “they feel that sooner or later they will become targets too.”

In the past year, Al Qaeda has killed six intelligence officers in the provinces where it is based, part of an unmistakable campaign by the group to secure its sanctuary there, Mr. Alani said. The intelligence officers were trying to gather information on the group, and to disrupt its growing links with local tribes — a significant part of its strategy, Mr. Alani added.

The airstrikes of the past two weeks have been successful but have come at a price, Yemeni officials said. “They have been hit hard, but they have not yet been disabled,” said one high-ranking Yemeni official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic issues involved. “The problem is that the involvement of the United States creates sympathy for Al Qaeda. The cooperation is necessary — but there is no doubt that it has an effect for the common man. He sympathizes with Al Qaeda.”

As if to reaffirm that message, Al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate released a statement to Internet sites on Sunday that put strong emphasis on the American role in the recent raids, deriding the Yemeni government for claiming responsibility.

Eric Schmitt reported from Washington, and Robert F. Worth from Beirut, Lebanon.

[bigron]

Al-Qaida in Yemen threatened US

Al-Qaida member in Yemen issued bomb threat ahead of botched Christmas operation

JOSEF FEDERMAN
AP News
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/12/27/al-qaida-in-yemen-threatened-us-2/

Dec 27, 2009 12:49 EST

An Al-Qaida operative in Yemen threatened the United States and said "we are carrying a bomb" in a video posted online four days before the botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight.

The video does not contain any clear evidence that the speaker was anticipating Friday's attempt, but it has attracted scrutiny because of reports that the bombing plot may have originated in Yemen.

The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the attack claimed he received training and instructions from al-Qaida operatives there, U.S. law enforcement officials said, and a key American lawmaker has said there are "strong suggestions" of a Yemen connection.

In a Dec. 21 video, the al-Qaida operative delivered a eulogy for militants killed in a Yemeni airstrike on a militant training camp four days earlier. The speaker said he had no agenda against Yemeni soldiers, but warned them against cooperating with Americans.

"We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God," the speaker says.

"O soldiers, you should learn that we do not want to fight you, nor do we have an issue with you. We only have an issue with America and its agents, and beware of standing in the ranks of America," he says. "You should not defend these regimes. The soldiers and even Obama cannot put out the light of Islam."

The video was posted on extremist Web sites affiliated with al-Qaida. The Web sites identified the speaker as Mohammed al-Kalwi, an al-Qaida activist reportedly killed in another airstrike on Thursday.

The video showed the bearded militant, wearing a a headdress and green military-style jacket over a long Arab robe, addressing a group of armed followers as he stood atop a car. The followers repeatedly interrupted the fiery address with calls of "God is great."

IntelCenter, a Virginia-based group that monitors extremist activity, said in a report that it was not certain the speaker knew about the airliner plot ahead of time. It said planning for the botched attack likely took place long ago, but it would be plausible for a member with knowledge of the plot to foreshadow an operation.

The United States has grown increasingly concerned about al-Qaida activity in Yemen, a largely lawless country where militants have been able to organize and train. The U.S. has provided some $70 million in military aid to Yemen this year, and last week's two deadly airstrikes on al-Qaida targets in Yemen were carried out with U.S. and Saudi intelligence help.

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee, said there were "strong suggestions of a Yemen-al-Qaida connection and an intent to blow up the plane over U.S. airspace."

On Saturday, the U.S. Justice Department charged Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab with willfully attempting to destroy or wreck an aircraft and placing a destructive device in the plane.

It said Abdulmutallab set off the device as Northwest Flight 253 descended toward Detroit Metropolitan Airport — sparking a fire instead of an explosion.

IntelCenter said staging attacks outside the Arabian peninsula would be a "significant escalation" in activities by al-Qaida branches based in the area.

It noted that an al-Qaida magazine in the Arabian peninsula published an article in October that encouraged its activists to make their own explosive devices, and that the necessary ingredients were easily and cheaply available.

It quoted Abu Basir, a reference to Naser Abdel-Karim al-Wahishi, the leader of the al-Qaida's branch in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, as discussing targets and methods for hiding devices in belts and electronic devices.

He urged militants to target "airports of the Western Crusader states that took part in the war on Muslims, or in their airplanes, residential areas or underground trains."

The Yemeni government said it believed al-Wahishi was attending an al-Qaida operational meeting in eastern Yemen Thursday when its airplanes hit the group. It is not known whether al-Wahishi was harmed.

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Associated Press Writer Maamoun Youssef contributed to this report.

Source: AP News

[bigron]

also see :

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=152923.0

[phasma]

Thanks for those posts bigron. It appears to be as i thought.
Who before this had any issue or knowledge of yemen as an emerging AQ threat ? (Yeah i know, there is no AQ threat )
Obama kils innocent people in Yemen - and now a bomber convieniently appears from Yemen and makes a half assed attempt to damage a U.S plane?
Oh, but hang on , he came from Nigeria > Amsterdam > US. and Sky news said he MAY have had ties with Yemen, and they might have given him the MILITARY GRADE explosive that went wrong.
Yeah right !
Pull the other one ! It has bells on it !
Time for a bit of mass distraction i think - which famous person will do somehing or be suicided i wonder?

[stella]

Well, the war on terror appears to be really working since the 30 innocent civilians they pre-emptively killed in Yemen apparently stopped the lap bomber from getting his supplies... oh no wait.