US Airstrike in Yemen kills 34 Al Qaeda terrorists

by Infidelesto on December 18, 2009 · Comments

Great job, boys…

Interesting that the government of Yemen requested the airstrikes.  I’m glad we were happy to oblige.

image2012442gABC News – 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. [...]
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. [...]

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….

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  • SOUTHERN MOVEMENT
    Yemen which was formally two states united in 1990 then due to northern corruption the south wanted out of the union in 1994 resulting in a civil war that was won by the northern forces. Ever since the northern government has treated southerners as if they were second class citizens forcing all those that had government posts into retirement and seized lands belonging to the people of the south. 3 years ago a non-violence movement for southern independence started gaining momentum. Many have been killed by government forces during peaceful protests which only seemed to strengthen the movement. So the dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh decieded to bomb villages in the south and tell the Americans that it was "Al Qaeda" his troops are after. While the real victims are the women and children of South Arabia. If anything, Saleh is the one that trained and used Al Qaeda elements in the past. But I guess nowadays you can bomb the hell out of a people and say "terrorism" and people of the free world would just clap their hands instead of question the real motives behind the actions.
  • Marco Matamoros
    Bravo!
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