I mean, where's Green Helmet Guy?
Cheers!
Posted on 12/24/2009 6:06:24 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
BTW, 200 sheep and large numbers of cows and camels also escaped and have run off.
Al Qaeda Widows and Orphans Local #206.
But that's ok, they just contribute to global warming anyway.
Cheers!
The place needs a few MOABs for good measure.
I mean, where's Green Helmet Guy?
Cheers!
“They blowed up real good!’’
“BTW 200 sheep and large numbers of cows and camels have also escaped and have run off’’ Runaway brides?
I like the idea of dropping time released bombs so after the explosion they go off killing the rabid scum that comes to find the bodies caused by the original explosion.
That’s a great Christmas present....:)
Al Jazzy says that children may have been killed. We may yet see an apology.
My guess is our hapless cowardly thug in chief doesn't want this creep testifying at Hasan's trial because it would prove that his WAS an act of terrorism, about which the Army would then have to DO something. We wouldn't want that... now would we?
Further, the Army would then be liable to the survivors of the victims for harboring a known terrorist. Can you say treble damages? We wouldn't want that either, now would we?
In the process, his defenders might just have to do discovery on whether there were any orders from the top systematically protecting this creep. We wouldn't want that either.
Ordering a strike in Yemen then starts looking pretty good.
Thanks for posting/linking. Great news! Great thread!
"By Gary Thomas Washington 22 October 2009 When it comes to battling terrorism, most public attention has focused on Pakistan and Afghanistan. But officials are concerned that al-Qaida has found alternative accommodation in the troubled nation of Yemen. Counter-terrorism officers liken battling a group like al-Qaida to the children's game Whack-a-Mole. The object of the game is to knock out the animal when it pops up out of a hole. But each time you whack it, it disappears back into the hole only to pop up again out of a different hole. So, say officials, if you whack al-Qaida in a place like Pakistan or turn up the heat in Saudi Arabia, it pops up elsewhere. And it seems to be popping up in the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen, says Michael Leiter, director of the National Counter-terrorism Center. "In Yemen we have witnessed the reemergence of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and the possibility that that will become a base of operations for al-Qaida," he said. Yemen is a country of 528,000 square kilometers along Saudi Arabia's southern border. Richard Barrett, the U.N. coordinator for sanctions on al-Qaida and the Taliban, says few places fit that bill as a terrorist safe haven more perfectly than Yemen. "You have 22 million people there and you have deep poverty, a worsening economy and a 35 percent unemployment rate, a 50 percent literacy rate, population growing at more than three percent annually," he explained. "Oil production dropped by 40 percent over the last year and the income of the country depends on oil for about 70 percent of government revenues. And of course you have almost a majority of people - I should think a good majority of people - who are under 25. So it is a bit of a powder keg, Yemen," he added. It is a maxim of counter-terrorism that terrorists thrive in a climate of instability, and Yemen has been beset by violence and economic upheaval. It is the poorest country in the Arab world. The government is simultaneously battling a rebellion by a Shi'ite Muslim group known in Yemen as Houthis and a movement by secessionists in the south. Such an atmosphere, say officials, allows al-Qaida space to plan, plot, and train. A Yemeni affairs specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Christopher Boucek says the government in the capital Sanaa is too preoccupied with other matters to make al-Qaida a high priority. "I think right now the Yemeni government does not view Islamist terrorism as a first order threat. I think they view what is going on in the north with the civil war or the southern secessionist movement as intrinsic threats against the survival of the state," he said. "Al-Qaida or Islamist terrorists do not threaten the survival of the state the same way as half the country seceding does. "So, while the Yemeni government has been eager to fight terrorism, they have done it when it matches with their needs, and when they felt they were in a partnership with the United States on this," he continued. Officials believe that as the Saudi government increased the pressure on terrorists, many of the Saudi al-Qaida have moved into Yemen, and the Saudi and Yemeni branches merged earlier this year into al-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula. On August 27, a Yemeni suicide bomber lightly wounded Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Nayef, who is charge of Saudi Arabia's counter-terrorism program. The bomber concealed the explosives inside his body."
...Now, let's get behind our TROOPS!!
“Raw video of scene on the ground inside al-Qaeda operational and training center in Yemen, blasted to smithereens by US and Yemeni forces in the last number of hours. (LINK)”
Hate to nit pick..but it is more than a nit.
That video is from an earlier incident involving a civil war in the north of the country.
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