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Yemen: Another Failure The Obama Administration Touted As a Success
Townhall.com ^ | Jan 09, 2015 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 01/10/2015 6:25:01 AM PST by KeyLargo

Yemen: Another Failure The Obama Administration Touted As a Success Katie Pavlich | Jan 09, 2015

As law enforcement officials hone in on two Islamic terrorists who carried out an attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo earlier this week, we're learning more about where the terrorists came from, what their backgrounds are and where they received their training. There are three suspects total. Two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, are still on the run but officials know where they are and have been in contact with them throughout the morning. The youngest of the terror suspects turned himself in earlier this week.

Said Kouachi, the oldest of the three, trained with Al Qaeda in Yemen throughout 2011 before returning to France.

It was just a few short months ago that President Obama touted anti-terrorism operations in Yemen and Somalia as a success and upheld them as examples of how the United States would fight ISIS. From his September 10, 2014 speech at the White House:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; aqap; arabs; charliehebdo; cherifkouachi; eritrea; france; french; iran; isil; isis; islamicterrorists; islamists; jihadist; lebanon; mediabias; muslims; obama; ontherun; paris; saidkouachi; saudiarabia; shiahouthi; somalia; venezuela; waronterror; wot; yemen

"Despite Obama administration claims, Al Qaeda is not on the run. In fact, they're gaining strength. Yemen is far from the success we should be depending on to fight ISIS and Obama's suggestion it has been a "success" begs-the-question of whether he's actually serious about "degrading and ultimately destroying" ISIS in Iraq and Syria."


1 posted on 01/10/2015 6:25:01 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

As the Moslem Brotherhood, importation of Ebola and
EV-D68, and the destruction of Law, all show,
Obola-the-Undocumented is a success in his
destruction of the USA and Freedom.


2 posted on 01/10/2015 6:29:13 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: KeyLargo
Yes, well, to Team Obama, anything that HURTS America IS a success.

They hate the 3 Cs: (classical, biblical)Christianity, (the original intent of the)Constitution, and (free market)Capitalism.

3 posted on 01/10/2015 6:32:28 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Diogenesis

Yemen will be the country with the most DRONES visiting their air space in 2015... Wow,


4 posted on 01/10/2015 6:32:50 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Diogenesis

“What happened to ‘on the run’? #CharlieHebdo suspect tied to al-Qaeda in Yemen
Posted at 5:18 pm on January 8, 2015 by Twitchy Staff”

LeContredicteur @AceofSpadesHQ
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Al Qaeda is on the run. Their escape route, unfortunately, leads through cartoonists’ offices.
4:02 PM - 8 Jan 2015

” If AQAP was involved, even indirectly, in Wednesday’s attack, it would be the group’s biggest success outside the Middle East in quite a while. And coming at a time when international attention has shifted to al-Qaida’s hostile erstwhile allies ISIS—with that group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, directly challenging Zawahiri’s leadership of the international jihadist movement—it’s a sign that al-Qaida is still far from contained.”

“B-b-but … that’s not what President Obama told us!”

http://twitchy.com/2015/01/08/what-happened-to-on-the-run-charliehebdo-suspect-tied-to-al-qaeda-in-yemen/


5 posted on 01/10/2015 6:36:55 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Al Qaeda rep says group directed Paris magazine attack; US issues travel warning

Published January 10, 2015
FoxNews.com

New info on the female terror suspect on the run

A member of Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen said Friday that the group directed the massacre earlier this week at a Paris magazine, as the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning to citizens, saying they faced an increased risk of reprisals.

The Al Qaeda member on Friday provided a statement in English to The Associated Press saying “the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully.”

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/09/paris-terror-attack-suspects-reportedly-steal-car-take-hostage-in-northeast/


6 posted on 01/10/2015 6:40:16 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Alahawahoo Alahawa Wackybar!


7 posted on 01/10/2015 6:40:58 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: KeyLargo

I just heard on Fox that they had released the 18 year old. Whats with that?


8 posted on 01/10/2015 6:44:44 AM PST by Mercat
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Brother in law to one of the terrorists...they thought that he may have been the driver but he was at school at the time of the attack.


9 posted on 01/10/2015 6:50:23 AM PST by halo66
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WH insists al Qaeda core is ‘decimated’

By Susan Crabtree | September 26, 2014 | 4:50 pm

The White House is standing by its claim that “the core of al Qaeda is decimated” even as President Obama authorized strikes this week against Khorasan, an affiliate terrorist group plotting attacks against the United States.

In an aggressive round of questions from ABC’s Jon Karl on Friday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest repeatedly claimed that many of al Qaeda’s leaders have been killed during President Obama’s time in office.

“It continues to be clear to this day that core al Qaeda has been decimated,” Earnest said.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wh-insists-al-qaeda-core-is-decimated/article/2554038


10 posted on 01/10/2015 6:58:15 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Mercat

I guess that the UK does not have enough Muslim terrorists at the present time and Cameron wants his pal Obama to send him another one.

David Cameron to plead case of Briton held in Guantanamo Bay without charge for nearly 13 years with Barack Obama

Prime Minister’s aides said he would raise plight of Shaker Aamer, who has been held in Guantanamo
Mr Cameron is expected to travel to White House this month, his last scheduled encounter with US President before May’s General Election
Mr Aamer, a Saudi citizen, has resident status in UK, and his British wife and four children live in south London

By James Chapman for the Daily Mail

Published: 20:31 EST, 9 January 2015 | Updated: 09:16 EST, 10 January 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2904190/David-Cameron-plead-case-Briton-held-Guantanamo-Bay-without-charge-nearly-13-years-Barack-Obama.html


11 posted on 01/10/2015 7:11:34 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Candor7

Newsmax

Walid Phares on Terrorism: Obama Has Policy of ‘Appeasement’
Friday, January 9, 2015 01:20 PM

By: Wanda Carruthers

President Barack Obama needs to change his policy that avoids engaging in a confrontation with Islamic jihadists if the U.S. is going to address the problem of terrorism, Mideast expert Dr. Walid Phares told Newsmax TV’s “America’s Forum” on Friday.

“The problem is that this administration and the president are receiving a perspective and analysis and advice from a whole pyramid of advisers who are advising that we should not engage in a confrontation with the jihadists.

“The president needs to start changing his policy, and Congress needs to convince him,” Phares said Friday. “They need each other if they want to fight this threat.”

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/terrorism-jihad-policy-advisers/2015/01/09/id/617598/


12 posted on 01/10/2015 7:32:25 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Diogenesis

UN Secretary-General: French Terror Not ‘Religious War’–Just ‘Criminality’

by Joel B. Pollak9 Jan 20151097

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Friday in New York that the terror attacks in Paris, in which radical Muslims targeted a Jewish supermarket and a newspaper that had mocked Muhammad, were “criminality” that had nothing to do with religion.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/09/un-secretary-general-french-terror-not-religious-war-just-criminality/


13 posted on 01/10/2015 7:34:15 AM PST by KeyLargo
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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Calls Charlie Hebdo Terrorists ‘Activists’

By Tom Blumer | January 10, 2015 | 9:23 AM EST

The list of unhinged statements and rants coming from left-leaning journalists in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris is getting miles long.

Among them all, one especially sticks out. In one of the earliest retreats to twisted, gutless characterizations of the Charlie Hebdo terrorists, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who is also ABC’s global affairs anchor, called them “activists.” Greg Gutfeld of Fox News commented on Amanpour’s annihilation of the English langauge and went after the “fear of (right-wing) backlash” mindset on Friday.

Video:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2015/01/10/cnns-christiane-amanpour-calls-charlie-hebdo-murderers-activists


14 posted on 01/10/2015 7:43:19 AM PST by KeyLargo
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15 posted on 01/10/2015 8:37:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: KeyLargo

It’s only a failure of the MSN reports it.


16 posted on 01/10/2015 9:28:34 AM PST by Organic Panic
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