Posted on 12/19/2009 2:20:51 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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. Share ABC's Brian Ross details missile strike on al-Qaeda militants in Afghanistan.
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.
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“He was given the prize for what they HOPED he would do.”
...seems like a lot of folks are disappointed with “hope”
...and it exposes for once and for all the farce that the Nobel Peace prize is...it’s an award by lefties for lefties!...to have given one to obama and to that terrorist arafat makes a complete mockery of the award and is a slap in the face for those who have had true lifetime achievements
...it is also absurd that reagan did not win one for liberating 500 million people from behind the iron curtain...but as i said it’s an award by lefties for lefties
I agree, but my grading has him at F- instead of G. He's been doing such a piss poor job; F just wasn't low enough.
They know Ubama will bring world peace and global socialism, and Jews and Palestinians will skip together through the park, hand in hand, tossing daisies.
He is certainly more of a “war monger” than I would have thought. :)
Distraction is the key word.
And Bush launched a missile strike from a drone in Yemen in 2002 which killed al Qaida leaders. Congress authorized the president to use military force against terrorists after 9/11.
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