The Arabs must be very irritated of the Iranians' proxies waging war on them. They have struck back with air strikes wounding or killing Anwar al-Aulaqi, the terrorist preacher who exchanged emails with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (psychiatrist who killed 13 patriot soldiers at Ft. Hood, TX).
Poor hasan paralyzed and now his preacher kilt. lol
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Exactly what does "backed by the United States" mean Mr. President?
Where "code pink" when you need them. They must be getting fitted for their Obama knee pads
It does concern me we are getting involved in a proxy war with Iran. What about getting involved with Iran's proxy war in Gaza and Lebanon ?
Oh' yea. Lebanon and Gaza doesn't have any "earl"
There is no Yemeni army presence or special forces anywhere near the air strike.
There have been about 760 sorties all over Yemen against Houthis and Al Qaeda training camps, all daylight raids. There have been about 20 sorties, at night, precision ordnance, by undeclared parties.... Calling Captain Obvious....
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I'm wondering why he was killed. Did he know more? How many more operatives he may have known is hiding out stateside, in our military, in our schools, government (Obama), etc.
I doubt the US military initiates new action on foreign soil without diplomatic contacts at the highest levels. So, one wonders why this strike now?
My guess is they don'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.