Posted on 01/01/2010 9:49:18 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
One of America's top military leaders says Yemen-based terrorists helped plan the Christmas Day, December 25, plot to blow up a U.S. bound airplane.
General David Petraeus told reporters in Baghdad Friday that the U.S. and Yemen have been sharing information about al-Qaida in the country, including activity that "resulted in the failed attack on the airliner."
The head of the U.S. Central Command said Yemen has carried out "very significant" operations against al-Qaida, some of which prevented a series of suicide bombings.
General Petraeus said the United States is helping Yemen, but that its neighbors have also provided significant assistance.
Earlier this week, a group known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attempted bombing of a flight from Amsterdam to the U.S. city of Detroit, saying it was in retaliation for U.S. support of operations against al-Qaida militants in Yemen.
The suspect in the case, 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has told U.S. investigators he got training and explosives in Yemen.
Yemen has been intensifying its campaign against rebels and suspected al-Qaida terrorists, conducting a series of airstrikes and other raids that it says resulted in militant deaths and arrests.
On Wednesday, Yemeni forces clashed with al-Qaida militants in Yemen's western Hudaydah province, wounding several suspected militants and capturing at least one.
A spokesman for Yemen's ruling party, Tarek al-Shami, said the government will continue to coordinate with the U.S. to target al-Qaida throughout Yemen.
Yemen is the ancestral home of al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden.
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Are you going to post it?
I will when I find it tomorrow .. it’s not up.
;) Listen to the very end again.
I just thought about Brit Hume .. he
should’ve been on the panel for this
wrapup of the year ... darn.
Ya know maybe FOX has something on RE and they’re just worrying him a bit....Wonder what Beck has picked up with his few good people who have given him information on wrong doing?
As far as PET goes...Can’t see him going along with the CIC in covering ANY thing up.
Thank goodness this isn't connected to terrorism in general. /s
Not in my world that's not.
After 9/11 the FAA instituted a mandate that required all flights in the air when an incident like this occurs to be informed to alert the pilots of the possibility of it happening on many flights simultaneously.
Why did this not happen on Christmas day? Everyone in the air that day found out about it after they landed. Where is the media investigation and the calling for heads to roll?
I HATE what they’ve just been saying
about the real Obomination healthcare
will be. That’s it’s really going to
happen. We’ll be like England and
Canada, and the rotten rats have built
in ‘forever.’ The insurance companies
will be like public utilities, managed
by big brother. God help us.
OH, hoosiermama! GOOD thinking!!!! You may have hit the precise reason Brett made his prediction.
Regarding PET: Completely agree. He’d resign. He’d never go along with any cover-up.
Oh, I think there’s a bushelful of stuff
on Rahmbo .. and Valerie. It’s the
Chicago thug machine .. there’s bodies
everywhere. It’s just a matter of who
gets ticked off enough at the O to let
loose.
I got an idea! How about we send some Gitmo “detainees” to Yemen?
Not for him to say? He raised his right hand and took an oath to defend the Constitution. He’s a politician and a tool and a traitor for knowingly breaking his oath. It’s legitamate to hang him.
Star you are so right about the CHicago Thugs. I’ve slowed down posting to the CHicago Crime thread....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2151323/posts?page=1
Guess I should make a new years resolution to start posting materials and organize what I have.....There are so many dots there. Just wish there would be more arrests....Maybe they’re waiting till after to twenty-ten election so they will have enough votes to impeach.
Right, it’s not for the General to say.
He works for the CIC who was elected by the stupid Americans who voted for him.
YOU lead the charge to hang him. Go ahead, since you sound so brave. Stand up, come out from behind your keyboard.
cc,You are wrong....I’ve been a birther long before O even ran for president....Unless there is proof in a court of law every official of the government and every citizen must at least outwardly follow along....all the time trying to find the proof that O and him minions have removed, hidden or murdered.....Yes, I said murdered to keep the truth surpressed.
There are at least three missionaries in Kenya that lost their lives because they knew the truth, but proving he ordered their deaths is next to impossible, because he knows who to pay off and how to keep people quiet.
Believe me, if the physical proof was out there he wouldn’t be in office today.
What are the chances that awful Rahm will win the US senate seat in Illinois?
I fear “too good,” given the Daley machine, etc.
Daschle in the WH is another nightmare. He’s gawd awful too.
You do know that Pres. Nixon eliminated the death penalty for treason don’t you?
hmm, that sound like a veiled attempt to call me a chikenhawk. I took the same oath as him. I carried a rifle and stood post. I’m involved in the peaceful lawsuits and am willing to move past that. And when it comes to that, you shouldn’t feel safe either. Oh, and complete BS on the Nixon shrill. Treason is still a hangable offense.
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