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Petraeus: Airline Bomb Plot Had Roots in Yemen
Voice Of America ^ | 1/1/2010 | Voice Of America

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinebomb; alqaeda; alqaida; aqap; arabianpeninsula; centralcommand; davidpetraeus; flight253; homelandsecurity; wot; yemen
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To: STARWISE

Are you going to post it?


21 posted on 01/01/2010 11:30:51 PM PST by onyx
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To: onyx

I will when I find it tomorrow .. it’s not up.
;) Listen to the very end again.


22 posted on 01/01/2010 11:31:59 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: onyx

I just thought about Brit Hume .. he
should’ve been on the panel for this
wrapup of the year ... darn.


23 posted on 01/01/2010 11:34:05 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE; onyx

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.


24 posted on 01/01/2010 11:36:47 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: onyx
Ah, well, it was just an isolated incident. Isolated to al Qaeda and the country of Yemen.

Thank goodness this isn't connected to terrorism in general. /s

25 posted on 01/01/2010 11:37:14 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: ccruse456
seriously...

Not in my world that's not.

26 posted on 01/01/2010 11:39:35 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: sonofstrangelove

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?


27 posted on 01/01/2010 11:40:41 PM PST by anonsquared
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To: onyx

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.


28 posted on 01/01/2010 11:40:47 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: hoosiermama; STARWISE

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.


29 posted on 01/01/2010 11:44:10 PM PST by onyx
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To: onyx; hoosiermama

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.


30 posted on 01/01/2010 11:48:18 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: sonofstrangelove

I got an idea! How about we send some Gitmo “detainees” to Yemen?


31 posted on 01/01/2010 11:57:13 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: onyx

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.


32 posted on 01/01/2010 11:58:28 PM PST by ccruse456
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To: onyx; STARWISE; holdonnow

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.


33 posted on 01/01/2010 11:59:39 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: STARWISE
I hated it too, but I am going to keep the faith until after the elections this year and in 2012. If we get our GOP majorities and our Sarah, then all can be undone and dismantled. If not, then, I will be wholly disillusioned.
34 posted on 01/02/2010 12:03:33 AM PST by onyx
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To: ccruse456

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.


35 posted on 01/02/2010 12:07:42 AM PST by onyx
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To: ccruse456; onyx

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.


36 posted on 01/02/2010 12:09:29 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama; STARWISE

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.


37 posted on 01/02/2010 12:10:37 AM PST by onyx
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To: ccruse456

You do know that Pres. Nixon eliminated the death penalty for treason don’t you?


38 posted on 01/02/2010 12:12:24 AM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: Lancey Howard
Bad Idea. So the Yemen government releases them back into Ql-Qaeda. They are fine where they are at. Remember, Yemen is Osama Bin Laden ancestral home.
39 posted on 01/02/2010 12:18:51 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one.""-Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: onyx

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.


40 posted on 01/02/2010 12:21:52 AM PST by ccruse456
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