Posted on 10/30/2010 6:31:24 PM PDT by Saije
The mastermind of the Al Qaeda (AQAP) plot to plant explosive packages aboard US-bound air freighters is identified by DEBKAfile's exclusive counter-terror sources as Ibrahim Hassan Al Asiri, a Saudi Arabian. He is hiding out at the main Al Qaeda fighting base in the Yemeni province of Al Gouf, 140 kilometers south of Sanaa.
Our sources also reveal that Saturday night, Oct. 30, Yemeni president Abdullah Ali Saleh was still refusing to allow Washington to land US special forces in Al Gouf to wipe out the al Qaeda bastion which has so far resisted all the Yemeni army's efforts to root it out. Based there, according to US and Saudi intelligence, is the al Qaeda (AQAP) infrastructure of terror planners and bomb makers who planted the two explosive packages taken off cargo flights bound for Chicago, US, on Friday.
With Yemeni troops falling back against AQAP, US and Saudi forces Saturday stepped up their UAV strikes on the Al Gouf hideouts to keep al Qaeda fighters from escaping to other parts of Yemen. The US drones came from Djibouti and the Saudi pilotless aircraft from Assir just north of Yemen.
Our military sources reveal that US Combined Task Force - CTF 151 has been standing by Yemen's Red Sea coast aboard the Marine amphibious assault ship USS Boxer awaiting the order to land in Al Gouf, while the Marines Expeditionary Unit 26 waits on the USS Iwo Jima, accompanied by additional US warships.
Saudi King Abdullah and senior US and British government officials have been leaning hard on the Yemeni president to allow these forces to land and storm the bastion of al Qaeda's air freight package plotters. Ali Saleh Saturday night still stood by his refusal.
(Excerpt) Read more at debka.com ...
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October 2010
What a surprise ...
Well if the Yemenis can’t wipe ‘em out, who can?/s;)
Not one penny to that flea bag terrorist ridden hell hole.
“Not one penny to that flea bag terrorist ridden hell hole.”
We are already pouring millions into this country.
http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/in-yemen-us-faces-number-of-obstacles/1131392
JUST DO IT, FOR CHRISSAKES!
Tell Mr. Yemeni President to GTF out of the way.
What is he gonna to do—hate us?
“Not one penny to that flea bag terrorist ridden hell hole.”
We are already pouring millions into this country.
http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/in-yemen-us-faces-number-of-obstacles/1131392";
Holy Crap, that is like 300 mill for those animals to send bombs and blow up planes.
exterminate the whole place, no one will miss it
Ask them ONCE and if they say no just do what has to be done. We’ve tried the whole nation building and “try to make us like them shtick” and guess what: They now hate us more and respect us less.
We need to see the application of hard power, not the world surrender tour that Obama has planned for next week.
http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/in-yemen-us-faces-number-of-obstacles/1131392
“The United States has for nearly a year waged a war against al-Qaida militants in Yemen. The insurgents find refuge with tribes in remote mountain ranges where the government has little control or support from a population of some 23 million known for its religious fundamentalism and disdain for America because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
About 50 U.S. military experts are in Yemen training its counterterrorism forces, and Washington is giving $150 million in military assistance to Yemen this year. A similar amount is given for humanitarian causes.”
In case my link wasn’t working. I guess I could just post the article separately.
Yeah it’s a boat load of money for a place that’s incredibly poor. And incredibly radical in most places.
http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/in-yemen-us-faces-number-of-obstacles/1131392
“The United States has for nearly a year waged a war against al-Qaida militants in Yemen. The insurgents find refuge with tribes in remote mountain ranges where the government has little control or support from a population of some 23 million known for its religious fundamentalism and disdain for America because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
About 50 U.S. military experts are in Yemen training its counterterrorism forces, and Washington is giving $150 million in military assistance to Yemen this year. A similar amount is given for humanitarian causes.”
In case my link wasn’t working. I guess I could just post the article separately.
Yeah it’s a boat load of money for a place that’s incredibly poor. And incredibly radical in most places.”
300 Million for what? to feed hate? as I understand they let the Cole bomber master mind off or loose.
Can’t Obama just go over there and bow to end all of this?
Send a Fat Boy over there.
Send a Fat Boy over there.
Commando raid? Wouldn’t that be resorting to violence?
“Holy Crap, that is like 300 mill for those animals to send bombs and blow up planes.”
I heard the figure that there were only 400 Al-Qaeda in the whole country.
The government there doesn’t want them there but is weak.
“I heard the figure that there were only 400 Al-Qaeda in the whole country.
The government there doesn’t want them there but is weak.”
If they know who the terrorists are then no problem,they disappear at night, a million a pop.
The only problem with making this craphole a smoking ruin is that we would only be adding smoke
W wouldn’t have wasted time asking permission.....Sometimes it’s good to have a Cowboy President! Everyday a Holiday..Everynight a Yemenite
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