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Al-Qaeda Fighters Take Control of Yemen Town [corpses strewn across dusty streets]
Telegraph Uk ^ | 29 May 2011 6:28PM BST | Adrian Blomfield, Middle East correspondent

Posted on 05/29/2011 7:36:37 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

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Washington began eyeing the impoverished Yemen as a possible new haven for al Qaeda in recruiting as early as 2001. It was the homeland of UBL, whose followers bombed the destroyer USS Cole a year before the 9/11 attacks.

A Russian Expert in Islamic affairs of the Arab Gulf, Avigeni Nuvikuf, indicated the military establishment made by Former Soviet Union for the Yemeni Socialist Party are being used for trainees from Al-Qaeda's members where military experts in the Yemeni Socialist Party believe that the United States is the real enemy.

The Saudi Arabia Al-Qaeda branch has moved to Yemen to avoid arrest by Saudi security authorities.

Recently, it was reported that al Qaeda headquarters in Afghanistan had moved entirely into Yemen for safer quarters.

One might ask why the focus on the WOT is being reflected elsewhere in the world?
Obama's Libyan WOT campaign was high on the agenda when he met recently for 90 minutes with Russia's president, Dmitri Medvedev.

1 posted on 05/29/2011 7:36:41 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

Arab Spring.


2 posted on 05/29/2011 7:37:39 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: fight_truth_decay

And if given the opportunity, they would leave bodies in the streets of every city and town in America.


3 posted on 05/29/2011 7:39:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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and I believe a lot of the feds would be pleased with that.


4 posted on 05/29/2011 7:44:11 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: fight_truth_decay

We bring in these Animals by the 1000’s,Thanks GW Bush and Barry the Bastard Obama.


5 posted on 05/29/2011 7:44:32 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Signalman

Yep, You beat me to it.

Arab spring.
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Leading to

Summer of discontent
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Leading to

Fall of civilization.
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Then

Nuclear Winter.


6 posted on 05/29/2011 7:48:33 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: fight_truth_decay

and launching violent reprisals that left corpses strewn across dusty streets....
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isn’t that why the USA and NATO are bombing government buildings and killing children in Libya, to prevent... ?

...not to mention, that attacks on Coptic Christians have gotten worse since Mubarak was forced out... yet G8 wants to reward the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt with billions...


7 posted on 05/29/2011 7:52:52 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Could Islam be orchestrated by the same demon that caused the Aztecs to commit human sacrifices?


8 posted on 05/29/2011 7:53:19 PM PDT by garjog
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To: Elendur

I read that more than 95 percent of Egyptian women have had a clitorectamy.

What a miserable place. What a sadistic religion.


9 posted on 05/29/2011 8:01:47 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: fight_truth_decay

I’ve read that Yemen is one of the most heavily armed Countries in the world. If this is so than how did 200 fighters reek so much mayhem on a town of 18,000?


10 posted on 05/29/2011 8:05:29 PM PDT by BBell
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We have an Islamic Kenyan president. Fighting in North Africa for Islamic African interests should be expected.
11 posted on 05/29/2011 8:08:13 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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Maybe Obama is supplying them with weapons and logistics?

It could be embarrassing at the next Ramadan dinner if he fails to help the Brotherhood.

12 posted on 05/29/2011 8:12:15 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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yep. and those are official United Nations statistics !

but N.O.W. doesn’t care how badly Islam treats women, because we all know evangelical christians are much worse...

i simply don’t understand the unholy alliance between liberal feminists and Islam... don’t they know what will happen under Sharia ?!?


13 posted on 05/29/2011 11:08:54 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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18,000 people in the town and noone just shoots the 200 Al Qaeda guys? The folks in Korea town in LA did a far better job protecting themselves from much larger, and armed, rioting gangs during the Rodney King riots.


14 posted on 05/29/2011 11:17:36 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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The Telegraph is relying on government sources for this story, which is a pack of lies.

What really happened in Zanjibar is that President Saleh sent in the 26 Brigade of his Republican Guards to capture a political opponent named Sheik Abdul Majid al-Zindani. The Brigade was quickly surrounded and had to fight their way out of town. Saleh sent in the 101 Brigade to rescue them, into the neighborhoods of Al-Aslah, Al-Sarh, Al-Tumisi and Sawahil in Zanjibar.

That is the cause of all the shelling and fighting. AQ rather than attacking civilians, would be welcomed in the entire province. FR posters have quickly recognized the bogus claims of this article. Al-Zindani is UBL's former mentor and a major AQ sympathizer.

We may speculate about AQ coming into influence in other areas of the "Arab Spring", but let there be no doubt that AQ will take over Yemen if Saleh is not thrown out and a stabel government formed, soon, very soon.

15 posted on 05/30/2011 7:46:10 AM PDT by gandalftb (Fighting jihadists is like fighting an earthquake, harden yourselves.)
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stabel = stable


16 posted on 05/30/2011 7:47:46 AM PDT by gandalftb (Fighting jihadists is like fighting an earthquake, harden yourselves.)
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? sorry, i am confused. you seem to have good knowledge here.

you say the province would welcome Al-Quada.
and the government is fighting against them.

...and previously, Obama had praised Saleh, for helping us in the war against AQ...

yet you say AQ will take over Yemen if Saleh remains.
but AQ WON’T take over if he is removed ?!?!?


17 posted on 05/30/2011 8:55:29 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: LegendHasIt

sadly, i think you nailed it. perfect summary.
God help us...


18 posted on 05/30/2011 9:05:28 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: fight_truth_decay

They are members of this forum that would refer to them as freedom fighters or advocates for democracy.


19 posted on 05/30/2011 9:08:45 AM PDT by sport
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To: Elendur; doug from upland; usmcobra; Cindy; G8 Diplomat; AdmSmith; Dog; nuconvert; ...
In Yemen, AQ is not some foreign presence like it is everywhere else in the world, including Saudi Arabia, adopted home of the bin Ladens.

The old school, hardcore, to-the-death, AQ are Yemenis.

Yemenis are the outcasts of the Arab world. They are, by far, the poorest and most isolated Arabs. They resent, fear, loath, everyone, particularly other Arabs like the Saudis that have enslaved and stolen and used them for millenia.

Saleh/the government is a dictator/ship and we are friends with him only because AQ threatens us both, lethally. No is nothing truer in the arabic world than the saying "My enemies enemy is my friend".

The reason Yemenis welcome AQ is because AQ hates the same people: everyone except Yemenis. AQ is blood kin there, brothers, cousins, not just related by some marriage of convenience, real relatives, not guests of the Pakhtuns, etc.

When Saleh is deposed/killed there will be an enormous political vacuum there. Saleh is fighting AQ to save his own hide, not to help America. AQ is now a major force in the rural areas and is rapidly organizing the tribes.

There are minority political groups that are available for leadership that are democratic to some degree. We could ally with them, arm and train them and have good results if we move quickly.

If Saleh remains, hatred of him drives the tribes towards AQ in the absence of a more benevolent force. That is the contradiction of which Yemen has a great many.

20 posted on 05/30/2011 9:19:44 AM PDT by gandalftb (Fighting jihadists is like fighting an earthquake, harden yourselves.)
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