US fighters patrol Yemen.

Fox News ^ | 11/18/02 | AP

[Sparta]

SAN'A, Yemen — U.S. fighter jets have patrolled Yemen's northern border with Saudi Arabia as Yemeni forces hunt for Al Qaeda operatives, a security official said Saturday.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. jets were patrolling the border provinces of Marib and Jawf, strongholds of Muslim militants where the Al Qaeda terror group is believed to be active.

The official said operations were designed to "tighten the grip on Al Qaeda suspects who are believed to be relocating in these tribal strongholds in the wake of the latest U.S. attack."

Tribal leaders in the region said Americans have also been seen on the ground aiding Yemenis special forces troops.

U.S. officials at the Pentagon and National Security Council did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.

Earlier this month, a Hellfire missile from a CIA unmanned Predator drone killed six men, including Al Qaeda's alleged top operative in Yemen.

The missile strike also killed Kamal Derwish, the alleged leader of a terrorist cell based in Buffalo, N.Y. with links to Al Qaeda.

An Interior Ministry official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press the other four men in the vehicle were members of the outlawed Adan-Abyan Islamic Army, a radical group of men who fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The group was blamed for the 1998 kidnapping and killing of four Western tourists and a series of bombings in 2001 targeting a church, the Aden offices of the official news agency, and other sites.

On Friday, tribesmen and officials reported that military patrols had been stopping passenger vehicles for identity checks and that new checkpoints had been established in Marib and Jawf.

One tribal leader said that Americans had been seen working along with Yemeni government special forces, especially in Marib province.

Yemeni government officials refused to confirm the reports on the record. However, another Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the military operations were part of new security arrangements, which the government approved at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

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[Ground0]

It's been my longstanding (the past 8 or so months) opine that we should smoke Yemen first. It seems to me that Yemen is and has been a potent safe haven for anti-American malcontents...moreso than Iraq IMO.

[Grampa Dave]

According to Tommy Da$$hole, CNN, the DC Compost and the NY Slimes, Ole Sammy Been Larden is alive and roaming the hills of Yemen.

So I guess it is only logical that we kill every al Qaeda thug in Yemen while looking for Ole Sammy Been Larden.

After that, hopefully we will hear that he is in Iraq, then Iran and then Syria. Then, we hear that he has returned to Saudi Land for his final on stage performance.

[EaglesUpForever]

I am thrilled that we finally take some of the fight back to the true source rather than just lobbing at huts as Bill Clinton did and would have done.

Bush is not the brightest of the bunch, but he's got a damn fine military to support him and at least he doesn't hold it back.

Goes around, comes around, and Osama and his ilk are going to begin to taste some of what they were dishing out: oblivious idiots imagining that somehow Americans were the cause of their problems, or that it was "religion" to murder innocent people.

Take it to Yemen, take it wherever they go.

I think 9/11 won't be avenged until throughout the entire middle east they have learned not just that we are people just like them, but that you'd better not treat us otherwise. And apparently all they understand is violence.

[Grampa Dave]

I agree with what you say with the exception of your comment on President Bush.

However, he loves for people to underestimate him and call him a dummy or not the brightest. By the time that he and Rummey are through a lot of so called smart people in the military who got promoted and advanced due to the Clintoon, will be out of the military complaining about the dumb Bush. Inspite of their great brains, most will not be able to find a good paying job.

[Teacher317]

I agree. Actually, I think Yemen and/or Syria should've made the Axis of Evil list, and not Iran. Iran has a very good chance of righting itself within the next decade, even without our help.

[TimPatriot]

Bush is not the brightest of the bunch, but he's got a damn fine military to support him and at least he doesn't hold it back.

And what do you base that comment on? He may not be the slickest public speaker, but I believe he is far more intelligent than you give him credit for. Do you think morons graduate from Harvard Business School and successfully learn to fly fighter jets?

[Mixer]

Info from rense.com is never important. I am not sure I follow what that article is saying so I hope someone can clear it up. That website, though, supports the idea that the American government was involved in 9/11, so take what they say with less then a grain of salt.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

You are not the brightest of the bunch either...not by a long shot.

[csvset]

Rarely deployed Mount Whitney being sent on anti-terror mission

USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20)

[Rebelbase]

I bet the President could beat you at poker anytime.

[EaglesUpForever]

Well, I didn't mean to offend anyone, that's just my honest impression from all of Bush's off the cuff speaking: he makes up words, for example. He does not present himself as "some really bright person" from what I've seen (and in that family going to Harvard or wherever he wanted to was inevitable almost regardless of any academic abilities).

My impression of Bush's good qualties are: (1) he has good intentions, (2) he has good instinct and good judgment (not what I think of as "bright" but more important), and (3) he has a good team.

Clinton, by contrast, was "bright" in the sense of the ability to toss together sound bytes without making up words. Of course, as his soul was pure evil that was a curse upon this country rather than a blessing.

But how did Bush almost lose to Gore? Whether Bush is bright or not, I don't think he comes off that way to the American people.

I'm really saying that "brightness" is superficial, and go ahead and whine about it but also from what I've seen of Bush he doesn't appear that bright.... could be all apearance, though, I readily admit.

[For the Unborn]

But, but, I thought that we really weren't doing much in the war on terror.

[Sparta]

See what happens when you watch SeeBS news and the Clymer News Network,read the NYSlimes, and listen to NPR and Tom Dasshole.

[For the Unborn]

IMO, the President has become very adept at conveying his exact meaning while leaving out those infuriating vagueries that defined Clinton. Some of the smartest people I've known are not natural born public speakers but are much more genuine in not grabbing for the spotlight and the microphone at every turn.

[Dratlatl]

The political landscape is littered with the bodies of people whose last thoughts were that they were so much smarter than Bush.

[mfreddy]

Too bad you're not our leader.

You really impress me with your keen insights.