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German ambassador escapes as bodyguard shot dead in Yemen
Deutche Welle ^ | October 6, 2013 | rc/kms (AFP, Reuters)

Posted on 10/06/2013 10:01:20 AM PDT by Pan_Yan

Gunmen have shot dead a German employed as a bodyguard at his country's embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. The man was killed by attackers in an apparent unsuccessful kidnap attempt on the German ambassador.

Germany’s ambassador to Yemen appeared to have escaped a kidnapping attempt in the capital, Sanaa, on Sunday in which a bodyguard was killed.

The pan-Arab news channel al-Arabiya reported that the guard had been killed as the attackers tried to kidnap the German ambassador, Carola Müller-Holtkemper.

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.de ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ambassador; germany; globaljihad; kidnapping; terrorattempt; yemen
Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen ... lots of failed states that we just need to keep our people out of. A couple of others (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon) that are on the verge of joining that list.
1 posted on 10/06/2013 10:01:20 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Why does any gov. have people in these hellholes, are they just stupid? Nevermind..answered myself


2 posted on 10/06/2013 10:03:47 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: seeker41

Yes you did. Unfortunately such obvious answers are completely unfathomable in certain circles.


3 posted on 10/06/2013 10:07:09 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Yikes! A foolish country for sure that still has its people in Yemen.


4 posted on 10/06/2013 10:10:37 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11) Hey, Harry Reid.. 1-800-318-2596!)
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To: seeker41

Why are governments so stupid as to send ambassadors to Islamic hellholes? Wait...take a look at the photo of the ambassador...stupidity compounded...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Carola+M%C3%BCller-Holtkemper&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=4plRUrfVI4_a9ASN-4CgAQ&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1097&bih=534&dpr=1


5 posted on 10/06/2013 10:13:10 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: ColdOne
Yikes! A foolish country for sure that still has its people in Yemen.

Do we still have troops in Yemen? Who knows ...

U.S. escalates clandestine war in Yemen
May 16, 2012

Operating from a Yemeni base, at least 20 U.S. special operations troops have used satellite imagery, drone video, eavesdropping systems and other technical means to help pinpoint targets for an offensive that intensified this week, said U.S. and Yemeni officials who asked not to be identified talking about the sensitive operation.

6 posted on 10/06/2013 10:15:58 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Gen.Blather

Kind of like us sending a female ambassador to Egypt? Or a gay ambassador to a devoutly Catholic country? Democrats love rubbing their disdain in other countries faces. Then they wonder why much of the world hates us.


7 posted on 10/06/2013 10:18:32 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

We didn’t allow much interaction with Communists behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. I don’t see interactions with Islamics much differently.


8 posted on 10/06/2013 10:20:11 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“Democrats love rubbing their disdain in other countries faces. Then they wonder why much of the world hates us.”

Those were my thoughts exactly.


9 posted on 10/06/2013 10:22:34 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Pan_Yan

Thanks for info. I remember now.


10 posted on 10/06/2013 10:22:58 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11) Hey, Harry Reid.. 1-800-318-2596!)
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To: seeker41

I think the basic definition is in order

Islamic society = Hellhole.

Only exceptions

Indonesia. Lots of isolated islands where people don’t really know mad mo and his bad ways.

Saudi. Still a hell hole. Just a clean white rich controlled one

Dubai. Ditto.

Iran. Not really Islamic. Just run by islamonazis

Can’t think of any others

And Egypt is rapidly on the way of becoming one Very sad

Beirut , Lebanon was once called ‘ Paris by the sea ‘

In summary. Islamic societies all degenerate into roving bands of psychotic pedophilic rapist thugs with M16s on pickups

Or worse


11 posted on 10/06/2013 10:48:03 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the guvmint you deserve)
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Can’t think of any others

Malaysia - although that's because large Chinese and Indian minorities over-perform economically, the British left behind a justice system and a rule of law that is still adhered to in preference to sharia law, and militant forms of Islam have only gained a small foothold so far.

12 posted on 10/06/2013 11:03:48 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Pan_Yan

We are paying to enforce the Saudi border with Yemen at the same time that the unofficial Prez order has come down to NOT enforce our own with Mexico.

If there is a historical precedent for that then I’m all ears.


13 posted on 10/06/2013 11:17:52 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Closest thing I can think of was after the earthquake we helped seal the border between Haiti and Dominican Republic. Ironic to say the least.


14 posted on 10/06/2013 11:28:03 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Off the subject, by barely.

A simple question - Why do western countries assign women diplomats to Muslin countries? Is there no common sense in the world anymore?


15 posted on 10/06/2013 11:46:01 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Gen.Blather

Why are governments so stupid as to send ambassadors to Islamic hellholes?

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And they send a woman to a scuzzlim country. Idiots!


16 posted on 10/06/2013 1:29:50 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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