Posted on 04/10/2015 3:14:22 AM PDT by csvset
WASHINGTON — A Michigan family with two toddlers and an infant was stranded in Yemen after being forced from its home by rebel gunmen. A California woman tried to flee through an arrangement with the embassy of Djibouti, but failed. A mother of four from New York also tried that route, at the State Department’s suggestion, only to hear the same reply: There would be no help.
These accounts are among dozens presented in a lawsuit filed Thursday by Arab and Muslim civil rights groups seeking to force the Obama administration into taking action to bring home U.S. citizens who are stuck in Yemen’s worsening conflict.
At least eight other countries – including Russia, China and India – have rescued their citizens, but the United States has refused to launch an evacuation effort. U.S. officials claim that Yemen, where a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led air campaign is pummeling targets, is too dangerous for U.S. personnel to risk their lives, though U.S. aircraft have refueled Saudi bombers for the last two days, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said.
“You can expect we will do so every day from now on,” Warren told McClatchy.
For the Americans trapped there, the country has become a virtual prison. Its airports and seaports are either closed or subject to attack, its border routes are too dangerous to risk, and major population hubs effectively are shut off from other cities.
The U.S. Embassy is shuttered, with all the diplomats and security guards taken to safety weeks ago. From Washington, the State Department directs remaining citizens to hotlines that don’t work and to foreign embassies that can’t help, leading many stranded Americans to summarize the Obama administration’s response as: Good luck.
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No Swiss help?
Obama has said he would stand with Israel. The Yemeni president thought he had their back too.
Internationally, nations should know by now that they cannot trust this clown.
This has been going on for WEEKS, months even. Who in the heck kind of mother, parent, husband, wife ignores the warnings? Why were they still even there?
“The situation in Yemen is dangerous and unpredictable,” the official said. “Sending in military assets, even for an evacuation operation, could put U.S. citizen lives at greater risk.”
There's a website, Stuck In Yemen. I wonder if John Kerry has seen this?
Link:
Stuck In Yemen
Response:
“The requested document does not exist on this server.”
What about “No American Left Behind”?
For the US to turn it's back on it's citizens though. Hope and Change, the new normal.
Perhaps if they said they were LGBT, Kerry and Obunghole would make an effort to help them.
Our enemy islamist President is happy for any situation in which Americans can come to harm.
All they have to do is defect to the other side and Obola will move heaven earth, trade a few Gitmo prisoners to get them out.
The LGBT thing didn’t help the US Ambassador in Benghazi, did it?
Testing, testing,1,2, check
There are typically excellent vacation deals under these circumstances. The food is usually excellent and diving in the Arabian sea is beautiful. The locals are pleased to see Westerners have confidence in them. Hotel and excursion service is first rate.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g294014-Yemen-Vacations.html
But of course one must have their wits about them and be alert at all times for changing circumstances.
But what if those people were from Mexico or Central America? Bet Obama would want those Democrat votes back in America pronto.
Yep, I’m sure there are ‘good’ deals to a lot of places - Lebanon, Damascus, Cairo, etc.
Posting sent to Rush Limbaugh
Yes,
“Be aware of the situation while traveling to third world hell holes”.
Depressing isn’t it?- the US turns it back on citizens?
LGBT worthy to rescue? Not on Junior’s watch- he could care
less .
“Perhaps if they said they were LGBT, Kerry and Obunghole would make an effort to help them.”
That’s the answer.
0bama: “No man’s behind left behind”.
BO’s MO. Same as Benghazi. Initiates a fight and then leaves U.S. citizens stranded.
The LGBT remark was sarcasm, since they are the latest “in” thing, I couldn’t resist.
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