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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That applies to deserters and traitors, not to real Americans.
And my wife keeps wanting me to go on a cruise out of the country. I told her as long as odumba was pres....NO!
I would imagine that the Americans left in Yemen are Muslims and have family there.
sounds like they are Muslims who are trapped there.
Don’t really know. If that is really the case then it is a little misleading by not revealing that, IMO.
It does say Muslim groups are behind the effort to get Obama to act.
Obama isn’t going to do squat because a failed attempt and the deaths of possible rescuers on his hands could screw up his legacy.
Well, frankly, Islam doesn’t register on my GASF meter.
I propose we exchange Bo Berghdal for the remaining Americans in Yemen.
“All day the question I ask myself is: Why is the United States not helping us?” said Sallah Elhushayshi, 21, of Brooklyn, who said he went to Yemen last year to get married and visit family. As he spoke by telephone from the city of Taiz, gunfire crackled in the background.
Apparently, those remaining in Yemen are recent immigrants who went there to visit family and remained long after official US personnel had evacuated. When Americans go to unstable nations and get caught in some upheaval, there is a definite limit to have far the US should go to assist them. There is a time when folks must assume the risks and consequences for their own decisions.
Exactly correct, my take is that these people are in fact Yemen but somehow (marriage?) also have a US passport. I would wager very few real US citizen (US passport only) are still in Yemen.
Bingo. Prolly (errantly) assumed Odumbo would have their backs, just like the parasites here at home.
pretty f*cked up if you ask me just like his foreign policy
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