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US' Next War Target: YEMEN

Seymour Gray | 30.12.2009 17:43 | Guantánamo | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Terror War

Yemen is US' Next Target on War Against Terrorism ... Obama promised to crush Al-Qaeda in Yemen ... The US government announced its relentless commitments to crush terrorists in Yemen. Yesterday, Barack Obama promised ‘accelerated offensive’ against militants in Yemen by citing the example of a 23-year-old Nigerian who supposedly wanted to bomb a US bound airliner. The president of that North American country said he would commit ‘every element of national power’ to perform another mission in the Middle East, a region which holds huge oil and gas reserves. But many experts have questioned Washington's seemingly aggressive military drive into the Middle East as whether it is designed to destroy the Al-Qaeda militants or just making up excuses to boost military presence to control vital energy resources.

Northern Yemen Tribes
Northern Yemen Tribes


The US government decided to attack another country based on the assumption that the Nigerian bomber visited Yemen before his attempted bombing of the airliner. The main problem is where are those Al-Qaeda elements in Yemen, a country currently experiencing a factional war between Houthis in the north and the government forces since at least 1978.
US air force earlier this month launched several cruise missile attacks on suspected Al-Qaeda targets but instead killed a few civilians. The Yemeni government receives $ 70 million a year in financial assistance and more from pipeline project from Washington to join the war on terrorism.  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news716.htm
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in Saudi Arabia. It was named for al-Qaeda and claims to be subordinate to that group and its leader Osama bin Laden. Like al-Qaeda, it opposes the Al Saud monarchy. .....  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula

Picture: Northern Yemen tribes have been at war with the central government since at least 1978 ...  http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news716.htm

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supposedly!?

30.12.2009 18:24

...citing the example of a 23-year-old Nigerian who supposedly wanted to bomb a US bound airliner

Are you crazy? What are you, somekind of mormon or something?
THe guy gets on a plane having said afterwards that he got the bomb stuff from Yemen and you want to MAKE EXCUSES FOR HIM? I suppose your twisted logic support the blowing up on airline planes full of people because they are americans?

Max


@max

30.12.2009 19:41

chill out max....no one really knows the facts. you weren't there, neither was anyone you know...so to say "supposedly" is actually quite a clever and appropriate and reasonable comment. Those that grasp a "decent" level of literary etiquette, or even a tad of journalism, will know that it is better sounding, and therefore more polite, to avoid actual assertions of fact that cannot truly be measured by those receiving your information.

ie. its easier to say "allegedly" or "supposedly" than "actually" and "for a fact", especially as we know not to trust what the mass, corporate media agenda dictates to us. BECAUSE WE WEREN'T THERE.


And also, on the subject of Yemen. The country is steeped in relative-to-new-world-order history, especially the bomb and grenade attacks against british army targets that eventually drove the UK out of Yemen years ago - which then led to devastating civil war,( which continues today in varying forms and degrees).
Its Islamic history is also interesting.
The US will find probably their biggest ever fight, and loss, if they enter Yemen as they have Irag and Afghanistan. I support those that oppose US/UK armies in their homelands. Yemen is not a place to be messed with lightly,the tribal warriors there will not fear america, as they do not fear them anywhere else. and why should they? America are as incompetent, imperialist invader as any that have ever been. They will suffer the fate of all imperialist/neo-colonialist armies and states - downfall and decay. The "system" is decaying everywhere you care to look. US is just trying to get its hands on everything it can before it really takes off,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

dave copeland


next war already started a while back

31.12.2009 00:31

several months ago US, saudi and yemeni forces were bombing villages in the Yemen, and civilians have already been reported killed by the dozens.

the Saudi war planes are mostly British made Tornado IDS jets which are supplied complete with EDO MBM bomb racks.

EDO MBM in Brighton are the 'design authority' for the HDERU bomb rack used on the Tornado.

another reason to protest in Brighton on Jan 18th.

http:www.smashedo.org.uk

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language debate

01.01.2010 23:16

"chill out max....no one really knows the facts. you weren't there, neither was anyone you know...so to say "supposedly" is actually quite a clever and appropriate and reasonable comment. Those that grasp a "decent" level of literary etiquette, or even a tad of journalism, will know that it is better sounding, and therefore more polite, to avoid actual assertions of fact that cannot truly be measured by those receiving your information.

ie. its easier to say "allegedly" or "supposedly" than "actually" and "for a fact", especially as we know not to trust what the mass, corporate media agenda dictates to us. BECAUSE WE WEREN'T THERE."

But then you could apply this rule to any report or comment on the site which isn't first-hand (although of course Indymedia is not the "mass, corporate media").

And, dave, does saying "I support those that oppose US/UK armies in their homelands" mean you support the actions of the Iraqi resistance and the Taliban?

Richard
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