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US sends troops to Yemen as Al Qaeda gains ground
Yahoo ^ | 5/11/12 | Anna Mulrine

Posted on 05/12/2012 8:08:34 PM PDT by Libloather

US sends troops to Yemen as Al Qaeda gains ground
By Anna Mulrine | Christian Science Monitor – Fri, May 11, 2012

The week after revelations by a double agent that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was trying to take down a US airliner with an underwear bomb, the Pentagon announced that it has begun sending US troops into Yemen.

The move is part of a US effort to increase pressure on the terrorist outfit based in Yemen at a time when the Yemeni government is weak and only now beginning to emerge from a period of political turmoil. The troops will help train Yemeni soldiers, and together with a campaign of drone strikes and an increased intelligence presence, the aim is to hold AQAP in check while rebuilding the Yemeni government's capacity to fight its own battles.

US forces had been on the ground training Yemeni forces last year, but President Obama suspended the mission in the wake of political turmoil in the country. In February, Yemen's autocratic ruler of 30 years, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was replaced in a democratic election, making the return of US troops possible.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; troops; troopstoyemen; us; waronterror; wot; yemen
Yemen. Bet they have gay marriage there.
1 posted on 05/12/2012 8:08:36 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Didn’t a senior State Department official say about a month ago that Al Qaeda no longer represented a threat since so many jihadis had been killed? Or am I just totally mistaken?


2 posted on 05/12/2012 8:14:03 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Libloather; All

I thought the war on terror was over??


3 posted on 05/12/2012 8:20:42 PM PDT by KevinDavis (The birther movement was started by a 9/11 truther..)
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To: Libloather

I’ve wondered when we would go in and root them out.

Its probably necessary. The president announces the war is over, although its not, and carries on with another military incursion. His supporters will go along with it because its their guy doing it. If GW, or President Palin, sent the troops into Yemen you can be confident they’d be throwing a hissy-fit about now.

As it is they just pretend it isn’t happening and at the same time pretend O is a conquering hero, depending upon the needs of the moment.

In any case, the jihadis already control chunks of Somalia and a goodly chunk of Yemen. The Saudis and Yemenis are after them but probably have a good number of sympathizers in their own forces and their own officer corps. There is no bright line between “moderate” wahabis and the jihadis. They pretty much think exactly the same things.


4 posted on 05/12/2012 8:28:30 PM PDT by marron
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To: Libloather

So now we will send our troops to die on Yemen soil. AND, why???? Just like in other Arab counties .... so their women, dressed as Zorro, can be able to drive cars !!!!!!!


5 posted on 05/12/2012 8:33:16 PM PDT by jmax (Ahhhh...life is so frigging good in the obama nation.)
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To: marron
Yemen, Somalia: why the HELL are our troops there?
TOTAL loser mission, the entire near and middle east, TOTAL.
They have NOTHING for us anyway.
6 posted on 05/12/2012 8:35:59 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: bergmeid

“Or am I just totally mistaken?”

I’m MIB, please look straight into this pen..right here..(FLASH)..As you were saying about pork futures??? Continue.


7 posted on 05/12/2012 8:50:18 PM PDT by Puckster
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To: bergmeid

“Or am I just totally mistaken?”

I’m MIB, please look straight into this pen..right here..(FLASH)..As you were saying about pork futures??? Continue.


8 posted on 05/12/2012 8:50:18 PM PDT by Puckster
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Obama bows down to Saudi King | American Thinker | April 02, 2009 | Clarice Feldman | Posted on 04/02/2009 8:19:47 AM PDT by rdb3
Obama bows down to Saudi King | American Thinker | April 02, 2009 | Clarice Feldman | Posted on 04/02/2009 8:19:47 AM PDT by rdb3

9 posted on 05/12/2012 8:52:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Libloather.


10 posted on 05/12/2012 8:53:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: cloudmountain

That is where the enemy is. That’s where you kill them. You don’t want them here again (9/11).


11 posted on 05/12/2012 10:05:42 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Libloather

anything to keep our boys offshore and subject to ‘technical and logistical difficulties’ voting...


12 posted on 05/12/2012 10:48:01 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; cloudmountain; All

I would rather fight them there than over here.


13 posted on 05/13/2012 5:03:34 AM PDT by KevinDavis (The birther movement was started by a 9/11 truther..)
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To: Libloather

The only reason they’re announcing this is because something untoward happened and they’re covering their asses.


14 posted on 05/13/2012 5:32:01 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (The best way to punish a - country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great p/p)
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To: KevinDavis
I thought the war on terror was over??
15 posted on 05/13/2012 5:47:29 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: KevinDavis

KD, I’ve been thinking lately that we might want to entertain fighting them here. The screwy ROE’s would not apply and I think it would be short lived and very efficient. Oh drat. How’d that slip out. More caffine
needed.


16 posted on 05/13/2012 6:22:57 AM PDT by vortec94
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To: KevinDavis
I would rather fight them there than over here.

NO question about that.

17 posted on 05/14/2012 10:47:55 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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