Yemen: U.S. Deployment May Trigger Attacks

Strategic Forecasting | 7 March 2002

[donozark]

US should seize Socotra Island. Use it as a Nava/Air Base and staging area for our ops. Easily defended. Could contruct air field larger and much closer to the action than Diego Garcia Is.

[TADSLOS]

Recon by Fire. Let's see what develops and how many scorpion nests they uncover.

[Frances_Marion]

"Yemen: U.S. Deployment May Trigger Attacks"

Warning, water may be WET.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

Dear Peace loving Citizens of Yemen: Da Boogie Man Comin' ta getcha!.........And there's not a D*** thing you can do about it

[Robear]

Can't we just take over the planet and be done with it already?

[Lion's Cub]

Thought you'd be interested in this.

IIRC, doesn't the bin Mahfouz(sp?) family own a big stake in the oil pipelines there? I'm thinking one of them runs a Canadian oil company that either owns a big part of the oil pipeline or won the exploration rights in that "untamed" territory, though I can't find it in my notes anywhere.

I did come across this old info in repy #27 by Betty Jo.

Anyway, in researching all of this I found that Vernon Jordan, of Monica fame , represented one Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi, who headed the National Commercial Bank of Saudi, having taken over for Khalid bin Mahfouz.This Khalid and his son,Abdul Rahman used this bank to get millions of $$$ to bin Laden.Guess what the bin Mahfouzs also do? They own Yemen Holdings Limited,which along with PSA Mid-East Private Limited make up Yeminvest which is the big developer of the Port of Aden. Whats my point? Vernon Jordan,friend of Bill, represents two Sheihks who funnel $$$ to bin Laden, who are biggies in the Port of Aden development

And this is an excellent review thread COLE BOMBING:DID YEMEN & ADEN PORT AUTHORITIES COOPERATE w/ISLAMIC TERRORISTS? from October of 2000. I'd forgotten about Helms. I may have to change my assessment of why some republican senators are retiring.

[Free the USA]

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[donozark]

The outright seizure of Socotra Is. is LONG overdue IMO. Diego Garcia is just to far away from the action. Too small. Socotra could easily serve as a base of ops for not only SF but main force units. Naval assets as well as aerial. Air support could be "on-station" very rapidly. Socotra could be more easily defended than a base in Yemen proper.

I believe it was Tony Snow who referred to Yemen as "...a Club Med for terrorists." IMO it is Chechnya with an ocean view. Real nightmare for our troops. Imagine getting orders assigning you to Yemen as one of one-hundred US troops!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!

[donozark]

The same "right" we had to seize Iwo Jima, Guam, Okinawa, etc. A "right" clearly earned after the bombing of the Cole and certainly after Sept.11. If the UN doesn't like it? They can go pound salt.

[Lion's Cub]

The same "right" we had to seize Iwo Jima, Guam, Okinawa, etc. A "right" clearly earned after the bombing of the Cole and certainly after Sept.11.

I whole-heartedly agree. Puting troops into Yemen as a base would be suicidal. Pakistan is bad--Yemen looks ten times worse to me. I remember the reports of the whole town of Aden gathering to watch the attack on the Cole.

[mafree]

bttt

[aristeides]

FYI.

[Travis McGee]

Presumably your Hereford chaps are back in their old stomping grounds already.

[Twodees]

This sounds absolutely bizarre. 100 US soldiers being sent to Yemen to help train their security forces hunt down Al-Queda operatives is insane. Yemenis have no intention of hunting, arresting or turning over any AQers. What is much more likely is that 100 US soldiers would wind up being held hostage or slaughtered and dragged around through the streets in fronmt of TV cameras as in Somalia.

If some US soldiers are going to be sent, why not an army into Yemen and another into Saudi Arabia? We're going to fight these lunatics sooner or later or become their servants. All of this idiotic blather being printed as though these maniacs are our allies is getting on my nerves.