Posted on 06/08/2011 6:45:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.
The acceleration of the American campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the government in Sana, a United States ally, struggling to cling to power. Yemeni troops that had been battling militants linked to Al Qaeda in the south have been pulled back to the capital, and American officials see the strikes as one of the few options to keep the militants from consolidating power.
On Friday, American jets killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, a midlevel Qaeda operative, and several other militant suspects in a strike in southern Yemen. According to witnesses, four civilians were also killed in the airstrike. Weeks earlier, drone aircraft fired missiles aimed at Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric who the United States government has tried to kill for more than a year. Mr. Awlaki survived.
The recent operations come after a nearly year-long pause in American airstrikes, which were halted amid concerns that poor intelligence had led to bungled missions and civilian deaths that were undercutting the goals of the secret campaign.
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Been happening since 2009.
Above from the NYT article, first I've heard of any of it!
I tell ya that Obama fellow is one slick cat. If he can't break the bank with his left wing crap he'll do it by using the Military as his proxy. After all, we all support the Military, so who can complain.
Pretty shrewd Barry. A hat-tip to you.
(in your dreams, ya moron)
Only Congress can declare war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Clause
We have and have had an Imperial Presidency since FDR. It is now in the hands of an anti-American. When will Congress act to restore our Republic?
If Islamofascists are being bombed, then I have no problem with this—part of the war begun under the Bush administration.
There have been strikes in Yemen for some time. IIRC, the first was in 2002.
It’s been limited to targeted drone strikes on al qaeda leaders hiding in the desert until now.
FWIW, George Bush had at least one drone attack in Yemen.
Obama has 5 wars going now with Tunisia and Yemen and in every one of them, he is pulling for the radical Muslim fundamentalists. With treasonous presidents like this, who needs enemy troops to destroy the nation?
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