dick, Lighten up. It's not like they published their names, descriptions and what hotel they are staying at. It's not as if no one on the bad-guys side can't figure out such simplistic things.
On Dec 28, 11:57 am, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > <javascript: > popup("RePrint","http://www.reprintbuyer.com/mags/knightridder/reprints.html",600,400);>Reprint > <javascript: > popup("RePrint","http://www.reprintbuyer.com/mags/knightridder/reprints.html",600,400);> > <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php> > <http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_14078168?source=email#>Print > <http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_14078168?source=email#> > <javascript: > popup("email","/portlet/article/html/fragments/email_article.jsp?article=14078168&hostName=www.mercurynews.com§ion=/nation-world&siteId=568&siteName=San > Jose Mercury News",600,400);>Email <javascript: > popup("email","/portlet/article/html/fragments/email_article.jsp?article=14078168&hostName=www.mercurynews.com§ion=/nation-world&siteId=568&siteName=San > Jose Mercury News",600,400);> Font Resize > > U.S. has a covert front on al-Qaida in unstable Yemen > > By Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth > > New York Times > > Posted: 12/27/2009 06:42:16 PM PST > Updated: 12/27/2009 10:24:00 PM PST > > WASHINGTON --- In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United > States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against al-Qaida > in Yemen. > > A year ago, the CIA sent some of its top field operatives with > counterterrorism experience to the country, according a former top > agency official. > > At the same time, some of the most secret special operations commandos > have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics, > senior military officers said. > > The Pentagon is spending more than $70 million over the next 18 months, > and using teams of special forces personnel to train and equip Yemeni > military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces, more than doubling > previous military aid levels. > > As U.S. investigators sought to corroborate the claims of a 23-year-old > Nigerian man that al-Qaida leaders in Yemen had trained and equipped him > to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day, the > plot casts a spotlight on the Obama administration's complicated > relationship with Yemen. > > The country has long been a refuge for jihadists, in part because > Yemen's government welcomed returning Islamist fighters who had fought > in Afghanistan during the 1980s. The Yemen port of Aden was the site of > the audacious bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole in October 2000 by > al-Qaida militants, which killed 17 sailors. > > But al-Qaida militants have made much more focused efforts to build a > base in Yemen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Advertisement > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > in recent years, drawing recruits from throughout the region and > mounting more frequent attacks on foreign embassies and other targets. > > The White House is seeking to nurture enduring ties with the government > of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and prod him to fight the local al-Qaida > affiliate, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, even while his > impoverished country grapples with seemingly intractable internal turmoil. > > With fears also growing of a resurgent Islamist extremism in nearby > Somalia and East Africa, administration officials and U.S. lawmakers > said Yemen could become al-Qaida's next operational and training hub, > rivaling the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan where the organization's > top leaders operate. > > "Yemen now becomes one of the centers of that fight," said Sen. Joe > Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, chairman of the Homeland Security > and Governmental Affairs Committee, who visited the country in August. > "We have a growing presence there, and we have to, of special > operations, Green Berets, intelligence," he said on "Fox News Sunday." > > Yemen's remote areas are notoriously lawless, but the country's chaos > has worsened in the past two years, as the government struggles with an > armed rebellion in the northwest and a rising secessionist movement in > the south. Yemen is running out of oil, and the government's dwindling > finances have affected its ability to strike al-Qaida. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
