dick, Well duuuuh, anyone and everyone working black ops in a hostile country is a target. Where did you get your military training, the Boy Scouts?
On Dec 28, 2:27 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > You obviously don't understand that these people are targets with what > they are doing to protect us. Lightening up just don't cut it when it > comes to trying to protect the lives of these men and women who take > these jobs. > > > > Hollywood wrote: > > 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=14�078168&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=14�078168&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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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. 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