But why would you therefore make them more of a target then, for shits and giggles??? Apparently that is what our media is doing.
Hollywood wrote: > 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哨蕭078168&hostName=www.mercurynews.com嚙箠on=/nation-world&siteId=568&siteName=San >>>> Jose Mercury News",600,400);>Email <javascript: >>>> popup("email","/portlet/article/html/fragments/email_article.jsp?article=14哨蕭078168&hostName=www.mercurynews.com嚙箠on=/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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