On Dec 28, 4:49 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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��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 -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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