Terrorists turning Yemen into another Afghanistan

Terrorists turning Yemen into another Afghanistan

We must act or do something if we are to hopefully win this war.

Just like Bush, Obama goin' after dem terrorists...
:cool:
3rd front: US takes terror war to Yemen
29 December 2009, US quietly takes terror war to Yemen

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In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the US has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against al-Qaida in Yemen. A year ago, the Central Intelligence Agency sent several 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 secretive 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, to train and equip Yemeni military, interior ministry and coast guard forces, more than doubling military aid levels. As American investigators sought to corroborate the claims of a 23-year-old Nigerian man who said 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 port of Aden was the site of the audacious bombing of the American destroyer Cole in October 2000 by Qaida militants, which killed 17 sailors. The White House is seeking to nurture enduring ties with the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and prod him to combat the local Qaida affiliate, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

With fears also growing of a resurgent Islamist extremism in Somalia and East Africa, lawmakers said that 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.

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Obama Vows to Disrupt and Dismantle Terrorists in Wake of US Plane Incident
28 December 2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will use every element of its national power to thwart and defeat enemies seeking to launch terror attacks. Mr. Obama’s remarks came in the wake of Friday’s foiled bomb attack on a U.S. airliner.

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President Obama made a brief statement in Hawaii where he and his family are vacationing for the Christmas holiday. The president outlined a series of steps designed to enhance airline security in the wake of Friday’s incident in which a Nigerian national allegedly tried to detonate explosives aboard a Northwest Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Mr. Obama sought to reassure Americans in the wake of the incident that the government is doing all it can to protect citizens from terrorist attacks and to keep up the pressure on those who would attack the United States. “We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us — whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, or anywhere where they are plotting attacks against the U.S. homeland," Mr. Obama said.

A group known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the airline attack in an Internet statement on Monday. There was no independent verification of the claim by the group, which said the bombing attempt on the airliner was in response to U.S. efforts targeting al-Qaida in Yemen.

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