U.S. Embassy in Yemen Attacked
Wed, 2008-09-17 04:16
#1
Frustrated Mess
U.S. Embassy in Yemen Attacked
Wed, 2008-09-17 04:16
#2
Frustrated Mess
Attackers exploded a vehicle bomb outside the main gate of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Wednesday in what appeared to be a well-coordinated assault that triggered more explosions and heavy gunfire around the compound.
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR200809... Post[/url]
Thu, 2008-09-18 05:59
#3
Sandy47
The timing is interesting. Might this be the harbinger of increased terr'ist activity in advance of the quadrennial US show-elections in November?
quote:
Attackers used vehicle bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons to mount a coordinated assault on the U.S. Embassy here Wednesday, leaving 10 guards and civilians dead outside the main gate but failing to breach the walled compound.
Whew! It's good they didn't get in...
but there's even better news
quote:
No Americans were killed.
Stunning to think that no Americans were guarding the gates of a US embassy in the Middle East. Were the Marines on their lunch break?
Thu, 2008-09-18 10:20
#4
quote:
Originally posted by Sandy47:
[b]Stunning to think that no Americans were guarding the gates of a US embassy in the Middle East. Were the Marines on their lunch break?[/b]
I wonder if Bush has farmed that out to some security company.
Thu, 2008-09-18 11:01
#5
ElizaQ
'No Americans were killed'...
Apparently not now,
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/yemen.american/index.html]US student: husband killed in Embassy Attack[/url]
quote:
Eighteen-year-old Susan El-Baneh and her husband of three weeks died holding hands, her brother said, victims of a terrorist attack Wednesday on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
American citizen Susan El-Baneh, 18, and her Yemeni husband of less than a month were killed in the attack.The Lackawanna, New York, native, a high school senior, had gone to the Arabian Peninsula country a month ago for an arranged marriage. She and her husband were in the waiting area of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, trying to find out the procedure to bring her spouse back to the United States. Susan El-Baneh was the only American killed in the attack.
Whats just as bizarre is that alot of reaction from internet land is, yes this attack is horrible but 'is this the Repub distraction?' People are just expecting that since the tide seems to be turning in the Dems favour that 'something' is going to happen.
Thu, 2008-09-18 16:42
#6
quote:
Originally posted by ElizaQ:
[b] Whats just as bizarre is that alot of reaction from internet land is, yes this attack is horrible but 'is this the Repub distraction?' People are just expecting that since the tide seems to be turning in the Dems favour that 'something' is going to happen.[/b]
Is someone suggesting that the Marine guards were moved out of the way prior to the attack?
Thu, 2008-09-18 17:12
#7
ElizaQ
quote:
Originally posted by Toby Fourre:
[b]Is someone suggesting that the Marine guards were moved out of the way prior to the attack?[/b]
No nothing specific like that. It's just chatter at the discussion board level. I think there is such a thread of cynicism because of recent history running through people that everything is suspect and the possibility that it's some orchestrated ploy to win the election. The same thing is happening with the email hacking issue. Some people are convinced that it's a Rovian hoax meant to garner sympathy for the Repubs and set up the Dems and one the other side it's a nefarious Obama orchestrated infiltration to mess with the Troopergate investigation.
Tue, 2009-12-15 22:11
#8
[url=http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16571]Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula[/url]
Yemen will become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabia - whose state-to-state relations are among the strongest and most durable of the entire post-World War II era - on one hand and Iran on the other...
The New York Times in 2008 divulged these details:
"In the 1980s, Jalaluddin Haqqani was cultivated as a 'unilateral' asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work in fighting the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, according to an account in 'The Bin Ladens,' a recent book by Steve Coll. At that time, Haqqani helped and protected Osama bin Laden, who was building his own militia to fight the Soviet forces, Coll wrote." [9] Coll is also the author of the 2001 volume Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.
Haqqani's colleague Hekmatyar "received millions of dollars from the CIA through the ISI [Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence]. Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin received some of the strongest support from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and worked with thousands of foreign mujahideen who came to Afghanistan." [10]
This past May the (superlatively) pro-American president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, told the American NBC news network that Taliban is "part of our past and your past, and the ISI and CIA created them together....It (the Taliban) was (a) monster created by all of us...."
"Millions of dollars"? It was more like billions of US taxpayer dollars and additional aid from Saudi royals. And US whistleblower Sibel Edmonds says it's ongoing with everything from totally serious funding of thousands of madrassas to the selling of US nuclear weapons secrets to the nationals of unstable countries which are deliberately made unstable by western economic and trade and covert military policies.
Wed, 2009-12-16 02:58
#9
from the above link:
"Yemenis are the latest to learn the Pentagon's and the White House's law of the jungle. Along with Iraq and Afghanistan which counterinsurgency specialist Stanley McChrystal used to perfect his techniques, Yemen is joining the ranks of other nations where the Pentagon is engaged in that variety of warfare, fraught with civilian massacres and other forms of so called collateral damage: Colombia, Mali, Pakistan, the Philipines, Somalia and Uganda.."
And as is frequently the case in such things, once again we find satan's little helper Canada hard at work:
Canada Yemen Relations
http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/saudi_arabia-arabie_saoudite/bilate...
"The Canadian International Development Agency assists in developing capacity to maintain security and stability...Canada continues to seek institution building opportunities in Yemen through Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada's Global Peace and Security Fund and Counter Terrorism Capacity Building assistance.
Canadian trade interests in Yemen have increased in the last decade as a result of private sector involvment in the oil and gas sector. Several Canadian firms play a major role in this sector and account for a major share of Yemen's oil production..."