Thread: Yemen Update

The killing of rebel leader by drones-fired rockets in Yemen is apparently not doing the trick, as it is reported today that rebel forces have overrun a military base there.
A Secret License to Kill by David Cole | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...military-base/

Below is a list of US covert actions that is similar to the long list in Gore Vidal's little book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.
http://madmikesamerica.com/2010/08/s...of-us-history/

Originally Posted by Tom Palven

The killing of rebel leader by drones-fired rockets in Yemen is apparently not doing the trick, as it is reported today that rebel forces have overrun a military base there.
A Secret License to Kill by David Cole | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Protesters overrun Yemen military base - Spokesman.com - Sept. 20, 2011

Below is a list of US covert actions that is similar to the long list in Gore Vidal's little book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace.
Secrets of US History | MadMikesAmerica

I dunno, that second link classifies the Korean War as a low intensity conflict... I'm seeing a slightly skewed viewpoint there.

Classifying conflicts where Depleted Uranium rounds were used as conflicts that deployed chemical and biological weapons is also bogus.

Otherwise our shenanigans in Yemen are typical one tyrant get's deposed while we kill to support another tyrant.

Originally Posted by JDJarvis

Otherwise our shenanigans in Yemen are typical one tyrant get's deposed while we kill to support another tyrant.

We have to wonder why the "Arab Spring" doesn't apply in Yemen as it did with other nations.

Originally Posted by fishjoel

We have to wonder why the "Arab Spring" doesn't apply in Yemen as it did with other nations.

Maybe Hillary could give us a good explanation on why gunning demonstrators down in Syria is a hideous crime ( which it of course is ), but gunning them down in Bahrain, yemen and Utzbekistan not so much...........!!!!!


Jen

Originally Posted by Jen

Maybe Hillary could give us a good explanation on why gunning demonstrators down in Syria is a hideous crime ( which it of course is ), but gunning them down in Bahrain, yemen and Utzbekistan not so much...........!!!!!


Jen

I'm not sure if Lucifer Clinton would have anything to say on the subject that would make any coherent sense.

It has to do with money really.. It always does...

In Lybia Ghadaffi wanted to start an African bank.. he done... well maybe...

Well there is certainly going to be plenty of bases to strike from.

U.S. builds drone bases in Africa, Arab Peninsula: report - Yahoo! News

U.S. builds drone bases in Africa, Arab Peninsula: report
By JoAnne Allen | Reuters – 3 hrs ago


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.

One base for the unmanned aircraft is being established in Ethiopia and another base has been installed in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, the newspaper reported.

A small fleet of "hunter-killer" drones resumed operations in the islands this month after an experimental mission demonstrated that the unmanned drones could effectively patrol Somalia from there, the report said.

The U.S. military also has flown drones over Somalia and Yemen from bases in the African nation of Djibouti and the CIA is building a secret airstrip in the Arabian Peninsula to deploy drones over Yemen, the article said.

The White House declined comment on the report.

The United States and Seychellois officials have previously acknowledged the drones' presence in the island but have said that their primary mission was to track pirates.

But classified U.S. diplomatic cables show that the unmanned aircraft have also conducted counterterrorism missions over Somalia, about 800 miles to the northwest, the Post reported.

The newspaper said the cables, obtained by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, reveal that U.S. officials asked leaders in the Seychelles to keep the counterterrorism missions secret.

Originally Posted by michael h

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al Qaeda affiliates...

What a lot of tosh!

In Libya US, UK, France are fighting hard to bring Al-Q to power, don't even complain when Abdul Hakim Belhaj, the new security commander in Tripoli, demands an apology from US and UK for his rough handling; and in other parts of Africa US is building a ring of secret drone bases suposedly "against Al-Q"????!!!!!