Heavily armed militants opened fire on the United States Embassy in Sana, Yemen, on Wednesday and detonated a car bomb at its gates, in an attack that left at least 16 people dead including six of the attackers, Yemeni officials said.
Yemeni soldiers took up positions in front of the U.S. Embassy in Sana on Wednesday.
No Americans were killed or wounded in the blast or when guards began to return fire, said a Yemeni official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Yemeni security officials and witnesses said the death toll was at least 16, including four bystanders, one of them an Indian woman. The other dead were six attackers and six security guards, the Yemeni officials said, speaking in return for anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters
Islam, the religion of peace.
“U.S.A. Embassy in Yemen Blown Up — 16 Dead!”
The Embassy wasn’t blown up. A guard booth manned by Yemen police was. That’s why no American’s were killed…
#2 Valid point.
to #1 what does religion have to do with anything?
I think it’s clear that violence solves nothing in this world. What some people refuse to understand is that violence transcends religion, colour and citizenship!
@4: to #1 what does religion have to do with anything?
No, I shouldn’t have assumed a suicide attack on the U.S. embassy was perpetrated by religious fanatics. I am profoundly sorry.
It was probably just the Apple Dumpling Gang up to their usual hijinks.
#4 “what does religion have to do with anything?”
Well, just walk through the streets of Sana’a with a cross or star of David on your t-shirt. I think you’ll find out the answer…
I’m counting down the minutes until someone blames Bush.
Hell, DailyKOS had some comments earlier (that they removed) with people blaming McCain for the bombing. He’s not even President (maybe yet..maybe not), and he’s getting blamed.
Story already buried by the Main Stream Media.
Someone tell me again, why are we in Yemen?
Of course it was religious fanatics. Think how different things would have turned out if, while Jesus was hanging on the cross, someone would have thought to go get a ladder and a pair of pliers.
#9 “Someone tell me again, why are we in Yemen?”
You mean why we have embassies in foreign countries?
#8, BullSh!t.
It was the second story I heard this morning on NPR.
Since when are attackers counted in the body count. The headline should read 10 people and 6 flaming assholes were killed.
Damn, it was just a guard booth? I thought it was too small for an embassy, but would anyone listen?… no ooooo……
LibertyLover Someone tell me again, why are we in Yemen?
Its normal to have embassies in …. oh forget it… the USA invaded Yemen because they hate Jesus and are all communists. And Yemen has long been supplying Latin American illegals with life jackets so they can cross the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande).
I agree…
The headline is a little too ‘TMZ’ for this web site…
yup, nice fear-mongering headline you’ve got there.
The important thing that is being overlooked here, is what the hell else is going on? Whenever there is an explosion, there tends to be some slight of hand at work. Keep looking to find out what is up the proverbial sleeve since a flash, bang and cloud of smoke are great cover to just about everything else….
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Don’t know about everywhere else but Headline News is only covering the OJ Simpson trial.
But, they wouldn’t cover this anyway…
#1 – Islam, the religion of peace.
I know what you’re saying, it seems odd, but it’s an accident of geography, not a statement on religion. Wars/terrorism and battles in general in Islamic countries (middle east, Yemen, etc) are going to be perpetrated by …golly…Muslims. What did you expect, Eskimos?
Now when the British and Americans were fighting (revolutionary war), it was Christians killing Christians. When the South and North were fighting (Civil War)…all Christians. WWI? Mostly Christian nations. WWII? Mostly Christian nations. When the IRA fought the UK…Christians against Christians. If you go back in the last 500 years and tally up the deaths for wars, terrorism, general attacks…it’s going to be statistically representative to the geographic area the battles took place. Boring.
And if you’re going to go on about how ‘evil’ for some group/religion to try and destroy a culture and way of life…might want to go back about 300 years and see what happened to the native Americas who used to occupy what is now America. America and it’s “way of life” came into being by forcefully killing and removing another existing culture and “way of life” We were bigger and more powerful, so we just “took” what we wanted. Are you surprised OTHER cultures act that way too?
6200 American Babies sick on stuff from china.
16 non-americans dead in yemen.
Whose the real threat?
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What a %$@#&%!!! headline. %$#@&!! idiot.
#22 [citation needed] According to CNN this morning, there are 6200 babies sick from tainted formula. It is believed that none of the formula is in the U.S. There are 6200 American babies in China?
Back to the topic. I have a theory of what’s wrong with the Middle East. Islam never had their Martin Luther. You see, all of the Western religions have this strict exclusivity built into them. Judaism is exclusive, but by it’s very design you cannot convert someone to Judaism. So that leaves Christianity and Islam as the real power players from a secular power standpoint. Martin Luther broke Christianity up into parts (not his intention, but that was the result)…which has slowly but surely drained the religious leaders of their secular power. Islam has had no Martin Luther. Their religious leaders are their secular leaders. It behooves them to keep the followers illiterate and pliable.
Christianity (and to some extent Judaism) has evolved through the last 1000 years to more and more secular views. They’ve had no choice because the people were becoming more and more educated as secular power ceased being about the “Divine Right of Kings” and more about the “Mandate from the Masses”. This should be seen as a good thing, not only from a secular citizens standpoint (good science does not evolve from God)…but also from a Christians perspective. As Jesus said, “We are in the world, not of it.”
Islam…stagnation. It exists where Christianity was 1000 years ago.
#11, I understand embassies — for friendly countries. I don’t understand embassies in countries where the populace is actively hostile to us.
#22, The reason we have 6200 sick babies is because we are giving the guys in Yemen a reason to try to kill us. If we weren’t over there, we wouldn’t need the money from China (which is paid to us in the form of trade).
So, who’s the real threat? The US government.
#25 “I understand embassies — for friendly countries. I don’t understand embassies in countries where the populace is actively hostile to us.”
So, we shouldn’t have had an embassy in the USSR, etc?
#26, If the Russians were constantly trying to kill us, then no. Note I said, “actively.”
I wouldn’t expect Russia to stay in the US either if their embassy gates were constantly being run at.
There comes a point where we have to ask ourselves if we are serving the needs of a country that doesn’t want us regardless of what the dictatorship wants.
#27 “There comes a point where we have to ask ourselves if we are serving the needs of a country that doesn’t want us regardless of what the dictatorship wants.”
Umm, do you understand that these “embassies” are there primarily to serve as a base for intel activities?
#27, And that my friend is the problem.
In the case of Yemen, I have to wonder if we shouldn’t rethink our reasons. You know as well as I do we are paying off the government there to keep it.
Are we gaining so much that we can support a dictator, an action that violates our message of spreading democracy?
Calin Islam never had their Martin Luther.
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Martin Luther broke Christianity up into parts Islam has had no Martin Luther. [snip] Islam…stagnation. It exists where Christianity was 1000 years ago.
Actually, Islam has plenty of fragmentation and different sect. First there is the major Shi’ite (which is what most Arabs follow) and the Sunni (which is mostly Persian) and sects, then there are the Sufi and the Kharijite. I don’t anything about the Kharijite but from what I know about the Sufi they are quite mystical and generally laid back. Its also worth noting that while Christianity was debating about what came after the edge of the earth and pioneering new forms of trial by ordeal, Islam was developing advanced mathematics, debating ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, creating novel poetry and generally advancing itself. Indeed, the European Renaissance happened because the crusades discovered a wealth of classical Greek and Roman texts from the middle east and started reading them.
Somewhere between then and now Islam metamorphosed into a fairly blinkered and fanatical vision (helped mostly by very wealthy Saudi clerics and very backwards Iranian dictator trying to regain the glories of the ancient Persian Empire by create his own vision of the ‘good old days’).
Islam doesn’t have to be as fanatical as it is in modern times, it certainly has gone through phases in its history of being quite tolerant. But then, intolerant forms of Christianity are also gaining ground these days with forty years of moving towards tollerance being washed away in a tide of anti-Darwin, anti-Abortion, anti-Everythingism …. seems to be the modern way everything. Even modern Humanism seems to be taking a bend towards the fanatically with the likes of Dawkins preaching that tolerance is just plan wrong ….