This piece by Global Research summarizes all the reports:
Five days after the unsuccessful attempt by a Nigerian student to set off a bomb aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet, US military and intelligence officials are said to be preparing expanded military action against targets in Yemen, the Arab country where the student allegedly received terrorist training and was equipped with an explosive device.
A series of US media reports suggest that new US-backed military attacks inside Yemen are imminent. Citing “two senior US officials,” CNN reported: “The US and Yemen are now looking at fresh targets for a potential retaliation strike.”
The network said the officials “both stressed the effort is aimed at being ready with options for the White House if President Obama orders a retaliatory strike.” CNN continued: “The effort is to see whether targets can be specifically linked to the airliner incident and its planning. US special operations forces and intelligence agencies, and their Yemeni counterparts, are working to identify potential Al Qaeda targets in Yemen, one of the officials said.”
Old Old Old news.
The US made airstrikes from a US aircraft carrier into Yemen LAST month, BEFORE the underware bomber. It was entirely a US operation, authorized by the Yemen government. There were at least three terrorist camps bombed, plus individual attacks on key individuals.
I like this. Green Glass, and more of it.
Can we blow the shit out of Dubai while we are at it? I am tired of listening to sancatamonious pricks talk about how awsome Dubai is, and it seems like a shock and awe bombing campaign could be carried out to great effect there.
Plus, with the destruction of the Burj, Americans could finally get some closure on the WTC bombing.
I’m still waiting for the invasion of Iraq and was promised to us two years ago already.
Great, another Middle East country to rebuild.
I’m beginning to detect a flaw in our foreign policy.
If we kill everyone, do we win?
Winning is everything!
We act as though the terrorists are a cancer we can cut out with a knife.
However, the more we cut, the more the cancer spreads.
Last two weeks we’ve had one jerk with crap down his gonch and another who had his ass handed to him by a old cartoonist. Yup, this is the great enemy.
Meanwhile 1 in 8 adults and 1 in 4 children in the US are on food stamps. Net gain in US jobs in the last decade was zero.
I think the US Government should move to Paris and attack the United States. Maybe then they’d spend time rebuilding the right country.
[Har! – ed.]
It makes perfectly good sense to spend billions of dollars, send in hundreds of thousands of troops, equipping them with highly effective and highly priced killing tools just to kill a couple of thousand religious/political freaks armed with machine guns and rpgs.
The USA: Over Engineering Since WWII.
Change
let’s just cut the foreplay ,and get in the whole middle east full force.
#5 Bobbo
How will the arms and oil industry and corporations such as Haliburton benefit from peaceful rebuilding? Much better to invade or bomb the crap out of them, then enjoy the spoils of war. Plus you get to do some in situ weapons testing.
Well, look at that!
We DID vote for BUSH!
“US preparing military strikes in Yemen.”
Why do I know this?
Why is a “news organizations” like CNN broadcasting compromising information to our enemies?
During WWII this type of spying would be considered traitorous and those involved would be severely shot.
I wonder if the “crotch bomber” is a “false flag” opperation just to give the “Administration” a reason to go after Yemen?
It’s a new decade… our time to turn the page of the policies of the past. It bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don’t understand its fundamental role. We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. We are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
With this in mind, I hope everyone will join me in another battle overseas. Don’t look at the problems at home. it doesn’t matter how bad off you are here, there’s always someone overseas you can make worse. With any luck, this decade will have back-to back crisis… pandemics, earthquakes, maybe an arm pit bomber, or a colon bomber… an ear bomber would be interesting.
So ready your children, pack them a good ‘ol American bagged lunch, and let’s go kill someone.
Can’t we just tell ’em we’re sorry?
Re: #9, qb.
Nail head, meet hammer.
…good post.
This thread should have a discussion as to why Canadians are smarter than Americans. Ah, never mind… it’s because we live in Canada.
the Voice has some interesting details.
going after their underwear industry
We might as well attack Saudi, that’s where the 9/11 guys came from (IMS), oh, and I hear there is some oil there.
From the subject article: “The Los Angeles Times cited a Yemeni terrorism expert as the source of an estimate that Al Qaeda has “as many as 2,000 militants and sympathizers exploiting the country’s economic and political chaos to create a base for jihad at the edge of the Persian Gulf.” This is ten times more than other media estimates of the number of such militants in Yemen, and 20 times the number of Al Qaeda forces said by US officials to be in Afghanistan now.
The Times report is part of an effort by the US media to portray Yemen as a lawless hotbed of terrorism and a major threat to the United States, in order to justify in advance an American attack, or even a full-scale invasion.”
Oh, BTW Somalia is right across the strait… I vote we wipe out both and then give what ever is left to the Ethiopians.
What I really want to type here would get the blog in trouble.
I think the US should adopt a new foreign policy, which I call “bat-shit crazy”. Basically, we just start randomly bombing other countries, especially the Middle East. But also Canada and maybe Hawaii.
Eventually Al-Quaeda will realize that they can’t compete with our random acts of terror and they’ll just give up.
Roger that! Go get em.
Reap the benefits of a suicide bombing that failed. That guy is probably squeeling like a pig. This is a great opportunity to hit hard. No place to go but north and that ain’t a great option.
#5 You do it. I can think of better ways to die.
The Koran says to kill everyone that opposes the word of Allah and you just said you are against him.
I think they’d kill you the first week if not the first day. Even money on the first day.
The USA is being suckered into a war. Yemen is trying to crush a shia rebel movement, not stop terrorism. With the assistance of Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia and its white-skinned poodle the United States, it will succeed.
Iran isn’t too happy of course, it works hard to increase shia power in muslim countries.
Given the nature of recent attacks, perhaps we should be attacking London, or at least London universities.
#30 I don’t get your post in response to mine. I think you’re getting delusional.
First, I see you like my oft used term ‘sheeple’. Good! If I can educate just one moron on this forum, I’m happy.
Second, if you’re implying that Obama pursuing terrorists is rather Republican like, I would say no. Obama is looking to pursue them in Yemen, not Yugoslavia.