Showing posts with label Yemen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yemen. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Yemen protesters attempt to storm US embassy, repelled by police (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

So this won't stop until the film's maker is executed, and then what, all of the actors to?
With no one around to claim credit, which is rather bizarre, how can one help but not see this as a false flag used to create even more friction.
American people have tired of the revenge lust upon the Middle East for 9/11. Something.... had to rekindle the flame....


Yemeni police reportedly shot a protester, as hundreds of demonstrators stormed the US embassy in the capital city of Sanaa. Police forced the crowd to leave the embassy premises.

Conflicting casualty figures have emerged: Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that at least one person was killed in the clashes, citing witnesses, while the Yemeni embassy in Washington denied reports of fatalities.

Embassy staffers were taken to a secure location, the Yemen Times reported.

Plumes of smoke rose outside the embassy as protesters chanted "Death to America", witnesses reported.

Two cars exploded after two bombs were thrown into the embassy compound, and heavy gunfire was also heard in the area, local media reported.

The gathered crowd said they are refusing to leave until the filmmaker behind the controversial anti-Muslim movie ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is executed.

Muslims have taken to the streets across the Middle East in protest against the US amateur film satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. US embassies around the world have responded to the unrest by tightening security measures.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

29 Dead in 8 Days as U.S. Puts Yemen Drone War in Overdrive



29 dead in a little over a week. Nearly 200 gone this year. The White House is stepping up its campaign of drone attacks in Yemen, with four strikes in eight days. And not even the slaying of 10 civilians over the weekend seems to have slowed the pace in the United States’ secretive, undeclared war.

At this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, you’ll hear lots of talk about the Obama administration’s pursuit of al-Qaida and its allies — including, of course, the raid that ultimately took out Osama bin Laden. But the hottest battlefield in this worldwide conflict isn’t likely to receive much attention. It’s a shame, because the fight in Yemen is one that demands discussion. Not only does the White House consider al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula to be the extremist group most likely to strike in the United States. But the American response to that threat was been widely questioned by regional experts, who wonder whether U.S. drones and commandos aren’t being duped into fighting on one side of a civil war.

The latest attack came in Hadramout province, where a barrage of eight missiles slammed into a suspected militant safe house on Wednesday

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Yemen: 10 civilians killed as air strike hits wrong target


Have you ever noticed that Al Qaida always shows up where there is no central bank?
Think about it

Ten civilians were killed in a Yemeni government air strike that had apparently missed its intended target – a car carrying Islamist militants – residents and tribal officials said yesterday
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Officials initially said a US drone had killed five people in the attack on Sunday evening.
But residents said yesterday that a Yemeni warplane had hit a car, killing 10 people, including a 40-year-old woman and her 10-year-old daughter. "The car that carried the al-Qa'ida militants happened to pass in the same place where the civilian car was," a tribal official said

Gas pipeline blown up in Yemen


oh hell, lets just add to the day.
Coz the hits just keep on coming

A pipeline transferring Yemen's liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Balhaf export terminal in the south of the country has been blown up by unknown assailants.

According to a local official, the incident took place early Tuesday when a bomb planted underneath the pipe in Safir fields, in the Marib Province, east of the capital city of Sana’a, went off.

The official further added that several other bombs were found and defused in other points in the same area.

The 320-kilometer pipeline which connects Marib Province to Balhaf has been repeatedly targeted with attacks.

Monday, November 15, 2010

U.S. Pursues Wider Role in Yemen

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704658204575610623765564574.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

It's time for the taxpayers to now fund Yemen in the "War on Terror"
OMG, they have al Qaeda. The question at this point is who doesn't?
al Qaeda seems to be as virulent as NYC's bedbug infestation.
There is just no getting rid of them and they're spreading or at least that's what our government would have us believe.


The U.S. is preparing for an expanded campaign against al Qaeda in Yemen, mobilizing military and intelligence resources to enable Yemeni and American strikes and drawing up a longer-term proposal to establish Yemeni bases in remote areas where militants operate.

The developments are part of a U.S. scramble to step up the hunt for members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist organization behind a recent failed attempt to blow up two planes over the U.S. using bombs hidden in cargo.

Limited U.S. intelligence experience in Yemen has created "a window of vulnerability" that the U.S. government is "working fast to address," a senior Obama administration official said

Monday, January 4, 2010

British and American embassies in Yemen closed over al-Qaeda threat

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/6926728/British-and-American-embassies-in-Yemen-closed-over-al-Qaeda-threat.html

More money pledged to another country, oh where oh where will they shit this up from?

Britain and the United States were forced to close their embassies in Yemen on Sunday after al-Qaeda’s increasingly powerful local affiliate called on Muslims to kill every Western diplomat on the Arabian Peninsula.

As the United States and Britain scrambled to contain the growing threat from Yemen, David Petraeus, the top US general in the Middle East, was sent to Sana’a over the weekend with a pledge to double American counter-terrorism aid to £87 million.

Both states are also to step up their efforts to train Yemen’s armed forces to take on al-Qaeda.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Northwest Bomb Plot 'Oddities'

http://www.legitgov.org/northwest_bomb_plot_oddities.html

Have you ever noticed oil and al Qaeda go hand in hand?
Uncanny isn't it!


Got it? Write a book critical of the CIA -- you cannot fly. Carry explosives (allegedly from Yemen) on board when the US is trolling for an excuse to invade and occupy Yemen for its oil -- yes you can! The US needs false flags to provide cover for illegal invasions and occupations. The 9/11 terrorist attacks (aka inside job, six ways to Sunday) worked well for the US government; the security-industrial complex made billions and US corporaterrorists were able to negotiate the wholesale theft of Iraq's oil.

According to CNN, the terror suspect's father tried to warn authorities. CNN reported: The father of a man suspected in a botched terror attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria recently with concerns his son was planning something, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday. The father -- identified by a family source as Umaru Abdul Mutallab -- contacted the U.S. Embassy "a few weeks ago" saying his son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had "become radicalized," the senior administration official, who is familiar with the case, told CNN.

And yet, Abdulmutallab was not obliged to undergo any additional airport screening layers, prior to boarding for the last leg of his journey to Detroit.

Also, lest we forget: Three key provisions of the Patriot Act are scheduled to expire 31 December 2009. Hmm. I wonder if post-Abdulmutallab they will get renewed?

Abdulmutallab was thwarted by a quote, unquote vacationing movie producer, Jasper Schuringa, who, within seconds, asserted that he not only tackled the suspect and put him in a headlock but also tried 'to search his body for any explosives' (CNN). Unless one was a bona-fide law enforcement professional or a military agent, who on earth would think of searching a man who had just set himself on fire, in a matter of seconds, for more explosives?

The goal is Yemeni oil. Hence the reason for the destabilization and the purported need for the US to stop al-Qaeda (literally, 'the database'). The Yemeni national security chief has declared that the country is receiving assistance from the US in the crackdown on what he called 'al-Qaeda operatives' in southern Yemen (Press TV). Translation: US corporaterrorists want Yemen's oil and they want it NOW.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Suspect's Privileged Existence Took a Radical Turn

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126187511080506063.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read#articleTabs%3Dcomments

Profiling is an interesting thought, but I think it would be more useful to profile the universities rather than a religion. By the way security didn't work, the bomb failed.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's life until mid-2008 reflected his lofty status as the son of a prominent Nigerian banker, with a prestigious education and luxury apartment in London. After graduating from a prominent London university that June, however, Mr. Abdulmutallab soon began showing signs of trouble.

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.After a stopover in Dubai to continue his education, he defied his family's wishes and went to Yemen, vowing to study Arabic and Shariah law. An attempt to re-enter the U.K. in May was denied by border officials who said the college at which he was applying to study was of questionable legitimacy. Authorities haven't named the college.