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.