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classicman 08-16-2010 01:21 PM
Secret War on Terrorism
 
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WASHINGTON — At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba.

But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the province’s deputy governor, a respected local leader who Yemeni officials said had been trying to talk Qaeda members into giving up their fight. Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, accepted responsibility for the death and paid blood money to the offended tribes.

The strike, though, was not the work of Mr. Saleh’s decrepit Soviet-era air force. It was a secret mission by the United States military, according to American officials, at least the fourth such assault on Al Qaeda in the arid mountains and deserts of Yemen since December.
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Lamplighter 08-16-2010 01:56 PM
Classic, that's an very good article ! Thanks

Each one of these incidents makes more enemies that it kills, and their friends and families will remember all it for generations.

classicman 08-16-2010 02:55 PM
Guess it wasn't so secret - eh?

xoxoxoBruce 08-16-2010 05:10 PM
No it wasn't, I knew about it shortly after it happened. :confused:

classicman 08-16-2010 06:28 PM
well then stay away from my virgins up there.
Hey, who is your ISP? Godlink?

xoxoxoBruce 08-16-2010 09:11 PM
It was on the web, as a matter of fact it was predicted, we would strike in Yemen, although some said Israel would do it. Maybe they did?

classicman 08-16-2010 10:22 PM
whatever - just stay away from my virgins - you dog.

xoxoxoBruce 08-16-2010 10:24 PM
No, dogs are harram.

lookout123 08-17-2010 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 676874)
Classic, that's an very good article ! Thanks

Each one of these incidents makes more enemies that it kills, and their friends and families will remember all it for generations.
The obvious answer to that problem is bigger bombs.

Lamplighter 08-17-2010 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by lookout123 (Post 677042)
The obvious answer to that problem is bigger bombs.
It seems someone has already given an answer to this here

lookout123 08-17-2010 02:36 PM
So you're saying we should use bigger bombs on a guy who sang a crap song?

Pico and ME 08-23-2010 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 677048)
It seems someone has already given an answer to this here
:biggrinlo

Holly3278 09-05-2010 12:03 AM
This doesn't surprise me in the least bit. I wouldn't doubt it if the US military is engaged in other "secret" anti-terrorism activities around the world.

xoxoxoBruce 09-05-2010 01:48 AM
Welcome to the Cellar, Holly3278. :D
It's been a pretty open secret that the government has been working covertly, since at least since WW I.

TheMercenary 09-06-2010 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Holly3278 (Post 680715)
This doesn't surprise me in the least bit. I wouldn't doubt it if the US military is engaged in other "secret" anti-terrorism activities around the world.
:fumette: I would certainly hope so, and expect it!


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