Posts Tagged ‘Yemen’
Al-Qaeda, Sanctuaries, and the Coming American Invasion of Yemen
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | 1 January 2010 Ask The Expert: Will Yemen Become A Major Al-Qaeda Sanctuary? After a Nigerian national who claims to have trained with Al-Qaeda in Yemen allegedly tried to blow up an international flight on Christmas Day, and following two Yemeni military airstrikes on suspected Al-Qaeda meetings this month, [...]
In 2010 the “Yem/Som” War: America Prepares to Encircle Saudi Arabia, While Securing the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea
Antiwar | By Justin Raimondo | 30 December 2009 Next Stop: Yemen The panty-bomber and US foreign policy The abortive efforts of the "panty-bomber" have inspired the War Party to focus on a new front in our ongoing and seemingly permanent "war on terrorism": Yemen, a godforsaken outpost of medievalism and sun-scorched desert on [...]
Preparing the Battlefield: America Moves “Al-Qaeda” to Yemen
The Independent | By Patrick Cockburn | 29 December 2009 Some in the US already see Arab state as 'tomorrow's target' Washington has quietly been supplying military equipment, intelligence and training to Yemeni forces Yemen is the Afghanistan of the Arab world. It is the poorest Arab country, its government is weak, its people are armed, it [...]
Iraqi Resistance Regularly Intercepts Video Feeds from U.S. Drones
On 17 December 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Iraqi resistance ("insurgents") had been intercepting video feeds from U.S. drones, by using cheap software like the Russian program, SkyGrabber, "to regularly capture drone video feeds" being beamed down to field commanders. (more...)
Full Transcript of Obama’s 60 Minutes Interview on Afghanistan and Pakistan
CBS | 60 Minutes | 13 December 2009 Afghanistan and Pakistan “Keep in mind, Steve, what I'm saying here. We are gonna be drawing down combat forces after 2011. That doesn't lessen our commitment to a strong security partnership with Afghanistan. It doesn't mean that we won't be providing logistical support, that we won't be providing training [...]
Et tu, Barack?
The Globe and Mail | By Lawrence Martin The President who betrayed his reform agenda On war, it's Bush/Cheney all over again You too, Barack? Barack Obama wasn't exactly considered a liberal hemophiliac. But given his degree of enlightenment, it was thought he'd at least steer clear of exaggerations and escalations worthy of Lyndon Johnson [...]
Obama’s Af/Pak Speech: We’ll Escalate, While Retreating
Spiked | By Sean Collins | 3 December 2009 A bizarre declaration of war-and-withdrawal In sending an invading force of 30,000 and admitting the war is unwinnable, Obama’s Afghan policy is as dangerously unhinged as Bush’s was. In a much-anticipated speech at the West Point Military Academy on Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced a new [...]
Arianna Huffington on Obama’s “No Exit” Strategy
Huffington Post | By Ariana Huffington | 7 December 2009 Sartre Meets Afghanistan: Obama's "No Exit" Strategy To take some of the sting out of his decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, President Obama laid out an exit strategy by setting a date -- July 2011 -- on which troops will begin withdrawing. The president, [...]
An “Af/Pak” View of Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Speech
U.S. Military Prevails over the President Obama Misleads the American People, as America Escalates, in Preparation for Indefinite Occupation of Afghanistan, and Open War on Pakistan Jump to: Implications for American Opinion | American Politics | Atlantic Alliance | Afghanistan-Pakistan | Conclusions “Waiving all considerations of right [...]
Full Text of Obama’s Af/Pak Speech at West Point
Following is the official transcript of President Obama's speech; it replaces the preliminary version, provided by NPR, posted earlier in this post. The graphic has been added by afpakwar.com. Listen to the Speech: White House | Office of the Press Secretary | 1 December 2009 Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way [...]
