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Al-Qaeda embassy boom in Yemen thwarted
2003-12-13
AN al-Qaeda plot to blow up the British embassy in Yemen was foiled in September, the BBC reported today, quoting London’s ambassador to the country as saying that the threat was "very serious". BBC television said 20 militants had confessed to planning to crash a truck bomb through the embassy gates after they were caught by Yemeni intelligence.
What were they planning to do before they were caught by Yemeni intelligence?
According to the British public broadcaster, security officials said the militants were receiving instructions from al-Qaeda operatives in Iran.
Oooh. Another Iran connection...
Asked how serious the threat was to blow up the British embassy, Francis Guy, London’s ambassador to Yemen said: "I think it was very serious". She also suggested there had been similar earlier plots. "We are very conscious that we are a high priority target here in Yemen and we try our best on a daily basis to review our security and improve it as much as we can," Guy told the BBC. A spokesman for the Foreign Office in London said: "I’m not going to comment on security of individual embassies and high commissions. Security of staff is of paramount concern. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to security".
Posted by:Dan Darling

#10  Frank - had to look her up - her radio show's not syndicated in SaoodiLand. Got that Hardball look! ;->

Her site
Posted by: .com   2003-12-13 3:52:55 PM  

#9  I wouldn't allow halfbright anywhere near this, I was thinking more along the lines of Coulter or Laura Ingram, who could kick the ass of any Moooslim who felt he couldn't control himself due to his tingly parts
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-13 2:48:41 PM  

#8  ed - I wonder where Allah buys his pants - they sure provide a lot of action!
Posted by: .com   2003-12-13 12:52:52 PM  

#7  As Allah says: it makes their pants go funny.
Posted by: ed   2003-12-13 11:52:53 AM  

#6  snellenr - Yeah that'd be a hoot! She's damned good at throwing them and not much on pulling them. Heh, heh. She's a pistol! And with all the leering, especially from that old hawk-faced / dove-assed Byrd... She'd tear him to shreds, methinks! Fun image!
Posted by: .com   2003-12-13 11:43:41 AM  

#5  .com -- I'd pay money to watch Ann Coulter appear at a Senate hearing, with a bonus if Leahy, Schumer, or Byrd were going to do some "questioning". "That's an idiotic question, Senator"...
Posted by: snellenr   2003-12-13 11:35:23 AM  

#4  Frank - You're not suggesting we call Madeleine Halfbright back are ya? I'd love to see Ann Coulter or Virginia Postrel appointed to an Ambassador's post in the ME. They go apeshit over blondes. Tall ones even better. Funny as hell to watch these guys when one is around (dressed normally) - schizophrenic reaction ranging from overt outrage to hard-swallowing lust! Sorta bipolar, y'know?
Posted by: .com   2003-12-13 11:27:29 AM  

#3  notice London's ambassador to Yemen is a woman? I think we should have woman ambassadors to these misogynist sex-crazed macho asshole nations, and NOBODY weirs a freaking veil! Let them know what we think of their weakness in the presence of a woman not contained in a sack
Posted by: Frank G   2003-12-13 10:51:58 AM  

#2  You be on a roll today,.com.
Posted by: raptor   2003-12-13 8:24:25 AM  

#1  I just love the Black Hats. Too full of their own piss 'n vinegar version of ubermachojihadi to lay low until they have their nuke-tipped missiles, they just have to play the game. Must be afraid the Wahhabis are getting all the asshat glory.

Yemeni intelligence - is that the new oxymoron in the intel community, these days?

If the politicos in the admin think that Dubya shouldn't topple the Black Hats before the election, they are miscalculating. We're talking about people who have done everything humanly possible to get their hands on a nuke warhead, tip a missile with a particular range, and have promised multiple times to immediately wipe out Israel when they got it. Nothing in the game of politics equates to the smallest item in that sequence, much less trumps it. Dubya - begin making the case publicly in hardcore terms. Take the gloves off - these cretins have openly promised genocide and have pulled no punches. Give them no quarter - tell the American people exactly who they are, what they are, and what they are trying to do. Fuck the UN, Elbarradi, Russia - the lot of them. This will be for all the marbles - again.
Posted by: .com   2003-12-13 3:25:28 AM  

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