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| Report: U.S. in secret joint operations With Yemeni troops |
| 2010-01-27 |
| U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing unnamed senior administration officials. Yemeni troops in the past six weeks have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional Al Qaeda affiliate, sources told the newspaper. The operations were approved by President Barack Obama and begun six weeks ago and involve several dozen troops from the U.S. military's clandestine Joint Special Operations Command. A Yemeni official told the Associated Press Tuesday that the U.S. military and intelligence agencies have been participating in joint operations for some time with Yemeni troops, and the two countries are currently in discussions to build a new aviation unit to help bolster Yemen's counterterrorism forces. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, said that while the intelligence sharing has been critical, the Yemen military badly needs helicopters for its counterterrorism operations. U.S. officials have said repeatedly that American advisers do not take part in raids in Yemen, but provide intelligence, surveillance, planning and other weapons assistance. As part of the operations, Obama approved a Dec. 24 strike against a compound where a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-Yemeni Islamic cleric, was thought to be meeting with other regional Al Qaeda leaders. He was not the focus of the strike and was not killed. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #8 Many thanks, faithful friends and tools at WaPo. Your reward is not paradise, since you unfortunately persist in being drunken infidels, but a "princely" sum from Saudi Arabia should meet your next payment on that cute flat in Soho. |
| Posted by: Osama bin Laden 2010-01-27 11:04 |
| #7 this just shows more of the incompetence of Zero's admin. If this effort has been going on for a while that's great. BUT, they blow the kudos with PR stunts like trying the bastards in civilian courts, mirandizing the panty bomber, etc. all to "show solidarity" with their base. Which is it? Which attitude is sincere and which is political spin? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2010-01-27 11:01 |
| #6 It got too hot for them in Iraq, so the brave foreign jihadists scampered to Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's getting too hot for them in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so the brave foreign jihadists scampered to Yemen and Somalia. Now it's even getting too hot in Yemen. Where can a brave foreign jihadist go anymore to bravely fight unarmed hotel guests and primitively armed villagers without having to worry about people fighting back in a robust way? |
| Posted by: Odysseus 2010-01-27 10:38 |
| #5 Leak from WH, the day before TSOTU Address, showing BHO is 'tough on terror'?? |
| Posted by: Tom--Pa 2010-01-27 09:49 |
| #4 From an old WSJ article on 01/04: Gen. David Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was in Yemen Saturday (01/02) "as part of our ongoing consultations with and efforts in support of Yemen," a senior administration official said. "We have made Yemen a priority over the course of this year, and this is the latest in that effort." The official called the visit "productive." |
| Posted by: Tom- Pa 2010-01-27 08:25 |
| #3 The recent huge increase of Al-Quieda in Yemen folks turning up dead was never due to the generosity or forebearance of the host nation. Someone ran an article a week or so ago about the Yemeni approval of the USAF use of the island of Socotra Island for an airstrip. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-01-27 08:08 |
| #2 "Report: U.S. in secret joint operations With Yemeni troops" ...umm, not any longer now that you've put it in the news... |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2010-01-27 07:53 |
| #1 I should have posted this on page one. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2010-01-27 06:46 |