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| Death toll from U.S. drone strikes rises to 55 in Yemen |
| 2014-04-22 |
| [Xinhua] The corpse count of multiple U.S. drone strikes launched on Sunday against training camps of al- Qaeda turbans in Yemen's southern provinces of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and Shabwa has risen to 55, the Yemeni Interior Ministry said on Monday. Three local leaders were among the 55 dead turbans, the ministry said in a brief statement on its website. It said that its security services are working to identify the nationalities of imported muscle who were killed among al-Qaeda turbans in the The ministry described the air strikes as the strongest assault launched against the turbans since 2012, when the army retook several cities of Abyan after months-long deadly battles with al- Qaeda gunnies. In a reaction to the air raids, the turbans assassinated Monday three senior intelligence officials in two separated attacks in central Sanaa, a day after four U.S. drone strikes killed the 55 suspected turbans. Security officials said the terrorist attacks were an angry reaction to the Sunday air raids on the turban hideouts in Abyan and Shabwa. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Agreed, but some lizard part of me wants 100,000 thousand copies of the Naked Lunch dropped on these bastards. “O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...” ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-22 18:19 |
| #2 Drones and Hellfire Missiles are an effective tool. But as we have seen in PAK and AFG, they simply do not close the deal. It takes brave infantrymen, ruthlessly tracking the terrorists down, killing them, burning and destroying their sanctuaries. We're not talking some newly found military factum or a revelation of great strategic surprise. One cannot selectively weed a garden and hope for the best. People must be dealt with and removed from the land. And as in the Ukraine, [and California], new and more malleable subjects moved in to replace them. Armed drones will not be used against Cliven Bundy. Lawfare accomplished the moving off of Bundy's 52 fellow ranchers. Lawfare will likely be used to move Bundy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-04-22 08:27 |
| #1 Seems like a good way to take care of a growing terrorist problem in Yemen. We don't need another Afghanistan and 911. However, I do not want to see our government decide that the ranchers in Nevada are terrorists (as per Harry Reid's latest blitherings) and turn the drones loose on them. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-04-22 07:52 |