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2002-11-20 Arabia

Hunt For a 2nd Most Wanted Al-Qaida Suspect Underway In Yemen

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-11-20 10:58 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do you think the other people in this guy's carpool will come down with "Hellfire Flu" all of the sudden?

"Yeah, my car's in the shop... my wife's sick... dog's got worms... ran out of baby formula... um... can't drive today, Mohammed... sorry..."

Posted by Laurence Simon 2002-11-20 13:05:52|| [users2.ev1.net/~file13/blog/] 2002-11-20 13:05:52|| Front Page Top

#2 I think he's used up his quota of luck: Yemen said yesterday its security forces were looking for a suspected al Qaeda member who narrowly escaped a missile attack by an unmanned CIA plane that killed six of his comrades earlier this month. In the first apparent admission that Yemen consented to the strike, Interior Minister Rshad Alimi said: "This operation was carried out as part of security coordination and cooperation between Yemen and the United States."

Mr. Alimi also said in a statement carried by the state news agency, Saba. that the seventh al Qaeda member left the car moments before it was hit by a missile in the Marib province on Nov. 3.

"See you guys later, hey, what's that?"...KABOOM

Posted by Steve 2002-11-20 13:25:39|| 2002-11-20 13:25:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred and Steve, what's the reason why Yemen is cooperating with us? I remember that not so long ago these guys hated our guts. News reports after the Cole attack said that the FBI was frustrated at how Yemeni authorities obstructed the investigation. Now we're flying Predators in their airspace and helping their military run proper checkpoints. Somebody over there suddenly got religion-at-gunpoint or what?

Posted by Steve White 2002-11-20 14:06:04|| 2002-11-20 14:06:04|| Front Page Top

#4 It's the old "Arabs support the man on the strong horse" theory Bin Ledan talked about. The Yemanis looked around and saw the biggest freeking horse in the world riding their way. And the Texan riding it was pissed.

Posted by Steve 2002-11-20 14:29:05|| 2002-11-20 14:29:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I imagine he wet his pants when the Hellfire struck...

Posted by Ptah 2002-11-20 15:01:19|| 2002-11-20 15:01:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Not just a big freeking horse, Steve, a big freeking flying horse...
Too bad we already named a booster "Pegasus".

Posted by Kathy K 2002-11-20 19:25:11|| [site-essential.com] 2002-11-20 19:25:11|| Front Page Top

#7 They were smart. They cut a nice deal with us where we train their soldiers and hand over intel, and Pres. Sana hammers on people he and we don't like. Conveniently, these are often the same people. Or something like that, with lots of gray areas and daily variations.

Posted by Dan Hartung 2002-11-21 07:14:41|| [www.lakefx.nu/] 2002-11-21 07:14:41|| Front Page Top

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