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2009-12-15 Arabia

US 'sends special forces to Yemen' amid crisis

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Can anyone tell me how true this is?

I notice it's from the .ir domain.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-12-15 01:28|| 2009-12-15 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Having Special Operations teams in Yemen and military advisors assisting the Saudi Air Force would actually fit the Washington goal of being all things to all Mooslims while at the same time, destroying our military.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-15 04:20|| 2009-12-15 04:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Can I call them, or what?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-12-15 06:00|| 2009-12-15 06:00|| Front Page Top

#4 (1) It's Iran media, folks.

(2) It's Iran media, folks.

(3) Iran's also supplying, training etc. the Houthis.

Posted by lotp 2009-12-15 06:33|| 2009-12-15 06:33|| Front Page Top

#5 It's Iran media, folks.

Are you suggesting they're less accurate than the MSM?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-12-15 07:05|| 2009-12-15 07:05|| Front Page Top

#6 As accurate as the MSM. They just don't have the decision logic branch that says,

Does this involve a decision of Obama.
If yes, ignore.
If no, be creative, blame [random: neo-cons, Rush, Sarah, Fox].

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-15 09:08|| 2009-12-15 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Moronic, if true. Let the Sauds clean up their own back yard.

Posted by mojo 2009-12-15 11:12|| 2009-12-15 11:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Having an advisor team there is good news if true. We must take the fight to our enemy, where ever he is. We know with some certainty that AQ has move operations there. If we leave it to the soddies or the Yemmenes then we will have made the same decision we made allowing AQ to grow in Afghanistan and the Sudan. All politics aside we must hunt and kill AQ no matter what country they find refuge in.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-12-15 11:37|| 2009-12-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Very plausible this.

Posted by newc 2009-12-15 12:03|| 2009-12-15 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Personally I'd be happy to see Yemen decend into Somalia like anarchy if it wasn't a risk to closing the passage through Suez.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-12-15 19:21|| 2009-12-15 19:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Couldn't we just bomb them back to the Stone Age?

Oh, wait - they're already there....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-15 20:08|| 2009-12-15 20:08|| Front Page Top

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