Al-Qaida in Yemen offering bounty for Americans

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Yemen: Al-Qaida offers bounty for US ambassador

SANAA, Yemen — Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa or an American soldier in the country.

An audio produced by the group's media arm, the al-Malahem Foundation, and posted on militant websites Saturday said it offered three kilograms of gold worth $160,000 for killing the ambassador, Gerald Feierstein.

The group said it will pay 5 million Yemeni riyals ($23,000) to anyone who kills an American soldier inside Yemen.

It said the offer is valid for six months.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-world-middleeast/20121228/ML.Yemen/

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Cool !

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How could this be. Has someone released a new movie that makes it justified and is it part of a peaceful protest of love gone wrong. ?

Tune in at 5

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Might have something to do with this...

Anatomy of an Air Attack Gone Wrong

In rural Yemen, a botched attack on a terror suspect kills 12 civilians and destroys a community.

BY LETTA TAYLER | DECEMBER 26, 2012

SANAA, Yemen — The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies were dusted with white powder -- flour and sugar, the witnesses said -- that the victims were bringing home from market when the aircraft attacked. A torched woman clutched her daughter in a lifeless embrace. Four severed heads littered the pavement.

"The bodies were charred like coal. I could not recognize the faces," said Ahmed al-Sabooli, 22, a farmer whose parents and 10-year-old sister were among the dead. "Then I recognized my mother because she was still holding my sister in her lap. That is when I cried."

Quoting unnamed Yemeni officials, local and international media initially described the victims of the Sept. 2 airstrike in al-Bayda governorate as al Qaeda militants. After relatives of the victims threatened to bring the charred bodies to the president, Yemen's official news agency issued a brief statement admitting the awful truth: The strike was an "accident" that killed 12 civilians. Three were children.

Nearly four months later, that terse admission remains the only official word on the botched attack. A Washington Post article, published on Dec. 24, reports that "U.S. officials in Washington, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said it was a Defense Department aircraft, either a drone or a fixed-wing airplane, that fired" on the vehicle. But the people of al-Bayda still have received no official word as to who was responsible for the deaths -- the United States, which in the past year has accelerated its covert targeted-killing program against Yemeni-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula; or the Yemeni government, whose new president, Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi, was installed with Washington's help.

The information blackout on terrorism-related killings is not limited to al-Bayda. The United States has revealed only the barest details of its 400 estimated strikes on alleged militant targets in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia over the past decade. The attacks, carried out by the CIA and the Pentagon with unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), manned warplanes, and cruise missiles, have reportedly killed at least 2,800 people, according to sources such as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) in London. Yet in most cases, Washington refuses to even confirm or deny any role in the strikes, much less acknowledge whether any civilians were killed. With the United States leading the way on obfuscation, allies such as Yemen have no qualms about following suit, leaving no one accountable when attacks kill the wrong people.

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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/12/26/yemen_air_attack_civilians_dead?wp_login_redirect=0

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Might have something to do with this...

Speaking of shopping until you find a website that agrees with your position.

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Speaking of shopping until you find a website that agrees with your position.

It's not surprising that you have no idea what Foreign Policy Magazine is.

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Might have something to do with this...

If people would keep their own side of the street clean, we wouldn't have to clean it for them.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

It's not surprising that you have no idea what Foreign Policy Magazine is.

I do -it's a far left super biased publication that among other recent articles--Called Israel a failed state. Said the real shock of the Ft Hood slaughter carreid out by a radical Muslim, was that it had not happened before, and the real reason it happened was because Muslims were uncomfortable.

Excerpt from recent articles

The authors argued that such circumstances would be "enough to inspire conflict in the minds of even the most patriotic of American Muslims in the U.S." So much so that it should be "no surprise" that "one unstable member of this community finally erupted in violence."

It's our fault. Americans aren't making Muslims "comfortable." And the article specifically cited "Christian right-wing rhetoric" as a catalyst in the "Muslim alienation" which led to Hasan's shooting spree.

"Since Sept. 11, Muslims have faced increasing racism, employment and housing discrimination, and vandalism," wrote Simon and Stevenson. "Media coverage dwelling on the violence associated with radical Islam and ignoring the respectable lifestyles of most American Muslims, along with Christian right-wing rhetoric casting the campaign against terrorism as a clash of religions, has contributed to the public's misunderstanding of Islam."

The article applauded the general Muslim population in America for rising above the fray and rejecting "violent protest or reaction," despite the refusal of Americans to open welcoming arms. They warned, though, that if Americans don't learn how to play nice, Muslims may not be able to stand it much longer.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/carolyn-plocher/2009/11/20/foreign-policy-magazine-ft-hood-happened-because-muslims-aren-t-com#ixzz2GfvWLvC4

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Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/carolyn-plocher/2009/11/20/foreign-policy-magazine-ft-hood-happened-because-muslims-aren-t-com#ixzz2GfvWLvC4

You are using a right wing blog as a credible source?

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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/18/the_real_shock_of_fort_hood

Steven Simon is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Jonathan Stevenson is a professor of strategic studies at the U.S. Naval War College.

Edited January 1, 2013 by The Patriot

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You are using a right wing blog as a credible source?

You don't think a left wing blog is going to tell the truth about them do you ?

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You don't think a left wing blog is going to tell the truth about them do you ?

I would tell you to find the source, and read for yourself, but it seems Newsbusters couldn't even get the publication right the first time, then when they "fixed" their mistake, they didn't bother to update the link to the intellectually written article the author made fun of like an imbecile.

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You don't think a left wing blog is going to tell the truth about them do you ?

Foreign Policy Magazine is NOT a left wing blog. This publication was founded long before blogs existed. Right Wing Nut Jobs are hilarious. They know absolutely NOTHING at all. Republican education policy at work. Hurray!