Another US drone strike hit Yemen’s Shabwa Province today, killing at least seven people who were described as “suspects.” It is the second strike in less than 24 hours, with a hit yesterday killing four others. It is also the fifth US strike in less than two weeks.
None of the slain were identified, but the US strikes are reportedly part of an effort to foil an al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) plot against Yemen, which the Yemeni government says is now completely foiled.
According to Yemeni officials, AQAP plotted to take over several cities in southeastern Yemen, including key port towns and the major cities of Hadramaut Province, blowing up pipelines in an attempt to sew confusion.
The ports were seen as the key to the plot, with large numbers of foreign oil and gas workers in place. The AQAP fighters reportedly planned to seize the facilities wearing Yemeni military uniforms and take the foreigners hostage.
While Yemen says the plot is entirely foiled and over, the US has yet to weigh in, nor has it indicated when it plans to reopen its embassies across the region.
Taking over cities means sizable forces are required to do that. Unless al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula now has a small army with battalion size forces and all of the support and logistics that requires, I think these claims by the Yemeni government can be categorized as BS.
The use of drones doesn't sit comfortably with some. This is why.
They were going to take over multiple cities, but really needed those 11 guys, huh? and that is granting for the sake of argument that all the guys were even related to the plot, which as we know they almost certainly were not, and also granting that there was such as "plot", which is a coin flip.
All that drone war is about safeguarding the Saudis tyrant regime and Saudi Arabia peninsula, from Persian gulf to Black Sea and North Africa, Saudi Arabia is where the USA money coming from, that's where the largest and the most dangerous barbarians are coming from, that's where the English and American president and prime ministers and king of Sweden kiss the hand of these regimes.., why did you people think that Obama policies is about the Islamization of entire world, why did you people think that USA trying by all means to guard Middle East by militarizing the region.., for protecting Israel? you were wrong then and are wrong today, Saudis are first then is Israel, without the money from Saudis USA will go bankrupt in less then a year.., that is to say when Saudis stop buying us militarism hardware and invest in us bankrupt rotten banking system, in reality what Israel gets for free, Saudis double paying for it, Wahhabis business and political relation with America in comparison to AIPAC is nothing.
They can’t even identified the persons killed, but they are claiming that the plot was foiled, one question, why are the embassies still closed? You have to be brain dead to believe this stuff.
This story is nothing but bullshit propaganda churned out by the US and their flunkies in Yemen. Obama's extrajudicial killing of 11 (suspected) terrorists (foiled) a (plot) of the supposed magnitude in the article above? Give me a break. Obama, and the flunkies in the US Congress can (now) tell us
that (their) illegal spying (has) made the world (safe) for democracy. democracy with a (little) d. I recall O won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009…