The latest assessment from the CIA shows a disturbing growth in the capabilities of al-Qaeda’s various offshoots, and the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) group in particular.
According to The US has been providing aid to the Yemeni government for quite some time, and has launched a few missile strikes of its own in the nation, including a failed attempt to assassinate US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki on Christmas Eve.
Ironically it was a day later that the failed bombing attack of the Christmas Day Underbomber brought renewed attention to Yemen and calls for the US to start launching a more formal war against the AQAP in the nation.
The endless “calls to action” against Yemen come as the Yemeni government is contending with two distinct separatist movements on opposite sides of the country and a crumbling economy. The US military aid to the government has grown considerably under the Obama Administration, but with fighting on so many fronts it seems that they are fighting a losing cause.
"The US has been providing aid to the Yemeni government for quite some time, "
Translation: The US government has been bribing Yemen into allowing them to take over and run their country the way the US government normally takes over and runs other countries.
They're simply grouping South Yemenese secessionists with al-Qaeda.
This is probably the weakest ploy ever but it looks like an attempt to divert global attention away from and fool the Qaeda into thinking that its lower on the hit list so that it becomes complacent. Just my own thoughts, doesn't mean I am right. Nobody ever is.
But they are still Al-Qaeda, right?
Charles
How about this: withdraw the U.S. naval bases in Bahrain and Qatar. Withdraw the base in Kuwait. Withdraw the base in Saudi Arabia, which the Saudis only agreed to when the U.S. lied and said satellite pictures showed Iraqi invasion troops on the border. (Russian and commercial satellite pictures later proved there were no such troops – too late.) Withdraw the occupation troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Apologize deeply and with billions of dollars in compensation for the 500,000 Iraqi children killed in the 1990s from malnutrition caused by U.S. sanctions and U.S. weekly bombings of Iraqi water refineries and power plants. Apogize deeply and with billions of dollars in compensation for the Iraqi invasion of Iran in the 1980s, which caused two million deaths and was carried out with weapons supplied by the U.S.
Tell Ethiopia to withdraw its troops from Somalia, which was invaded in a U.S.-funded strategy to end the peace imposed by the Islamic courts when they defeated the murdering, raping warlords who Ethiopia now has returned to power. Give the Islamic courts billions of dollars in compensation for funding an invasion of their country.
Stop supporting corrupt dictators across the Middle East who squander their people's money, and who get U.S. support in exchange for not complaining about Israel's genocide of the Palestinians.
Then apologize to the Palestinians and the Shia Muslims in southern Lebanon for providing the weapons with which Israel has killed tens of thousands of those people. Immediately halt the billions of dollars given to Israel every year. Demand that Israel pay back the enormous "loans" from the U.S. that they never have had to pay a cent on before. Demand that Israel give up its illegal nuclear missiles, numbering 200-400. Demand that Israel give up the rest of its weapons of mass destruction, its biological and chemical weapons. Demand that all Israeli soldiers and officers guilty of murdering Palestinians in the occupied territories, often just shooting them down for fun in the streets, be handed over to the International Court in Hague for sentencing. Demand that Israel withdraw its settlements and Jew-only roads in the occupied territories, the 22 percent of land that the Palestinians have left. Demand that Israel compensate for the systematic destruction of Palestinian civilian and economic infrastructure, by rebuilding it completely with Israeli money and paying billions of dollars annually to the Palestinians for at least a decade.
To do this, you will first have to make U.S. foreign policy serve American interests, not Israeli ones. As one White House aide remarked in the 1990s, the entire office in the State Department for dealing with the Middle East is staffed with Jews. Which pales beside the fact of AIPAC's influence in Congress, upheld by the Zionist media bosses who never expose the far-reaching Israeli influence in Washington.
This will begin to address the damage done to the Middle East by decades of Israeli control of U.S. foreign policy. THEN, there won't be a need to talk about a "gigantic clash of cultures" because much less than half a percent of Muslims strike back a little bit against the U.S. on behalf of its many victims. There won't be a need to deal with al-Qaeda in Yemen or anywhere else, because al-Qaeda is fighting only to free the Middle East from outside control, which they have stated many, many times. Something that is still completely ignored by the main U.S. media owners.