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Saeed al-Shihri, deputy leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in a photo from undated video posted on a militant-leaning Web site in January 2009, and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group.
SANAA, Yemen — Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen died in a U.S. drone attack last year in southern Yemen, the country's official news agency and a security official said Thursday.
Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was wounded in a missile attack in the southern city of Saada on Oct. 28, according to SABA news agency.
The agency said that he had fallen into a coma since then. It was not clear when he actually died.
A security official said that the missile had been fired by a U.S.-operated, unmanned drone aircraft. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
Yemen had previously announced al-Shihri's death in a Sept. 10 drone attack in the province of Hadramawt. A subsequent DNA test however proved that the body recovered was not that of al-Shihri.
On Oct. 22, al-Shihri denied his own death in audio message posted on Jihadi websites.
Also known by the nom de guerre Abu Sufyan al-Azdi, he denounced at the time the Yemeni government for spreading the "rumor about my death ... as though the killing of the mujahideen (holy warriors) by America is a victory to Islam and Muslims."
Al-Shihri went through Saudi Arabia's famous "rehabilitation" institutes after he returned to his home country, but then he fled to Yemen and became deputy to Nasser al-Wahishi, the leader of an al-Qaida group.
John Moore / Getty Images
President Obama's one-year deadline to close the facility has long passed as shutting it down has proven complicated and controversial.
Al-Shihri's death is considered a major blow to al-Qaida's Yemen branch, known as al-Qaida in The Arabian Peninsula. Washington considers it the most dangerous of the group's offshoots.
Al-Qaida in Yemen has been linked to several attempted attacks on U.S. targets, including the foiled Christmas Day 2009 bombing of an airliner over Detroit and explosives-laden parcels intercepted aboard cargo flights last year.
In 2011, a high-profile U.S. drone strike killed U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been linked to the planning and execution of several attacks targeting U.S. and Western interests, including the attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 and the plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010.
Yemen, the Arab world's poorest nation, has fallen into lawlessness since the start of an uprising in 2011, when millions of Yemenis took to the streets demanding the ouster of their longtime authoritarian ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Al-Qaida militants exploited the unrest and took control of large swaths of land in the south until last spring, when the military, backed by the U.S., managed to drive hundreds of militants out of major cities and towns.
Since then, the group has carried out deadly attacks targeting mostly security and military officials, including suicide bombings that targeted military and security compounds.
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Everybody's happier, it's a win-win situation.
Good! The US knew that any terrorist held at Gitmo would return to that line of work ASAP. If indeed Saeed al-Shihri is dead, then he'll get his longed for meeting with Allah and then go straight to hell.
He was held at Gitmo and then released only to resume his work. This should be read aloud several times in the halls of congress and the senate. And as far as the UN investigating the legality of our drones. Let them pound sand.
You think maybe we planted a homing beacon on him somewhere?
"Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was wounded in a missile attack in the southern city of Saada on Oct. 28, according to SABA news agency."
Time has come for non-Muslims to declare war on these jihadis all over the world.
Why waste time with drone attacks?
Just carpet bomb the whole areas which shelter them!
Jonathan, I assume you know that there are a large amount of Muslims in Michigan, California, London, as well as France and you want to bomb those areas?
What was it that Cheney said about Obama??? Oh yeah, Obama is weak on terrorist. What a joke. For a man that Republicans want to call a Muslim he sure is killing a lot of them.
He's not killing alot of them you libtard fool...one here...one there...that's all...he's pulling the wool over your eyes making you think that...and not if but when it comes to playing cowboys and muslims then those in whatever state will be in dire strates...just ask the natve Americans how the last one played out...this is our country and not thewre's and no questions will be asked or quarter given when the time comes.
This article is all BS. And people just lap it up. AMAZING!
Make me laugh! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Next the CIA will tell you they got Bin Laden. They won't show you evidence, they will just tell you, in fact they will tell you they won't show you the evidence. But you will run into the streets cheering...oh, wait, that joke already happened. Ha!
So funny how people lap this stuff up!!!
flynavy
WOW, you been sucking those exhaust fumes a gain?
Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen died in a U.S. drone attack last year in southern Yemen, the country's official news agency and a security official said Thursday.
al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was wounded in a missile attack in the southern city of Saada on Oct. 28, according to SABA news agency.
So let me get this straight.......he spent 6 yrs at Gitmo, was released and went on to become the #2 man for AQ?
BRAVO BARRY!!! BRAVO!!!!
In the words of the American people.."Yesssss"
J.P. - the "CIA" didn't get bin laden, the Navy Seals did. You can do what you want with your lap.
now Larry, those are the "good muslims"
Too bad they all read the same book!
Who will be the voice on my iPhone now that Shihri is gone ?
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ANOTHER #2 dies!
AGAIN!
Yep, we got those darn terrorists on the run. It's just a matter of time before Unicorns and Rainbows consume the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Al Qaeda is bigger, stronger and better organized than before. There are many more #2's, #3's and others in the pipeline.
From Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafists and thousands of others, jihad is and will continue. These miscreants have been brainwashed since they were children. For these terrorists dying IS an option. To them dying is NOT failure, it is martyrdom. The next batches of children being indoctrinated are being taught about their sacrifice and how noble and courageous it is for the cause.
There are over 1.5 BILLION Muslims in the world. A report by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life titled “The Future of the Global Muslim Population” projects that the number of Muslims in the world is set to increase to 2.2 billion by 2030, over 26% of the worlds population. Unless Draconian steps are taken by the Muslim population to engage and defeat this death wish called Islamic fundamentalism, we will see terrorism continue for decades.
Killing Osama Porn Laden was purely symbolic. He was a figurehead at the time of his death. It was important for us to see him killed for closure on 9/11. He had already instructed Al Qaeda and all of its factions to spread not just in the Middle East but in Northern Africa. We just saw evidence of its sphere of influence in Algeria.
Terrorism is not just a picture on a "Most Wanted" poster. It is a mindset in millions of illiterate, easily manipulated, poverty stricken zealots that will continue and grow. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The biggest fear that terrorism spreads is not death, it is fear and chaos, and it has worked.
Remember, dying is not something the insanity called terrorism fears, as a matter of fact, they cherish it. This is a very formidable foe.
Great post, Jim.
These guys are like a soda can dispenser. Take one out, and gravity drops the next one right in it's place.
They're all bad ass tough, and spew all this "Allah is great" crap,..................
Then they're dead and finally get to met him........Finally......
I thought Al Queda was all but dismantled. Isn't that what the Community leader told us after Bin Laden was found?
We keep finding and killing their new leaders. Thats how you keep it dismantled.
This drone war will be never ending. It may be similar in length to the cold war, with casualties we may not even hear about. Obviously, the only answer is to continue the expensive tracking and killing of these known terrorists. However, I'm concerned, sooner or later, Al Queda is bound to slip another 9/11 in on us. This will be a near never ending feud "you killed my brother, no I will kill yours". A sad situation.
Awesome. Keep up the great work, keep building and using more drones. I'd be willing to have my taxes raised a bit to finance drone operations, no problem with that at all.
The photo of Saeed Al-Shihri is pretty comical, my first impression was that he was making a peace sign with his right hand. Nice little Pancho Villa bandoleer LOL, I heard those stand up really well to AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.
Larry and FedupwithFed: I know about Dearborn, Michigan incident.
In 9/11, Saudis and Pakis were involved.
Also many Muslims have been involved in terror actions and plots in the US, Britain, France and other places.
Here Saudi Sunnis and their pals and Pakis are the real culprits and are also responsible for the mess world is facing.
Oil price manipulations are one of the reasons for economic mess of oil importing nations.
PIIGS is one of the net results of Iraqi wars and high oil price manipulations by the backstabbing ungrateful oil rich Sunni rulers of House of Saud, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and some other Sunni Arab League nations.
Let us wipe out Saudi Arabia and Pakistan from the world map for world peace and economic stability.
You just watch the world after that action for survival.
So if we keep having to dismantle it, that means it was NEVER dismantled to start with?
we need to hold whole country's responsible for these terrorist...make them police their own...it's not americas job to do this ...if they don't like us they need to hold a election make us all leave...sounds like a win win situation...we ain't there to cause them to hate us...and if they do attack us in another country...find out what country they come from and bomb hell out of it...they'll figure it out pretty quick ...we don't have to support them with foreign aid or police they're sorry asses...staying and giving them money to squander is stupid...lot's of the money winds up in the hands of terrorist...let them make their country what they want it to be not us...
plain bob,libya was doing a good job of fighting terrorists until we supported them(not libya) in the fall of the standing gov. now they have ghadafis' weapons cache(we all know he liked his weapons, don't we? i'm sure he had YEARS WORTH of "supplies". lots of free ground to air missiles,besides all kinds of fun stuff) what now? what is this president responsible for starting?
G-Dog-787120
I stopped being happy about the drone strikes when I realized they are nothing more than a cop-out for the POTUS. Eventually the intel will dry up because our President has backed himself into a corner and can't even consider capture and interrogation as an option for some of these guys.
Everytime one of these drone stories pop up I ask a question of liberals, I've yet to get an answer but here goes again- How is it that poring water on someones face is so much worse than blowing them up along with half of their family?
This is a terrible strategy by the Coward in Chief. Drones kill the suspect but also innocent people in the area. It also destroys any vital intellegence this man may have been able to give us if he were captured. Why aren't the Libs upset about killing innocents, people who have never been tried or disrespecting the soverienty of other nations? Answer...because it is Obama and not Bush. Weak-minded parasites all.
For those who keep yapping on about the SEALs try to understand they are an off-shoot of the UDTs and are highly trained, disciplined and efficient. They are , however, a branch of the US Navy, not an independent hit team. They follow ORDERS.
Re. the CIA. They are an off-shoot of the wartime OSS. Many are ex service men. They, too, do not follow their own agenda. They follow ORDERS.
Re: carpet bombing. It did not work. Reference: Viet Nam, WW11 London and Dresden: Genocide in Uganda: How did our arch-enemies Germany and Japan become our friends? George Marshals efforts were much more effective than bombs. Stupidity should never replace common sense. The stupid advocate violence as a solution to solving difficult problems. That doesn't work either.
The strong take from the weak, and the smart take from the strong. Without compassion you have anarchy
It is amazing how Americans think that spending 500 billion dollars a year just to kill a few crazy Muslims in faraway lands is fully justified... LOL! What a load of brainwashed retards...
"Al-Shihri went through Saudi Arabia's famous "rehabilitation" institutes after he returned to his home country, but then he fled to Yemen and became deputy to Nasser al-Wahishi, the leader of an al-Qaida group."
Drones = permanent "rehabilitation!'
Yeah f_u and guess who sold the weapons to him? Mostly they came from our European allies but also from the US and even under Obama. I thought Gaddafi was a terrorist until the republicans cleared that up for me after he was dead. His government had national socialized health care, education, subsidized marriage and auto ownership; very evil! Anybody that does not understand that the USG serves the international bankster elite is a fool. "what is this president responsible for starting?" Ah, nothing; he is just as much a lap dog to monetary system monopolizing war profiteering Zionist Nazi world order as the last. They take their little lap dog mouth piece position and lip sink for the Bilderberg, Trilateral, CFR unconstitutional quasi self chosen people's central bank gangster government of planet Earth and f you, me and everyone in the name of the POTUS and lord Jesus.
Good. Another dirt bag we no longer have to deal with. Keep it coming!
"Ah, nothing; he is just as much a lap dog to monetary system monopolizing war profiteering Zionist Nazi world order as the last. They take their little lap dog mouth piece position and lip sink for the Bilderberg, Trilateral, CFR unconstitutional quasi self chosen people's central bank gangster government of planet Earth and f you, me and everyone in the name of the POTUS and lord Jesus."
PLandH:
What the hell is all your blithering mean? That you don't like Obama? Hate Jews? Hate the US Government? You sound like a terrorist yourself.
By the way, YAY FOR THE USE OF DRONES! Keep knocking off these nutcases!
Time for the United Nations to voice objection over killing these "TERRORISTS" using drones.
Just think: These guys could’ve lived happily ever after if they had just minded their own business.
You mess with the bull, you get the horns.
JimSpence
"Al Qaeda is bigger, stronger and better organized than before. There are many more #2's, #3's and others in the pipeline."
True, but it's like playing Whack-A-Mole, it just feels good when they pop up.
The intelligence on these scum bags will never dry up. Informants are paid and in these 'cultures' they nurse grievances for generations, so there is always someone wanting to get even for something. And they get paid in GOLD! We do not need spymasters on the ground, just a few discrete paymasters.
ORB 1943
Ummmm, yeah. I guess you forgot that is EXACTLY how GWB got into trouble with his WMD's.
Saudi rehabilitation center must be full of Sunni bigoted beasts like their seventh century bigoted barbarians and beasts of House of Saud and his 5000 princes and princesses and their harems.
What one can expect from them?
Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national and prominent al Qaida Sunni killer went back to his business of hating, raping, stealing, looting, kidnapping and killing for their Mohammed.
Three questions:
You'd prefer our people die or be maimed on the ground there?
Do you know how much "collateral damage" there was/ is in Iraq and Afghanistan? (Bush II)
Have you ever heard the saying "War is Hell"?
"plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010" It was never stated but I suspect at least one bomb did detonate and kill a crew of UPS or FedEx Pilots and crew. Like Benghazi our government has tried to keep it quiet for fear of letting Al-Quada know they succeeded in one bombing or attack.
' oops
Confussed: 9/3/2010 from dubai? how quiet is that?
"spent six years in Guantanamo..."
So... the way we are to read this is that someone let him out so he could go be a terrorist again? Who in he!! did that?
In November 2007, Shihri was released from Guantanamo and placed into Saudi custody, where he then entered a government-run rehabilitation program for former jihadists. Less than a year later, in September 2008, Shihri played a direct role in al Qaeda's attack on the American embassy in Sana'a, Yemen's capital. That attack killed 10 civilians, along with six terrorists.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/01/aqap_deputy_emir_sai_1.php#ixzz2IyVPIm2i
It's Bushs fault! He was one of more than 500 prisoners Bush released without even a review of his case.
"Al-Qaida in Yemen has been linked to several attempted attacks on U.S. targets, including the foiled Christmas Day 2009 bombing of an airliner over Detroit and explosives-laden parcels intercepted aboard cargo flights last year."
Fountainheads of these Islamic extremistism, especially Sunni ones, are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
It was most foolish of Bushes (Sr and Jr) and their teams to go to Iraqi wars and save the barbaric, bigoted, ungrateful and backstabbing seventh century mindset on-way traffic House of Saud, Kuwait and some more Sunni Arab League rulers from Saddam.
These oil rich House of Saud and co used Iraqi wars to manipulate oil prices from around $30 in 1991 to $140 at the height of Iraqi wars.
Most of the stories invented for Iraqi wars proved to be pure hoax.
Iranians can get as many nukes as they want from Pakis.
Similar stories are invented on Iran and sanctions on Iranian oil have jacked up oil prices from $40 in 2009 to more than currently $110 now.
It appears many politicians are sold out to Sunni oil rich rulers, oil companies and their lobbyists.
He was released for rehabilitation into the arms of the Saudi royalty, the bush family friends. Pays to have friends in the right places. We'll never be rid of the bush/cheney legacy, at least not in our lifetimes.
Who's the genius who promised to close Guantanamo years ago ??
Same guy who ultimately decided we should probably keep it open until the job is done.
No..he just found he couldn't close it because no state in the union wanted that scum in their prisons.
Congress blocked any action President Obama wanted to take, plus, no state wanted them.
I think we all would love to see them rotting in a super max type of federal prison. That is when all the obstacles are thrown up and nothing happens.
Baliman:
Just because the President wants to do something doesn't mean it get's done. Especially when you have a House that opposes each and everything the President proposes. You need to stop being a douche bag and actually learn to read and research topics. Stop relying on Faux, Rush and company. They tend to lie...a lot.
starbuck49
LOL! you've just got to laugh at liberals sometimes. The threw a ceaseless hissy fit over Gitmo right up to the day Obama took the oath. Calling GWB a monster for allowing these people to be treated like such and demanding their release. Then when one of the men released does what we all knew he'd do, they start their GWB hissy fit all over again conveniently ignoring all of the liberals who cried for the release of all of these guys.
Dennis Price
Obama took NO real action to close Gitmo. Stop believing the BS.
Take your own advice and do some research of your own moron. It was the DEMS in the Senate that blocked the closing of Gitmo just like the President knew they would. What a convenient bail-out wouldn't you agree? He knew he couldn't actually close it and he knew the idiots who support him would just blame the republicans anyway.
dear backcountry, please take off the hateglasses for a moment and admit it. Bush released this guy back out to the public. One of the arguments during the race in 2008 from the republicans, ie John McCain, was they did not want to close Gitmo and Obama was stupid to think he could. And didn't think waterboarding was wrong. Then Obama becomes Pres, they block in the House and now he broke his promise. Where have you people been?? Talk about brain washing. Far right people seem to forget the past and the reality of it. You tell us that liberals believe anything they hear and that its all lies. Have you ever thought to yourself that maybe YOU'RE being lied to? Something happens to support and favor the US and everything you want right in the world and you claim its a cover up. Can not comprehend how it could not have happened during the last near decade under an average man that started this whole mess. I can hold a dog in your face and tell you its a poodle and you'll spend hours arguing the fact that its not a poodle but a cat. Seriously. Arguing with the far right is like playing chess with a pigeon. They'll stomp all over the board, knock over the pieces, sh#!, and say they won.
How about some proof of what you say and not some ignorant right wing blog. Unlike you I've been paying attention to all of this. We were also paying attention during the Bush years when you clowns were letting him get away with everything. Before you say anything about the 2 years the Democrats were the majority, who's signature was on those bills. There were no veto over rides. That belongs to you clowns, nobody else.
Obviously you didn't read what else I posted about no state or city wanting to take them. You don't care about that though. You just want to spew hatred and misinformation.
People like you are incredibly predictable. You're everything we've come to expect and less. The more we lower the bar the less you contribute to this country. We've come to expect less from the likes of you and that's what we get. You keep coming at us with BS lies coughed up by the baggers and Faux and think we'll sit by and take it. Sorry Charlie, we don't do that anymore.
Gee, who was in charge when that idiot was released? Hmmmm, I wonder. It sure wasn't President Obama, it was before his time.
No matter what this President does you low information types won't be happy. It doesn't seem to matter to many of your friends that we're doing this done with no boots on the ground. None of our kids are getting killed. I'll take that any day of the week. You don't like it? TOUGH!
@Jen
Excellent!!! Well said!
haha, thanks. :)
"government-run rehabilitation program for former jihadists".
WTF! ... Isn't this a bit like asking the fox to guard the hen house? handing this clown off to the Saudis who probably declared him cured of his religious insanity and just winked and looked the other way is insanity in itself.
backcountry
Ok I did some research moron.
"Republicans see time on their side in blocking any plan to move the detainees to U.S. soil."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/17/republicans-chances-block-gitmo-prisoners-soil/#ixzz2J0byzr59
Hey Backcountry, I think you just got your BACK side spanked by your own (fair and balanced) news source.
Backhouse(Outhouse)
This is what happens when you can actually read and research. Something like this is a 5 minute piece of research.
We all know you don't like this truth thing. It goes against your ignorant narrative.
jen-1192917
I'm a libertarian so I'm not stupid enough to believe it is just ONE side that does the lying. Only friggin idiots get so caught up in the lies of the other side that they ignore the BS coming from their own.
Dennis Price
Proof??? Why would I even need proof? Do you have memory issues? Obama was going to close Gitmo on day 1 remember?? He had majorities in both Chambers on day one remember?? Allow me to refresh your memeory -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/20/senate-votes-to-block-fun_n_205797.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104334339
I assume ignorant left-wing blogs are acceptable??
I spent 7 1/2 years bitching about GWB only to see him replaced by a clone. Anyone who whines about GWB but defends Obama, or vice versa, is an idiot.
flnobody
If you call that research then you need to look in the mirror before you call anyone a moron. I never suggested that republicans wanted to close Gitmo or that they wouldn't oppose the Presidents attempt to do so. The problem is that, at that time, they couldn't do jack @!$%# about it on their own. Durrrrrr.
Reading a headline that supports your argument is NOT "research"
BackCountry
The President signed an executive order to move them his first day. Problem is, all kinds of problems stopped that. Even congress stopped it. Democrats ended up passing legislation to prevent it. Everybody piled on to stop it, D & R alike.
So much for good intentions. I hate politics.
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/23/169922171/obamas-promise-to-close-guantanamo-prison-falls-short
And NO, left wing blogs aren't acceptable either. The right wing ones invent better, more outrageous lies though.
Dennis Price
"This is what happens when you can actually read and research."
backcountry
I read the story, you didn't. But even just reading the headlines is more research than you did.
flnobody
LOL! The @!$%# you did!! The story was ALL about the republicans waiting for the 2010 elections hoping they'd get enough wins to block the Gitmo closing once and for all. The ONE bill mentioned in the article that was sponsored by repubs to block Gitmo closing FAILED. It's so obvious that you didn't read the story I'm suprised you'd make an even bigger fool of yourself by trying to claim that you actually did.
Dems had total control for 4 years, they pased Obamacare despite total repbulican opposition, they passed the "stimulus" despite total republican opposition but somehow the republicans, all on their own, managed to block the Gitmo closing. Yeah right. Just last year a bill that would prevent the transfer of prisoners from Gitmo went throught the Senate and PASSED 98-0, not a single democrat voted against it.
Take your bull @!$%# somewhere else kid, you're not fooling anyone.
edit- Dems has total control for 2 years...
bum, bum, bum, another one bites the dust! Hey hey!
Are you related to coach Vince?
cute: Thanks for the break. Coach Lombardi was the best, within and outside of himself. He said something about leadership that is so apt with Prez Obama, having a spiritual quality to inspire others, to let others know they can. The GBPackers stilll get an A+ for some really tough games this past season.
Inventing Saeed al-Shihris, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, is job of our "strategic ally" Saudi Arabia.
Eliminating such liabilities on earth is our job!
What a joke the whole set of acts have been reduced.
Followers of Islamic cult, especially House of Saud and other Sunni ME rulers inspired and funded Sunni Islamic radicals and militants (al-Qaida, Salaffi, Wahhabi, MB, Taliban and other label ones), are fast marching backwards to their seventh century desert tribal days.
They are indulging in rapings, lootings, killings and genocides of non-Muslims (Darfur, S. Sudan, Nigeria and spreading like wild fire in many regions and Muslims (Libya, Yemen, Mali, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other places).
In Egypt, the Sunni extremists with labels like Salaffi and MB (Muslim Bloodhounds) are opening up new chapters of Islamic bigotry. Morsi is just a front for them.
Just watch the fate of sane Muslims, minority sect/tribe people, Christians, women and Israel as the time goes by.
Even in Syria, if Assad is overthrown by Sunni Islamic religious Nazis like al-Qaida, MB, the conditions of Christians will be unbearable just like Iraq.
Pakis and Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and other Sunni Arab League nations are responsible for 80 percent of world problems including economic ones.
Examine the devastations with Iraqi wars and now sanctions on Iranian oil and the resultant oil price manipulations.
They are making the lives of their own people also miserable by their Islamic religious madness to the intolerable levels.
Can people come to realities and understand who the enemies are?
@ Jonathan "Just watch the fate of sane muslims" sane muslims? You are kidding right? Let me know when and where you find any and I will watch their fate closely, hopefully at a safe distance from a mushroom cloud. Unfortunately it is quickly coming down to "them" (the islamic disease infected animals) and "Us" (civilized, non-diseased infected humans). And FYI, this equation is not being invented by the non-infected. The time to choose sides is upon us.
Seven: Thanks for clarifying.
I have to worry about being "blocked", "banned" in "free press" NBC news too!
You only have a guarantee of free speech when you agree with them.
Like that guy in who was banned in DC for protesting during the Coronation.
Which one of these guys will be next to send us a movie of himself (remember good ol' Bin Laden used to do this every now and then) wagging his finger at us (or pointing to where he wants to go is probabaly a better charcterization of what he's doing).Don't you boys get it yet? BABOOM!
The UN is investigating drone crimes, "what should we do!?".
Roll out articles like this.
Ha.
I don't think he knows which finger to hold up.
The "plot to down cargo planes" was a false-flag from the Saudi Arabia intelligence agency.
They had the package tracking numbers and gave them to us "just in time" to be the heroes.
The ones holding the tracking numbers is the main suspect...HELLLLLLOOOOO.
The convenient acceptance of responsibility by Yemen militants was found on a website (like this one, except in Arabic) by...(wait for it)...a two-person Mossad asset in Washington D.C. - SITE Intelligence group. The same people that magically used to come up with those phony Bin Laden tapes. Amazing pair of people! HA.
Yep, that is how "we know" Yemen militants mailed those bombs on the cargo planes and not the ones holding the tracking numbers. Because Mossad said so.
Originally, Saudi Arabia announced that THE GUY IN THIS ARTICLE provided the package ticket numbers to them. But the time-table of his whereabouts didn't fit, so they stopped saying that in a hurry. Originally they said they got him from Gitmo and "rehabilitated" him and sent him to Yemen to infiltrate militants. Then he returned to Saudi Arabia intelligence with the numbers. Now they are saying he returned to Yemen but as a genuine bad guy (???????) Is this fishy or what?!?
Here is where I traced the propaganda bs.
http://world-news.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/03/5576237-yemen-helps-us-fight-al-qaeda-on-its-own-terms?commentId=50078908#c50078908
First our news media - propaganda services - told us SITE Intelligence Group had discovered a "claim" on a website. Then our news media stopped mentioning SITE. Then our propaganda services quickly stopped saying "claim". They no longer bothered to inform us that a Mosad asset -- SITE -- was the source, and they no longer bothered to say "claim".
They messed with us.
Hold on. Correction. al Fayfi and not al Shiri (the guy in this article) (both of whom spent time in Gitmo and in Saudi Arabia's rehabilitation center and both of whom returned to Yemen) is the guy that supposedly provided the Saudis with the cargo plane information.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/yemen-al-qaida-turncoat-alerted-saudis-plot
Threaten to take away money from the Republican War Machine and you get Benghazi......threaten to take away the Republican War Machine's movement throughout the Middle East and you get 911.
Oh yeah!
Hillary is being tortured by a Senate investigation of Benghazi AND the UN has started an investigation of our criminal drone activity. What should the White House warmongers do? Get Yemen officials to announce something nice about what a great job the White House is doing.
Just in time! This article is well timed to put Hillary in a good light AND counter UN charges.
By the way, this is the third time that Yemen officials said he was killed.
Jesusiswatching: Yes, you are seeing it all.
J.P.
I guess you want boots on the ground and our young soldiers in harms way and possibly dying. My, you are just a fine example of what conservatives call a good American. Let's do it the Bush/Cheney way and get even more of our kids killed.
If we kill them and none of our kids die, well, that's fine by me. It's a shame it isn't good enough for you, a good American.
Oh please, the dems are in it just as much as the reps. 2 sides of the same coin playing one off against the other which you obviously are too blind to see.
You will know them by their fruit.
"The drone had killed a US born terrorist name Awlaki". Unless he had another citizenship or his US citizenship was stripped by a court of law, he was a US citizen!!! Even that US laws usually do not protect him in a foreign country, but I do not think that Obama can order the execution of a US citizen without due process.
I am not a lawyer, but I think his family had a wrongful death case against Obama and it may require a US Supreme Court decision to clearly define the president's power.
Various police and government agencies make that determination every day.
What do you think "enemy combatant" means? 0 can make you a life long prisoner or a corpse without any rights or process. This not unlike Idi Amin Dada. And, very real. Under current federal criminal law, "independent thinking" is cause to treat, restrain and imprison a person (no wonder it is no longer taught in the public schools). [Do your own research; it's on the web.] Even your bank is required to report "any unusual behavior" it observes; so if you show up in a pink tutu and deposit 9,999 USD, the fed.gov will be informed. Better not misspell your name either.
Besides the fact that the US doesn't exist anymore (we are now a socialist democracy, USSA, which is not a republic as was the original intent), citizenship grants certain rights which have been perverted into "obligations" toward an ever amassing fed.gov. Our nation is a mere shadow of its former self. It is not unlike Hitler's Germany; next thing you know they'll be wanting to take your guns away ... then your wealth ... then a government body will decide who is healthy enough to live or not ... WAIT, they're already doing that, Komrads.
Apparently you are unaware of the fed.gov's vast universal reach. Fed.gov law applies to everyone, everywhere, all the time, no matter what, EXCEPT if you are American politicians, certain diplomats, foreign leaders or friends with the right people in Washington. Bernnie Madoff was not; the banks, AIG and Wall Street are. So much for the buzz words, "equal justice under law." Just like the word "intelligence" when spoken by a Washingtonian.
Even foreign governments kowtow to the fed.gov--except freedom loving Panama, who will flip off Washington every chance it gets. So any crime committed on foreign soil can net you 10 long as guest at Leavenworth with a handsome fine. The inJustice Department thinks its god ... Try it; you won't like it. The fed.gov has universal jurisdiction, although it has never been written in any founding document.
Ah, wrongful death. That is civil law. The fed.gov, its subsidiaries (States) and participants, while acting in the capacity of their offices, have "qualified immunity." While this sounds like a speed bumb in the lawsuit, it means you are SOL making them follow the law. The people at the U.S. inJustice Department don't watch out for citizens, they protect the asps of the felons running the fed.gov. So the US born "shook's" family will need a bevy of high priced lawyers just survive summary judgment at the prelim.
The not-so-supreme court (there should be a constitutional amendment to remove the word "supreme" from the name of the court) has stated in various challenges to the fed.gov that such a question of the powers of the various branch (the original United States had 3 branches of government, but now there are only executive orders, not unlike Cuba and Fidel, making the law of the land), are political "in nature" and not their sort issue--they don't want to be sanctioned either.
Remember Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Court Packing" Plan? Probably not. (They don't teach civics anymore because they don't want you to know how the government was supposed to work and how many of your rights have been compromised nor how constitutionally unsound most of the fed.gov really is.) Anyway it was an early Democratic attempt to get rid of liberty loving judges who opposed the socialist programs and propaganda of the villainous Democrats (they were communists even back then in the 1930's) trying to destroy the country and revoke the rights formerly guaranteed under the three founding documents. It wasn't nearly as successful as the pretenders currently destroying the American experiment.
AH, those were the good old days when espousing "Stalin", "Lenin", "socialism" and "communism" would land you in the slammer until someone remembered you hadn't been feed. Now that rhetoric is the whole platform of the Democrats.
To give equally recognition to the other majorly inept political party, those Republicons talk a good game to get your money, then, not unlike 0, deliver nothing except the same socialist crap the Democrooks support. Kiss your asp and the dog good-bye. Don't buy bonds; the nation is insolvent. ;-)
No sane, reasonable, God-fearing, honest person would go to Washington and do what those mafia drones do and show her face. Their actions and the results clearly say, "corrupt".
Why do you fools listen every time? ©2013
Looney Tunes. You need to get some help, fast.
Brycub,
If you were referring to Blue N Gold as looney tunes, you are sadly mistaken. He hit the nail square on the head. You are the looney tunes for believing that our current regime in Washington is looking out for your best interest. Our current Government is the largest mafia in the world, run by the most corrupt people on earth. There is no turning back time, and the inevitable fall of our society/country is already in motion.
If he's so patriotic, why does he hate America and the American system of government so much.
If you think the USA has been the "Socialist states of America" Since 1934, you're free to move to a Libertarian paradise like Somalia or Afghanistan. You won't have to worry about the government getting in your way, and you're free to start up your own business without government support or interference (you'll have to pay for your own security of course, but you wouldn't want to be a freeloading parasitic taker).
right, blue and gold. hate america realworld? that last part says it all(progressive) you actually LIKE the goverment being able to do these things he talks about? blue is the one in the REALWORLD. please leave that fantasy world you are in, or maybe change that "real", huh?
Any reason we can't used this on the Drug Cartel,??? or does that make too much sense??? uhh unless; of course the cartel are funding this for us and the Government is smoking the profits away... hahahah But seriously WHY NOT?? kinda makes you wonder.
Drones......coming to a location near you.....
No evidence.
No Trial.
Not even a pretended trial.
talk about putting both hands into the grinder
first we help a dictator
second we put our kids in the thick of a mess to help the dictator
there is a reason we call them dictators
they are dicks
we need to get our @!$%# straight or everyone will be our enemy
dam dictator started it
i say let the alquida idiots root out the dictator
then we strike the idiot alquida
Anyone for a done attack on the DUMB ASS that let this guy out of prison?
Isn't time we start holding the people who make these decisions responsible!!!!!
I don't think people get what a big deal drone are to future warfare.Jet fighters,bombers,drone strike and surveillance weaopons.All very impressive.Without some control of immigration to the western world it is all worthless and the destruction of the west,its values and its progressive future is assured.
oops there goes another rubber head azz
Allahu Akbar sir.
The problem with these articles is that the United States citizen has no authenticity to establish to know whether these claims are true or not. We are supposed to merely accept what we are told about these rogue groups of Islam. However, and not to diminish the importance of the positive aspect of these combat missions - we have terror domestically that is not addressed by the very same persons claiming to fight terror overseas.
The lies inherent mimic that of Hitler to the German people just prior to WWII.
Where the vast majority of Germany were confused as to what was actually taking place and much of the information was muddled or concealed from them, as they nodded in agreement to their seemingly sound and increasingly popular national leader.
Americans understand the terror by the Islamic Jihaad. But Americans also understand the terror caused by rogue police officers on domestic soil that is left neglected, but equally as offensive as foreign terror against Americans.
Each time I read these articles, I want to see a matched article of the terror occurring on domestic soil as well.
Telling the truth is a virtue.
Terror from any entity is still terror.
Start telling the truth Washington. I hate liars.
Talk about the terror here in the US, too.
It's real, deadly, and harming Americans probably even more than what the Taliban is causing as a matter of fact.
Or - I will start to assume that rogue police officers domestically are members of the Taliban because their actions are the very same, and report them as enemy combatants to higher level authority.
How un-American! Loser. Go back to your Middle east country and spout off about our country, you're just as crazy as the terrorists
Brycub,
Go back to your warm & cozy blanky, it will be OK. Our Government will comfort you and keep you safe. What a brainwashed sheep!
"Talk about the terror here in the US too"
Oh, you mean the handful of domestic terror attacks compared to the 20,285 deadly terror attacks by Muslims since 9/11.
Muslims kill more people in one year than were killed in the 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition.
Muslims kill more people every day than the KKK killed in 50 years.
Muslims have killed 270,000,000 to 400,000,000 over the past 1,400+- years.
Your attempted equivocations blow road kill.
This is great news but there are thousands more as crazy as him ready to take his place and die. I'm all in favor of continuing drone killings but hey, give us some video to enjoy.
Then, they will die!!!
THIS STORY APPEARS TO BE PROPAGANDA FLOTSAM.
Everything distributed by the disAssociated Press is cleared by the White House before public release, just like Moscow.
You are living in Dresden and you don't even know it. [Do your own research; it's out there.] ©2013
...." THIS STORY APPEARS TO BE PROPAGANDA FLOTSAM "....
you forgot the jissem to go with that !!
Your comment appears to be PROPAGANDA FLOTSAM.
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Oh, isn't it easy to blame the evil United States, when the doctors who failed to save this piece of excrement were really at fault?
Why are we still over there shooting at rag heads when north korea say "we are going to target the US with our next nuclear launch"? The second that ass wipe said that we should have erased north korea from existance.
N. Korea has nothing to do with Israel. They're right next door to China, our masters, and China doesn't want us to cause any problems on their doorstep. So, we will not.