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Al-Qaida captures town in Yemen

World Jan. 17, 2012 - 02:34PM JST ( 13 )

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FoxieJan. 17, 2012 - 03:17PM JST

Wow, capturing a WHOLE town? They must have become strong.
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JapanGalJan. 17, 2012 - 03:41PM JST

Everyone deserves a country. Why not let them live there? They can have open boarders for all those oppressed Arabs, Palestinians and others. It might work. If they have their own country, they might give up attacking others that do. What do you think?
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VirtuosoJan. 17, 2012 - 04:07PM JST

The USAF has just acquired a new target for its drones.
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Tom DeMickeJan. 17, 2012 - 06:10PM JST

And so the war in the middle east continues.
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FamilienproblemeJan. 17, 2012 - 06:43PM JST

JapanGal has a point. Either we let these nuts have a country, or we try to kill them until we push them into other countries like what happened in Pakistan and now Yemen.

Better to just let them fester where we know where they are. And Yemen, unlike Afghanistan, is not landlocked. Easy to get a ship close and cruise missle a target if the need arises.
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nandakandamandaJan. 17, 2012 - 06:44PM JST

So there are the regular armed forces, ok, then there are the opposition demonstrators, ok, then there are the various competing tribes who are probably a law to themselves, fine, and finally there is the army of al Qaeda who are stepping in and taking everyone by surprise.
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nandakandamandaJan. 17, 2012 - 06:44PM JST

Now some people must be hoping that all of this will join up with Somalia over the water where something quite similar has been happening, but where the political believers in extremist Islam call themselves al Shabaab.
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CletusJan. 17, 2012 - 06:46PM JST

Another country for the US to invade in the name of the war on terror.
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nandakandamandaJan. 17, 2012 - 06:46PM JST

Will the Red Sea become too dangerous for sea traffic, I wonder?
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yaneeJan. 17, 2012 - 08:36PM JST

JapanGal is on the money! Let 'em have it. Nice to have a place to call home!
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nandakandamandaJan. 17, 2012 - 11:23PM JST

Sure, but let who have the country? al-Qaida must represent less than 5% of the population there, although they would like to take over and control it, not as a home, but as a base for aggressive militancy around the world.
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SerranoJan. 17, 2012 - 11:48PM JST

"Another country for the US to invade in the name of the war on terror"

If the U.S. had taken no military action in the past 50 years, you would not have the freedom to say stuff like "Another country for the US to invade in the name of the war on terror."
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JeremiahWJan. 18, 2012 - 08:45AM JST

Another country for the US to invade in the name of the war on terror

We will invade Yemen, Pakistan, Iran, Algeria, Syria and re-invade Iraq. You is clever.