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[Eurasia Review] Al-Qaida Moving Between Yemen And Saudi Arabia; Flying US Or UK ...: Quoting an interview with the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Brigadier General Ali Hassan al-Shatir, head of the Morale Guidance Directorate in the Yemeni Army said that since the rebels agreed to the Yemen government's conditions several weeks ago, the north-eastern region was finally able to come under the control of the government.

[Libertarian Blog] Afghanistan and Iraq -- combat, but not war - Libertarian Blog ...: I don't think being in Iraq and Afghanistan achieves any of these goals, and although one day in a more friendly world, we can open our borders to free movement among cultures, until that time, we need to use technology to its greatest power to prevent terrorist attacks -- without turning America into a police state.

[Nation & World] Arrest raises concern about radicalized American Muslims ...: "It's a troubling trend, fed by an ideological claim found all over the Web that says the U.S. is at war with Islam," said Rick Nelson, director of the counterterrorism program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and co-author of a new study of the homegrown extremist threat.

[San Francisco Sentinel] San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » IN THE CROSSHAIRS: How al ...: It is meant to convey that insurgents and terrorists being pinpointed and attacked by drones in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and possibly Somalia are coping with this novel threat. Al-Qaida, the Taliban, the so-called Islamic Army in Iraq and Shabab militants in Somalia all claim to have shot down American drones.

[GlobalPost] Yemen | Radical Islam | Terrorism: While his education and intellect provided him with an understanding of and deep insight into the structures of contemporary Islam, the fact that he was born and raised in a culturally degenerated country and in a society, the moral standards of which are merely a shallow "if it doesn't do any harm, it's morally good", bars him from gaining substantial comprehension of a community, which obeys to a far more complex and afterlife-oriented philosophy.

[Creative-i] Creative-i / AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale ...: The tone of the feature was of course one of approval and endorsement of the Pentagon’s rationale for directly intervening in Somalia at a level not seen since 1993 and support for proxy actions last witnessed with the invasion by Ethiopia in 2006. The report began with a description of a military surveillance plane circling over the Somali capital and a quote from the new chief of staff of the nation’s armed forces, General Mohamed Gelle Kahiye: “It’s the Americans.

[freedetainees.org] Interview: Anwar al-Awlaki « freedetainees.org: The American people are the ones who have voted twice for Bush the criminal and elected Obama who is not different from Bush as his first remarks stated that he would not abandon Israel, despite the fact that there were other anti-war candidates in the US elections, but they won very few votes. The American people take part in all its government’s crimes.

[Victory Institute Newsdesk] Newslinks 6-7 Mar 2010 « Victory Institute Newsdesk: Adam Gadahn aka Azzam al-Amriki: “Brother Nidal is the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regime”

[The CenterLine] The End of Violent Sectarianism in Iraq « The CenterLine: The Americans signed the Status of Forces Agreement in 2008, but it was only on June 30, 2009, that the Iraqis began to understand that the Americans are serious, as they watched them live up to their agreements and effectively end the occupation. For the first month, the Iraqis tested the Americans, almost arresting American soldiers at one point, and then, when they were confident that they really were sovereign, they did something strange - they asked the Americans back in, and once again the U.S. military could do whatever it wanted, including going on patrols and conducting arrests.

[the world cares.com] this ain't livin' » Blog Archive » Climate Change and Biodiversity ...: WASHINGTON ”” The arrest in Yemen of a New Jersey man accused of joining Al Qaeda is the latest in an alarming string of cases involving radicalized American Muslims, a trend some experts link to the duration of the wars in Iraq and …

[Reason Magazine Full Feed] Iraq: Mission Accomplished! (Really, Now) - Hit & Run : Reason ...: So, John, again, because you're slow, IFthe Iraq invasion was wrong WHY would itbe wrong to want the aggressor to lose? And how is it that you canbe all sorts of aggressive towards those who would want the UnitedStates to lose an aggressive action, but not be mad at those whoplaced those Soldiers in harm's way for no reason in the firstplace?

[India Current Affairs] India Current Affairs » Blog Archive » YEMEN ON THE BRINK ...: The Washington Post in an editorial stated that the US has already launched a military offensive in Yemen. Clinton said in early January that it was “time for the international community to make it clear to Yemen that there are expectations and conditions for our continuing support for the government”.

[The Common Ills] Peter Moore, the League of Righteous, etc. « The Common Ills: It’s a war of terror on the people, now being expanded by Obama. During the current and largest US offensive of the war, which is going to spread over the next year, innocent civilians are being killed by U.S./NATO bombs, driven from their homes, and innocent Afghans have been imprisoned and tortured in secret US detention centers.

[Colorado Independent » Blog] Polis urges support for withdrawal from Afghanistan « Colorado ...: Yes, there is a very real threat, but the answer is NOT to continue to indefinitely occupy countries where we only breed more sympathy with those who would do us harm. The correct and more important way to leverage American military might to combat this menace is to have targeted and aggressive intelligence gathering and targeted special operations against the terrorists no matter where they are.

[Dandelion Salad] AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia ...: In addition to using such a multinational regional force in Somalia, the U.S. can also deploy it against Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Uganda, Congo and Sudan, and could even employ it against Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Sudan, along with Somalia the only nations on the African continent not to some degree enmeshed in military partnerships with Washington and NATO. (Libya has participated in NATO naval exercises and South Africa has hosted the bloc’s warships.) [11]

[Change.org's War and Peace Blog] H20 or Al Qaeda: Yemen's Gravest Security Threat | War and Peace ...: Helping the Yemeni government to plan and implement alternative water projects and giving citizens financial incentives to adopt less water-dependent farming techniques mark the most significant steps the international community could adopt to combat extremism in Yemen. Flooding the country with billions of gallons of H20 - not pumping in F16s and hellfire cruise missiles - will ultimately help to win the long-term battle for security and stability in the southern Arabian peninsula.

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