teapartysamurai
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U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes
The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.
The acceleration of the American campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the government in Sana, a United States ally, struggling to cling to power. Yemeni troops that had been battling militants linked to Al Qaeda in the south have been pulled back to the capital, and American officials see the strikes as one of the few options to keep the militants from consolidating power.
On Friday, American jets killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, a midlevel Qaeda operative, and several other militant suspects in a strike in southern Yemen. According to witnesses, four civilians were also killed in the airstrike. Weeks earlier, drone aircraft fired missiles aimed at Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric who the United States government has tried to kill for more than a year. Mr. Awlaki survived.
The recent operations come after a nearly year-long pause in American airstrikes, which were halted amid concerns that poor intelligence had led to bungled missions and civilian deaths that were undercutting the goals of the secret campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?_r=1&hp
I thought you libs were all against this War on Terror!
You sure had a fit under Bush.
You whined about how much money it cost, despite the fact Obama spent more on the Stimulus in 4 months than Bush did in seven years on the War on Terror.
But, for some "strange" reasons, you guys are silent on Obama. In FACT, you are all happy he got Bin Laden.
You guys sure you have your talking points straight??
Are you against the War or aren't you?
It couldn't be we were right and you phony liberals were only against the war for political reasons???????????
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo, how could that be!!!!!
Liberals are far too "noble" to do that . . . . . .
Yeah!