free water and electricity: Al Qaeda embraces civic duties and courts hearts and minds in South Yemen.
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aziz
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thabet
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thabet
A country, blighted by poverty, political strife and a weak corrupt government, being bombed by US drones which target ‘terrorists’ but killed civilians. ‘An army’ of young men ready take up arms for some global cause. Sound familiar?
The Guardian spent two months in the country, travelling to the tribal regions of Abyan and Shabwa, where al-Qaida has set up shop and where suspected US drone attacks have killed scores of civilians and few insurgents. Speaking to jihadis, security officials and tribesmen, it became clear how a combination of government alliances, bribes, broken promises and bungled crackdowns has allowed Islamists to flourish and led to the emergence of the country as a regional hub for al-Qaida.
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Dan
South Yemen should NEVER have reunited with North Yemen. It is hard to believe but South Yemen was a far more progressive place than it is now.
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Tec15
If you consider a corrupt Communist party fighting it’s internal politics literally with machine guns, executions of former overthrown leaders, collectivized fishing, an East German trained secret police, a safe haven for Marxist Euro terrorists, an anemic economy, mass emigration etc etc to be progressive….
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thabet
‘Al-Qaida in Yemen’:
Standing in the middle of the chaos is one of the jihadi gunmen for whom the town has become famous. Thin, short, with a well-groomed beard and shoulder-length hair, he is dressed in the Afghan style: shalwar kameez, camouflage vest and an old Kalashnikov. He is either a bandit imposing a protection racket on the merchants or a rebel protecting them from the corrupt regime – and most probably a bit of both.
Note the following quote:
“I agree with George Bush in one thing,” he said, pulling at his beard. “He gave us a really accurate wisdom: you are either with us or against us, you are either with Islam or with the crusaders. I tell the Muslim clerics in the whole world you are either with the flag of the mujahideen and God is great or you are with the flag of the cross … there is no other option.”
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abunoor
According to Marc Ambinder, the Obama Administration will send Mohammed Odaini back to Yemen, honoring the court ruling in which he won his habeas corpus petition, and in which the Obama Administration to the eternal shame of all involved in the case, argued that Odaini was being lawfully held, an argument which they knew to be false. They also knew at the time and continue to know that Odaini was no threat to anyone, and as Ambinder notes, would not have sent Odaini back to Yemen, regardless of the decisions of any courts, if the CIA and DIA had not signed off on this.
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abunoor
Amnesty International has released photographic evidence that Obama and his military used cluster bombs in the missiles they fired into a Yemeni village last December, killing 52 people including 21 children and 14 women.
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shams
when i see your petty hatred for Obama on display, Abu, it makes me want Sarah Palin to win, just so you could experience the christofascist rule of WEC retards, and get to see the US and Israel bomb the shit out of the Shi’a in Iran.
I guess you’re ok wid dat…bein’ a sunni and all.-
midwinterspring
When I see comments like this, it also makes me want Sarah Palin to win, so when she commits the exact same crimes as Obama liberals like you will do something useful for once and stand up against it.
The funny, and incredibly depressing thing, is that you are going to be saying the same thing when America and Israel do actually attack Iran, so long as your great bringer of hope and change happens to be in the White House at the time. Because obviously Obama must have some good reason for doing everything he does.
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shams
America won’t attack Iran as long as Obama is in the WH, but America would certainly be forced to defend Israel if Israel attacks Iran. Obama seems to be trying to neutralize Israel on that front.
I suppose you and Abu think Obama should STERNLY SCOLD the heck out of Israel.
Like scolding works with crazy people.
KVS said it best….Doesn’t this incident make it more likely that Israel will go rogue on Iran? Humiliation, isolation, stupidity, volatility, genuine domestic fear and loathing, international gridlock, a ticking clock, and a feeling that “even my friends don’t understand me anymore.” Doesn’t this lead to Netanyahu et al. telling themselves that it’s now or never, both existentially (for Israel) and politically (for them)?
Just what do you think Israel will do if it begins to seem America is disengaging from Israel?
My guess is hit a nuke enrichment site in Iran while they still can force America in on their side.
This is so bleeding obvious.
AND like I said….WE got our change. America elected a black man president after a half century of the southern strategy and the tyranny of the stupid.
You want WORLD change?
lawl, go whine to big white christian bwana.
that is going to take a while to unwind.
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abunoor
I guess Obama is like some kind of Super-Khidr…we should watch him murder our mothers and our children in front of us and we should applaud and say Thank you and something about 12 dimensional chess…is that it?
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abunoor
Pointing out the killing of children is petty hatred? Really don’t get it..AT ALL
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shams
you cannot change military culture without replacing the leadership.
nearly 2 years in, the repubs are still stonewalling 75% of Obamas appointments.
You think Obama is a “liberal”?
He is a machiavellian pragmatist that inherited two malignant cesspools, the legacy of America’s Israeli style psychotic break post 911.
He made a bargain with the devil (McChrystal and the mil commanders).
He gave them what they asked for, but for only 3 years.
Then we can gtfo.
That is what he said when he was running for office, that he would listen to the mil-commanders.And its 11D chess. 11D is one of the flavors of string theory.
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aziz
generally, Commaders in Chief dont sign off personally on every detail of every sortie, including what weapons to load on the aircraft.
If this is true, its a colassol failure of not just Obama’s high-level strategic outlook for Afghanistan but also a low-level failure of Gen McChrystal’s own assessment.
I know that your view of Obama and the US military, Abu Noor, basically is a mirror image of shams’. Youre both wrong. the military is like any other gigantic red tap organization and it does have inertia. The question is, how will Obama react to this? (and he wont if the military tries to deny it, because it wont propagate to him as an issue. Being President means being essentially and functionally blind to 99% of the things that the government does.)
IF someone can challenge McChrstal on this, then theres a chance it can go further. And then, it matters what the reaction from us is too.f we grab the righteousness spoon, we miss an opportunity to make this a claer case for advocating the abolishment of not just cluster munitions but aerial bombing and collateral damage (as I have argued at my blog).
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shams
Abu Muqawama is on board.
He counts, since he’s CNAS.
And im not wrong.
Obama gave McChrystal what he ax for in return for the 3 year timetable.
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shams
do you understand the systems analysis principle of graceful degradation?
Obama is gracefully degrading America out the SuperAwesome Judeo-xian World Police.
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thabet
An official of the Yemeni opposition party says attempts to ban child marriage are part of a ‘Western agenda’.
The official, Sheik Mohammed Hamzi, is quoted as saying:
“I am against the child marriage law because it restrains the freedom of others. When a certain age [for marriage] is set, it violates the rights of others. For example, imagine a young man of 13 or 14 years of age who wants to have sex. … This is a violation of his rights…”
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razib, murtad fitri
i guess there is a libertarian streak in yemen! all those guns should have made you suspicious….
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AA
The Yemenization of Theo
Do the Yemeni newspaper’s revelation make Padnos uneasy? “Slightly. Yes,” he says with a nervous chuckle on a recent phone interview from Paris. “But not totally. I want to have a civilized debate with these [Salafists]. I feel that what they’re doing is not correct, and it’s bad.”
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/100308/al-qaeda-yemen-islam-convert
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johnpi
In the wake of threats by al Shabaab to send fighters to Yemen to assist Al Qaeda there, the Yemeni government is cracking down on Somali refugees and keeping them locked in camps.
This follows reports earlier this week in Kenya that authorities there swept through Somali neighborhoods and rounded people up by the hundreds after protests on behalf of Abdullah al Faisal.
Apparently, Somali refugees are being unfairly tainted with the reputation of al Shabaab and viewed more widely in Africa with suspicion and mistrust. Consequently, they are being targeted for greater persecution.
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johnpi
One of the bloggers at Waq al-Waq has been testifying at a US Senate hearing about Yemen. His co-blogger has been live-blogging it. A sample:
Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism US state dept: we have very specific conditions on the end use of whatever [military aid] we give them [Yemen], with mechanisms to check how they do so. I like this, and it seems that we learned from Musharraf. If US bombs or bullets are used against the Huthis or in the south, we might as well just depose Salih ourselves and say “have at it, Qaeda!”
To be clear, that would be a bad idea.
No doubt.
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johnpi
Some women of southern Yemen remember the ‘good old days’ of the “proletarian bonapartist (Stalinist) state” before Islamic-militant-aligned north Yemen annexed the south.
Afrah Ali Said often recalls the days when she could go out with her family in just a shirt and trousers to enjoy a cool evening breeze on Aden’s beaches.
That was two decades ago. She lived in what was then the socialist People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen. Many women’s rights guaranteed by that southern state have been chipped away since it merged with the more conservative tribal north in 1990.
“It was such a beautiful time. Now I mostly stay at home. If I go out I have to cover my hair and dress in an abaya,” Said, a journalist, said, tugging angrily at her shapeless black robe.
The changes have been particularly stark in southern Yemen given the communist/socialist back story:
In contrast to the rest of the Arabian peninsula, the former socialist south Yemen enforced many reforms for women. Girls went to mixed schools with boys, women were encouraged to work and leave the headscarf at home, while polygamy was banned.
But the newly unified government in Sanaa soon moved in the opposite direction, introducing a family law that favors men, said Wafa Abdulfatah Ismail, who teaches law at Aden University.
“In the south, a husband could file divorce only for defined reasons such as disease,” said Ismail, one of the few local women who refuse to wear a headscarf, defying harassment.
“Now he can get a divorce without even telling his wife.”
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johnpi
Report: New York ex-cons who traveled to Yemen pose ‘significant threat.’
As many as three dozen criminals who converted to Islam in American prisons have moved to Yemen where they could pose a “significant threat” to attack the U.S., according to a report on al Qaeda from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be released Wednesday.
“The group seeks to recruit American citizens to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States,” said Sen. John Kerry, D.-Mass., the committee chairman.
The Senate report said that while the ex-convicts “ostensibly” moved to Yemen to study Arabic, U.S. diplomats and law enforcement officials in Yemen “feared that these Americans were radicalized in prison and traveled to Yemen for training.”
And some blonds have finally converted to Islam, so sit up and take notice:
Also of concern to U.S. officials, the Senate staff found, is a group of “nearly 10 non-Yemeni Americans who traveled to Yemen, converted to Islam, became fundamentalists and married Yemeni women so they could remain in the country.”
An American official described them as “blond-haired, blue eyed-types” who fit the profile of Americans who al Qaeda has sought to recruit for terror missions.
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abunoor
It is impossible to know for sure without knowing who the individuals are,but the story reads as if it is purely speculative fantasy. There are some people who used to be in prison who are in Yemen and some people who are “blond haired blue eyed types” (I guess this is code for white) and we all know Yemen has Al-Qaeda and prisons are places for radical recruitment that give too much religious freedom to those inmates (says a former prison official who’s selling a book). None of the speculations and general fear mongering seem to actually relate specifically to each other.
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bingregory
Not just white people, but REAL white people! Aryans! Islam is spreading to the Aryans, hold on to your socks!
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thabet
Islamonazism!
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abunoor
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johnpi
Yemen in war with al Qaeda, urges citizens to help.
Yemen declared open war on al Qaeda on Thursday and warned its citizens against aiding the global militant group, but Islamist clerics threatened jihad if foreign military forces intervene.
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johnpi
Marxism Today reports on the southern insurrection in Yemen. No, seriously.
The old proletarian bonapartist (Stalinist) state of PDRY collapsed after the Soviet Union withdrew its support in 1989 and entered into a “union” with the reactionary, tribal state in the north. In reality, this was an annexation of the south on the part of North Yemen. The victors carried out counter-revolutionary measures in all fields of society, including in agriculture. The North took over nationalized land in the south, which was given to landlords and sultans. Tribalism, which was pushed back after the revolution, came back in full force. It was as if the clock turned back centuries. In this process the reactionary northern regime, backed by US imperialism and the other reactionary regimes in the region, unleashed the dark forces of fundamentalism as a tool to destroy the social gains of the former planned economy in the south.
The elections that followed in 1993 reinforced the north-south division. Electors in the north voted for an Islamist party, Islah, and Saleh’s General People’s Congress (GPC). In the south they elected Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) candidates. In April-June 1994, the north-south civil war ended in southern defeat. Jihadis were enlisted by the north to fight the “socialist” south. After the war, the authorities in Sana’a purged the state apparatus and replaced southerners with northerners. The oil revenue from the south went into the pockets of a small minority in the north.
‘Jihadis were enlisted to fight socialists’ by the US-backed government. That always works out well for the US…
…the fighting in the north between Houthi rebels, as well as the fight between tribal jihadists (ex-mujahideen who used to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and later fought against the “socialist” PDRY) and the government forces, reflects the fact that the regime has entered into conflict with the very same social forces that it used to lean on in order to crush the left wing.
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abunoor
Interesting interview with Anwar al-Awlaki’s father on CNN.
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aziz
Al-Awlaki does concede his son’s views did seem more radical after he spent time in a Yemeni prison from 2006 to 2007 for suspected ties to terrorism. He was released for lack of evidence.
“They put him in jail for 18 months and I detected a change after he got out of prison, he began to get away from the mainstream,” al-Awlaki said.
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johnpi
Yemeni cleric cautious about new relationship with US.
It doesn’t seem to me like it’s an off-the-wall reservation to have given everything else going on in the world, but Zindani has a bad reputation so it’s easy to change the subject to Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda…
Yemen’s most influential Islamic cleric, considered an al-Qaida-linked terrorist by the United States, warned Monday that the U.S.-backed fight against the terror group could lead to “foreign occupation” of the country.
Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani’s comments illustrate the pressure Yemen’s government is under to limit the U.S. role here even as Washington ramps up counterterrorism aid and training to help combat al-Qaida’s offshoot in the country.
Al-Zindani is emblematic of how — unlike in Iraq and Afghanistan, whose governments are bitter enemies of al-Qaida — Yemen’s beleaguered regime has built alliances with Islamic extremists to hold onto power. Some have al-Qaida connections, complicating the fight.
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johnpi
The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger plane on Christmas met in a remote mountainous area of Yemen with regional al-Qaida leaders, possibly including a radical American cleric who was also in contact with the alleged Fort Hood shooter, Yemen’s deputy prime minister said Thursday.
However, Rashad al-Alimi insisted that 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was recruited by al-Qaida in Britain, before he arrived in Yemen last summer, and that he obtained the explosives used in the failed attack after he left Yemen.
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johnpi
Top ten humanitarian crisis in the world in 2009 include several countries that are frequent topics here at TI: Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan.
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johnpi
US military readying to launch a retaliatory strike for Christmas Day suicide attack on passenger jet, if Obama orders one.
The US also now has an agreement with the Yemeni government that it can fly cruise missiles, fighter jets and unmanned drones anywhere over the country with the consent of the government.
Some details remain to be worked out:
One of the officials said Yemen has not yet consented to the type of special forces helicopter-borne air assault that would put U.S. commandos on the ground with the mission of capturing suspects for further interrogation.
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johnpi
Likely casualty of air plot: Obama’s Guantanamo plans.
The foiled Christmas Day plot to blow up a jetliner over Detroit has thrown up a major roadblock to President Barack Obama’s pledge to close the prison camps at Guantanamo.
Cascading reports that the alleged would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had trained in Yemen, and that the plot was hatched by two former Guantanamo detainees, have even supporters of emptying the prison predicting a new impediment to their effort.
Nearly half of the 198 captives at Guantánamo are citizens of Yemen — also the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden — just south of Saudi Arabia.
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johnpi
The US has opened up a “third front” against Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Citing an unnamed former top CIA official, the newspaper said that a year ago the Central Intelligence Agency sent many field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country.
At the same time, some of the most secretive special operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics, the report said.
The Pentagon will be spending more than 70 million dollars over the next 18 months, and using teams of special forces, to train and equip Yemeni military, Interior Ministry and coast guard forces, more than doubling previous military aid levels, the paper noted.
US blogger volunteers for the soon-to-be-opened British front in the GWOT.
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johnpi
Interesting fact: The second in command of the Yemen Al Qaeda group, Sa’eed al-Shihri, is a former Guantanamo detainee who has also been through the much-vaunted Saudi rehabilitation program.
His is an embarrassment to the Saudi government, which was antagonized that his return to the Al Qaeda fold tarnished the record of its rehabilitation program that has otherwise had a lot of success with reforming extremist deviance.
He is also related to two of the 9/11 hijackers that were on Flight 11 with Mohammad Atta that struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, according to this website.
Back in January al-Shihri’s father said:
The father of ex-Gitmo detainee Sa’eed Al-Shihri who has seemingly surfaced in Yemen as a senior Al-Qaeda operative despite having had undergone a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia, says his son “is a deviant member of society who must be removed.”
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thabet
I think I’ll volunteer for the British campaign. I’m fond of Guinness.
I’m sure the Irish will be pleased at having their most famous export labelled a “British” product!
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johnpi
The UK tabloid The Sun reports that there are 25 “British-born Muslims” in Yemen where they are “plotting to blow up airliners.”
The British extremists in Yemen are in their early 20s and from Bradford, Luton and Leytonstone, East London.
They are “training” in “five groups” the Sun alleges.
Special Branch monitored them as they flew to Yemen, in the Middle East, from British airports in the spring and summer.
The Sun cites a “Scotland Yard source.” Let’s hope it’s a better one than Glen Jenvey and Dominic Wightman, who have also been Sun sources.
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johnpi
Anwar al Awlaki was at the meeting in Yemen that was attacked on Thursday but he was not harmed, reports The Long War Journal.
Intelligence officials said he was there to provide the religious justification for attacks against Yemeni and US targets in response to Dec. 17 airstrikes against al Qaeda in Abyan and Sana’a.
One TI post about Awlaki that has gotten a lot of hits is ‘The Salafi refutation of Anwar al-Awlaki,‘ where, from memory, he is denounced by a prominent Saudi Arabian shaykh as a licenser of vigilantes and hirabah, which seems to be topical to Awlaki’s purpose at the meeting.
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johnpi
ABC News is reporting – surprise! surprise! – that the man who tried to blow up a US bound passenger jet today is an engineering student at University College of London. Please hold your ‘Muslim engineer’ jokes until the end of the blog post.
He also said he received the explosive device in Yemen, along with instructions on how to use it. The device was described as a packet of explosive powder strapped to his leg and a syringe of chemicals that would cause the explosion when mixed with the powder.
He was flying from Nigeria to the United States for a religious ceremony, according to his entry visa, which was issued June 16, 2008 and was good until June 12, 2010.
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johnpi
The Amazing powers of free associative thought and osmosis.
Muslim-bashing right-wing blogs are making much of the fact that the man had a visa to attend a “religious ceremony.”
By osmosis there is an assumption being made that this is a reference to a ‘wedding,’ and that terrorists have used ‘wedding’ as a code word before for terrorist attacks (David Headley), and that therefore authorities should be exceedingly suspicious of Muslims trying to get a visa to the US to attend a wedding.
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johnpi
CNN is reporting that the guy was screaming about Afghanistan before being subdued.
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johnpi
The Asia Times excellent correspondent Syed Saleem Shahzad, who recently had a face-to-face interview with Ilyas Kashmiri proving that he was still alive after the Americans announced him dead in a drone attack, has another good feature article with a lot of new information about Al Qaeda and its plans to expand in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
Remember when Lashkar e Taiba was primarily a Kashmiri independence group before being transformed into a global jihad group? Al Qaeda wants to effect the same transformation elsewhere with local resistance movements – that is, colonize indigenous movements with local nationalist grievances and transform them into global jihad/global caliphate fighters.
…al-Qaeda sources have told Asia Times Online, al-Qaeda has re-established itself in Somalia and Yemen. From Somalia, the sources say, al-Qaeda plans to further disrupt trade routes around the Horn of Africa, while from Yemen, al-Qaeda aims to make a comeback in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia and beyond. The overall goal is to take control of all Muslim resistance movements in the region, very much on the lines of al-Qaeda’s South Asian pattern.
There’s also new information about the extent to which Ilyas Kashmiri is now an al Qaeda military leader.
In South Asia, al-Qaeda’s chief of the Lashkar al-Zil (Shadow Army), Ilyas Kashmiri, sits in Afghanistan orchestrating targets, including in India. (Lashkar al-Zil is an alliance of several Pakistani, Afghan, Uzbek, Iraqi and al-Qaeda groups that carry out operations under the al-Qaeda banner.)
Kashmiri is also cited as one of two al Qaeda leaders who worked on the ground in Somalia establishing the al Shabaab militia.
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johnpi
Sometimes attempted takeovers of local indigenous movements blow up in their faces, as with Hamas.
Actually, this may be a better link to explain the Hamas/Al Qaeda fallout.
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johnpi
Anwar al Awlaki died in US airstrike: Yemeni official.
A radical Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to a gunman who killed 13 people at a U.S. Army base is believed to have died in a Yemen airstrike on al Qaeda militants, a security official said on Thursday.
“Anwar al Awlaki is suspected to be dead (in the air raid),” said the Yemeni official, who asked not to be identified. Yemen said 30 militants were killed in the strike in the eastern province of Shabwa.
comments closed. feeding the trolls only radicalizes them – Admin
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johnpi
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Abu Noor Al-Irlandee
CBS is saying that the rumor of Awlaki’s death is false.
Yemen (ChattahBox) – After an air strike against a Yemeni village was claimed to have killed an estimated 30 militants, including high ranking al Qaeda officials, some are saying that the cleric who advised Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan (shown left) has been killed. But others aren’t sure.
Reuters originally reported that Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in the strike, but CBS has said that this report is false.
According to a number of coursed, Awlaki is not living in the area where the attack occurred, which is believed to be Rafad, in eastern Shabwa.By the way, here’s a blogger from earlier this month about why the U.S. always kills 30 “militants” at a time.
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pi.info
Thanks for the update.
Google is ranking us number 2 or 3 on several versions of the search term “Anwar al Awlaki killed” or “Anwar al Awlaki died,” so it’s driving alot of traffic to TI at the moment.
And that piece about the big round number 30 is priceless. Thanks for that…
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thabet
A 2003 Salon article on the same theme. “The magic number was 30.”
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Buzz
Waste of a perfectly good hellfire missile.
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Sameer
Washington Post casts doubt on this story as well.
Further this statement by his father is interesting:
The cleric’s father, former Yemeni minister of agriculture Nasser al-Aulaqi, said his son was living in the home of an uncle and, he believed, he had left that residence about two months ago. The uncle’s house is more than 40 miles from Rafadh, said the elder Aulaqi in a rare interview. But he said he did not know whether the uncle’s house was destroyed.
“If the American government helped in attacking one of [its own] citizens, this is illegal,” said Aulaqi, his voice cracking. “Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and he’s going to get a trial. My son has killed nobody. He should face trial if he’s done something wrong.”
“If Obama wants to kill my son, this is wrong,” he added
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heartlandmuslimah
The Love Of A Father For His Son Is Heartbreaking.
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Abu Noor Al-Irlandee
AP is also quoting friends and relatives as saying that al-Awlaki is still alive.
Friends and relatives of a U.S.-born Yemeni radical cleric say he is alive and well following reports he may have been killed in a Yemeni airstrike against suspected al-Qaida hideouts.
The government said at least 30 militants, possibly including Anwar al-Awlaki, were killed in the airstrike in the remote Shabwa region.
But on Friday, a friend of the cleric, Abu Bakr al-Awlaki, said he was not among those killed. He refused to say if the cleric was attending the meeting targeted by Yemeni airplanes on Thursday. The strikes were carried out with U.S. and Saudi intelligence help.
The cleric’s brother, who only agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, said he also received assurances that his older sibling is still alive.
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Vendetta
Yeah whatever, heartlandmuslimah. This guy was a terrorist jihadist, and if he is confirmed to be killed, I’ll be very happy and full of joy that yet another Islamist jihadist scumbag has been removed from this planet for good.
Of course, if we don’t hear from him for a while, we could just assume he died anyway.
The free world is doing a great job of fighting these bastards. God bless the USA, god bless.
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Heartlandmuslimah
Vendetta What Kind Of God Do You Worship That Fills Your Heart With Such Venim? I Only Said That His Fathers Words Were Moving. If You Arent A Parent You Wont Get It
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Vendetta
I’m a deist, Heartlandmuslimah. I am not taken in by your mythology, or aroused by your brothers and sisters praising jihadists like this pig Anwar al Awlaki, who encouraged the fort hood shooter and praised the Detroit underwear bomber.
My question is, what kind of heart does your ‘Ummah’ possess? To praise a man like this? To kill thousands of innocent people every year?” Point the finger at yourself, not me, sunshine.
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PimpDaddySatan
Just curious how that idiots dick is doing? I’m sure it had to hurt when he set it on fire…lmao… Muslim Extremist are some really dumb motherfuckers! And what idiot commits a crime, aka Al Gay Fucks… and take credit for it? Thats just stupid, couldn’t you blame the Russians or something? Are you really that dumb, you want a few more air strikes and missles shot your way? And why do you dumbshits blow yourselves up to get virgins in a pretend next life? You can get virgins now, if you put as much effort into it as you do toying around with your ineffective bombs!!! I guess I’ll never understand why people buy into and believe so strongly in all your hokey religions! Your all a bunch of idiots, but towel heads and camel jockeys have got to be the worst!
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Shams al-Nahar
Vendetta and Pimp…..Big White Christian Bwana sowed these dragons teeth.
The bitter harvest has only just begun.
MENA is a Reaver Factory with an infinite supply of spare parts….cant win hearts and minds when the hearts and minds of extended kin groups are being splattered over the landscape.
Welcome to the Graveyard of Empires…. 1559 served….and counting.
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Anthony
Shams al-Nahar why do you bring race into the discussion? Does your religion make you a racist? Or you just jealous of white people?
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PimpDaddySatan
I’m not christian, catholic, jewish, or any other… They’re all pretty pathetic, but muslims have got to be the worst! I don’t see christians strapping bombs to women and having them enter public arenas to blow up innocent people!
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Dan
Why would they need to when they have F-16′s, moron?
Besides, Christians often gun down doctors who perform abortions…and sites like FreeRepublic and HotAir express praise for those actions. Why not start there numbnuts?
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Vendetta
Shams al-Nahar, it’s people like you who make Muslims look bad. You jihadist scum are everywhere. Don’t worry tho, we take comfort in knowing that on our worst day, we are better than you Muslims on your best day
You wonder why Muslims are attacked all the time, well it’s in your post. We would leave you alone if you left the rest of the world alone. But noooo, you gotta have your 72 virgins and commit your jihad all on innocent people. So we slaughter you like pigs
1,366,359 Muslims served… and counting.
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Dan
So does this mean you will withdraw entirely from the Middle East and South Asia then? Does this mean you will stop funding corrupt dictators in the regions? Put up or shut up, assclown.
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Vendetta
Does this mean you will stop getting your women to strap suicide vests and bombs on, and then run pathetically into a marketplace, exploding herself and dozens of people, mostly innocent women and children, with her??
Put up or shut up, you insignificant flea.
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No irony here.
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Dan
Vendetta, where do you live? If you are as tough as you portray yourself to be on here, you wouldn’t have a problem posting up your contact information. If you want, I could direct you to a good buddy of mine who is not only a practicing Muslim, but is trained in mixed martial arts if you are serious about beating a “muzzie” down. Come on you chickenhawk, put your money where your mouth is.
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BK
It’s allllllllways Waco….
Ex-mistress says TX minister admitted killing wife
By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Writer
1 hr 21 mins agoWACO, Texas – The state rested its case Tuesday in the murder trial of a Texas minister whose ex-mistress testified that he drugged his wife, handcuffed her to the bed under the guise of spicing up their marriage, then smothered her with a pillow until she died.
Vanessa Bulls said Matt Baker, then a Baptist preacher, had talked about killing his wife and making it look like a suicide. His wife, Kari Baker, had previously attempted suicide, Bulls said.
Bulls said she never reported his plans or the murder to authorities because she was afraid of exposing the affair that she said began about two months before Kari Baker’s 2006 death. Bulls, 27, also said she was afraid of being arrested for not stopping Baker.
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Vendetta
Rest in piss!
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Unserscore
23. And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face) on that Day will man remember but how will that remembrance profit him?
24. He will say: “Ah! would that I had sent forth (Good Deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life.”
25. For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
Surah Fajr
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shams
bi la kayfa, Brother.
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Um ABdurRahman
They believe they are in the majority. Americans believe in justice and i think you current government has sold your Country out for bucks. Its not about freedom or anything anymore its about ruling the world with dictatorship. If you love your country then you should really get worried about your own freedoms that they are taking away from the people of America. Police state is in hand. Never lived in one? YOu will in time experience it for yourself. If you knew history and Jesus you would realise that islam is the continuation of the same message to worship only one god. You use jihad as an excuse to ignore the fact God is the creator of all that exists and that eveyone will meet his end. Most of those who become muslim are women and they are sick of being a slave for male fantasies and they wish to serve their Creator and think about deeper issues, such as life and the Universe and everything and not the latest designe wear or film. LIfe is deep and each persons life is made by Allah. So we see each life as a belonging to Him. No blob of mud can make anything by itself. The fact there is a creation proves there is a creator. I used to be athiest but Allah opened my heart to the truth and now i can be a better daughter to my non muslim family. I thank Allah that He took me out of a miserable life, despite having all i wanted. It is your nature to worship only one god. If you dont think so, maybe God doesnt love you. But if you wanted to know the truth of life, then ask God to show you the truth.
Too easy to insult islam or muslims on line. Reminds me of school.
But a truthful one is one who needs not to insult.
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johnpi
The US launched two cruise missile attacks yesterday against Al Qaeda targets in Yemen: ABC News.
So far, only ABC News is reporting it. I suspect the fact that it is a major holiday weekend in the US providing distraction for the larger population – and with a lot of reporters going on vacation – may have had something to do with the timing.
On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.
One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials said “an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned.”
The Yemen attacks by the U.S. military represent a major escalation of the Obama administration’s campaign against al Qaeda.
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johnpi
AP: ‘Yemeni authorities are hunting for Anwar al-Awlaki.’
A radical American imam who communicated with the Fort Hood shooting suspect and called him a hero was once arrested in Yemen on suspicion of giving religious approval to militants to conduct kidnappings. Yemeni authorities are now hunting for Anwar al-Awlaki to determine whether he has al-Qaida ties.
….But authorities’ suspicions over al-Awlaki were raised again several months after his release because he stopped checking in regularly with security officials as required under his release agreement, the officials said. Also, months later, another member of the group arrested with al-Awlaki left Yemen and was arrested in Syria on terrorism charges.
In response, al-Awlaki was put on a wanted list on suspicion of possible al-Qaida links, the Interior Ministry official said.
He and the counterterrorism officials said al-Awlaki is believed to be hiding in Yemen’s Shabwa or Mareb provinces, which along with Jof province make up the so-called “triangle of evil” because of a heavy presence of al-Qaida militants. Fighters from the terror organization have been increasingly entering Yemen and finding refuge among tribes disgruntled with the central government.
(Via)
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aziz
eeeenteresting…. but i wonder how much of his reknown is self-manufactured have you seen his website? its too slick to be Al Qaeda.
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johnpi
I get the feeling that the days when English-speaking Muslims could turn on the computer and casually log on to al-Awlaki’s blog are gone for good…
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abunoor
The blog is down now, but has posted a message saying it will be “back to normal in a few days time.”
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aziz
Qat is literally bleeding Yemen dry.
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johnpi
Oh dear…
Even wastewater treatment has proved difficult in Yemen. The plants have been managed poorly, and some clerics have declared the reuse of wastewater to be a violation of Islamic principles.
Once again the people who should be leading us out of the environmental crisis are instead making matters worse. Better that large segments of the Muslim population should die fighting each other in water wars than that the hyper-puritanical tendency should be restrained.
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willow
The city from which the reporter filed his story is called Jahiliya. Poetic irony in action!
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shams
Willow, translating jahilyya as “ignorance” is sillie orientalism.
Jahilyya is based on the root jahl, or “the uncontrollable impetuous jumping of an unschooled young horse”.
The origins of arabic are filled with organic metaphors based on the cultural authorities of the time….the bedouin na’qaat or warrior-poets.
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Mr Moo
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aziz
Is there some way we can get a random one of your lolcats to display on the sidebar or something? Do you have a dedicated RSS feed for em? Too awesome not to share
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Arwi, and 
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aziz 7:06 am on May 1, 2012 Permalink |
of course, it isn’t doing them much good: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/01/poll-many-muslims-in-mideast-pakistan-have-poor-view-of-al-qaeda/
thabet 4:47 pm on May 1, 2012 Permalink |
Also according to Pew, al-Q seems about as popular in the regions polled as the US…
That should tell you something.
aziz 6:33 am on May 2, 2012 Permalink |
not really. Love/hate of the US is basically irrelevant – its driven by perception towards the IP conflict, towards imperial legacies, western history, and of course local islamist propaganda. AlQ’s declining popularity is relevant because it is declining – as purveyors of the propaanda themselves, its quite significant that they have squandered all their good will. Their claim to legitimacy was accepted at face value when it was theoretical, but now that people have had a chance to tase their actual rule they are repulsed.
Arwi 9:22 am on May 2, 2012 Permalink |
Love/hate of the US is driven by “perceptions” of the IP conflict, imperial legacies, western history and Islamist propaganda. So drones killing civilians, tellig lies to make war on Iraq, shock and awe, Guantanamo, torture in Abu Ghraib, the presence of US troops,, etc. are not factors.
Strange that attitudes towards the US are driven by “perceptions” rather than experiences, when any number of places in West Asia have experienced US actions directly.
aziz 7:13 am on May 3, 2012 Permalink
I didnt say that attitudes were driven by perceptions of the US, I said they were driven by perceptions of the IP conflict.
I dont think its accurate to lump all US actions into one category either. Afghans and Iraqis alike will are not unanimous in their judgement of our actions there (as evidenced by eth very real angst in both places amongst the public about our impending withdrawal).
Arwi 9:24 am on May 2, 2012 Permalink |
The popularity of Islamist groups has been in based in the provision of social services. The strange thing to me is that the US doesn’t draw the support away by providing better services. The aftermath of the Pakistani earthquake was an ideal opportunity.
aziz 7:15 am on May 3, 2012 Permalink |
I dont think its that simple. Providing “services” isnt as easy as dropping off a load of supplies here and there – it requires building an infrastructure and then active governance. As much as lefty critics compllain about the cost of war, the cost of such services would be massively greater (especially because unlike soldiers, the civilian workforce required would be much more vulnerable and tempting an effective a target).