So when did Yemen become the #2 hot spot for

[malaise]

Al Qaeda?

What the fugg is LIEberman on about with this lunatic preemptive action bullshit?
Isn't it very neat that the Nigerian was supposedly in Yemen?
:puke:

sp. add

[Warpy]

1. The Cole bombers were Yemeni.

It was a hotbed for terra 10 years ago.

Lieberman is full of shit, as usual. The central government has been cooperating fully. They don't want those radical wackos there, either.

[DrDan]

3. longer than that - I lived in Saudi 20 years ago - and there were constant warnings

about getting too close to that border

[StarfarerBill]

2. Going for an encirclement of Saudi Arabia, in preparation for an oil grab?

We're already in Iraq to the east, and Egypt and Israel as allies and bases to the west; with the possibility of our ground forces in Yemen...who knows?

[malaise]

9. Well since the new spin is that Al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula

claimed responsibility, yo may be on to something here.

[Recursion]

4. It has been for a long time, Yemen and the horn of Africa

Bin Ladin himself identified it as the most crucial region in his jihad several years ago. Keep in mind that although Yemen is on the Arabian peninsula, because of climate and geography it's more closely connected with Somalia, Eritrea, and Djibouti than with Riyadh or Abu Dhabi.

[ixion]

5. I dated a girl from Yemen for awhile. She was very pretty.

and not at all a terrorist. :)

[bridgit]

6. Well I think that's part of the problem. Right there round Yemen/Somalia in the Gulf of Aden...

and through the strait - a vital point to pinch off a millenias old trade route, that gangs rebels and pirates have already threatened to sink ships into blocking the strait - then into the Red Sea has been vibrant with regional & world intrigue for a long time

If people want to hook-up with al-Q they will


The problem I have is with Dem leadership picking Lieberman for any position as central as Dir HS. I don't need Lieberman trying to explain to America or me, what is important and what is not. After his last round of HCR political prostitution; Lieberman has squandered whole chunks of his own opinions in favor of a group caring even less for the internal securities of every day Americans

Not from a guy able to think Casablanca is a B&W movie and Sinbad just a comedian http://www.al-bab.com/sinbad

[CanonRay]

7. Because there's only 100 Al Quaida in Afghanistan

they've got to go someplace. If we chase them out of Yemen, they'll go to Somalia.

[Cleita]

8. Lieberman has been behaving like the anti-Christ these days.

If Gore had won, he could have been President today. :scared::scared::scared:

[PufPuf23]

10. Camp Lemonnier and AFRICOM needs a purpose?

I got virus warnings when I clicked on the official US Navy Camp Lemonnier web site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Lemonnier