Friday, September 30, 2011

Twapp! Bang! Plop!....

...Zap!
"U.S. officials said Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, was killed in a CIA drone strike on Friday.

U.S. and Yemeni officials said they also believed a second English-speaking Qaeda operative, Samir Khan, was killed at the same time, although this was not 100 percent confirmed. One U.S. official said Khan was editor of "Inspire," a magazine-style publication which had become al Qaeda's principal English-language propaganda vehicle."
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""Awlaki's demise deals a decisive blow to al-Qaeda in Yemen. This was a terrorist who wasn't simply a propagandist, but over the years had become an operational figure who was increasingly focused on planning and carrying out attacks against the United States and our allies," a senior U.S. defense official said. "A very bad man just had a very bad day.""
They're starting to look like flies. The message must be pretty sobering.

Oh, yeah, and George Bush's policy is working. "If you're not with us, you are with the terrorists." Yemen understands what that means.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

"Yemen: 30 al Qaeda suspects die in US airstrikes"

September 30, 2011 7:02 pm  
Blogger Louise said...

Don't know if this is what you took note of in that article, but this bit caught my eye:

"Yemenis walk past vendors selling Qat next to the site of anti-government protestors ..."

Oh my. Such an industrious people.

September 30, 2011 7:16 pm  
Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

I noticed that. From what I've read, qat is a very popular drug in Yemen and east Africa. Qat production is big business in Yemen. Not hard to understand why narcotics are so popular in these desperately poor third world sh*tholes. It beats the reality of their culture and lives that they're apparently unwilling to change by, you know, "Canadian-like" industrious, productive work. :-)

October 02, 2011 10:12 am  
Blogger Louise said...

Oh come on. We gotta leave one thing for the Americans. It's only one.

Besides, reading comments on American right-wing blogs about Canada, I would say there is a whole host of "Canadian-like" memes bouncing around down there and none of them are too nice. It hurts my feewings. After all, we don't all think the same way.

I don't know what's worse - being worshiped by snot-nosed self-righteous American lefties or denigrated by American righties.

Anti-Canadianism is just as common south of the 49th as Anti-Americanism is here. I don't know which got started first, but I suspect it goes a long way back, like maybe to the Revolutionary war or before. Loyalists, after all, headed north.

October 02, 2011 10:43 am  

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