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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Bombing Yemen

The same story to two very different degrees. The NYTimes with the official "government officials say" version,
The United States provided firepower, intelligence and other support to the government of Yemen as it carried out raids this week to strike at suspected hide-outs of Al Qaeda within its borders, according to officials familiar with the operations....

The American contributions were intended to help Yemen to prevent Al Qaeda from mounting attacks against American and other foreign targets inside its borders.


Or ABC with the more sensational version,
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....

....and the second target was a location where officials said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned."


Bottom line: We just bombed Yemen with their government's approval.

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