Given Yemen's track record of shady dealings with jihadists, it seems reasonable to expect another, well, minimalist response (at best) on their part. "US 'works closely' with Yemeni government on rocket attack," from Agence France-Presse:
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday it was "working closely" with the Yemeni government on a rocket attack that targeted a compound in Sanaa where US oil experts were reportedly housed.
"We are working quite well and quite closely with the Yemeni government on it," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters when asked for details of the attack.
He then referred journalists to a message available to Americans living in Yemen via the US embassy, which said it had reports that the area of the Al-Hadda Compound in southwestern Sanaa was targeted by three explosive rounds.
Two of them exploded inside the compound and one outside, but there "have been no reports of injuries," according to the so-called warden message on the embassy website.
"The embassy advises all US citizens to exercise caution in this area of the city, and will report any further information that may become available," it said.
In Sanaa, a security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack late on Sunday on villas housing US oil experts in the capital.
The source said police had arrested seven people in connection with the attack, adding that three people had fired the rockets from a car on the edge of the neighbourhood where the villas are located.
Residents told AFP three rockets struck near the residences of US employees of the Yemen-owned Safer oil company, formerly known as Hunt Oil.
The attack on the villas, next to a residential complex for other Westerners, came two days after the arrest in Sanaa of an Al-Qaeda operative, Abdullah al-Rimi, according to the security source.
Sunday's was the latest attack in the impoverished state, which has been plagued by Al-Qaeda-linked violence.
Marisol, is there a preposition missing in the title of this article: "...how far is it getting [with] them"?
Either way, please feel free to delete this posting. Thanks.
Muslims primp and posture and love to portray themselves as brotherly, brave, great, and powerful, but they are apparently so fragile and servile that they cannot bear to ever have the truth told about them, and they fear to stand by their convictions.
While I utterly deplore the constant absurdities flowing from our State Department, Military, and political establishment about the wonderfulness of the"cooperation" and "help" received from terror states like Yemen, Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan, this absurd charade comes about, no doubt, because those American entities are fully aware of the incapacity of their Muslim hosts to listen to criticism, or hear the truth about how despicable and teacherous and unsatisfactory they are in every way. By playing this pathetic charade, we extract as much "cooperation" as can ever be expected from such gutter people.
Any self respecting human could not endure to play the double game, but Muslims play it always. Rather than acting on their visceral hatred and refusing to "cooperate", they behave like servile conniving dogs and pretend to cooperate while doing the absolute minimum.
A self respecting human would declare his intentions, and let the chips fall where they may. But our "moderate" Muslim "allies" clearly have no self respect. They cringe and comply with our demands in the manner of the bitter feckless clerk who hates his job, hates his boss, but must at least appear to do his job. These Muslims resist us passively because that's all such cowards can muster.
At least al Qaida stands behind their satanic convictions. Muslim leaders in Yemen, SA, and Pakistan are gutless scum who can't even boast aspiring to the lowest of the low, and that is lowly indeed.
If the situation were reversed, there would be such an outcry. Imagine Americans firing rockets into the homes of muslims living in the US.
Imagine Americans firing rockets into the homes of muslims living in the US.
I can't. Call it a failure of imagination.
Not only does Islamic Imperialism imagine such things, it brings them to fruition. It is what has allowed conquering Muslims to consume one culture after another for the last 1,400 years. Muslims are willing and eager to imagine and carry out such things.
This is our future unless we remove Islamic influence and Muslims from our lands. Ask the Persians, or the Byzantines, or the Albanians, or the Egyptians, or the pre-Islamic Arabians. But you can't because they live behind the Iron Veil.
I would hate to lose the future over a lack of imagination,
mike,
You said imagine AMERICANS doing this. Well, I still can't. Even after 9/11, I can't picture it. I cannot see Americans doing this in a civilian area, even to Muslims. On the other hand, I have no problem seeing Muslims doing it. They are two very different things.
I think the failure of imagination is present at our highest levels because they cannot imagine people who have a chance to be free choosing instead to go on a killing spree. Their (and our) life experience never prepared them for this. Islam was a religion like any other, and all were welcome in America.
It's a terrible reflection on Islam that Muslims can not only justify, but glorify, acts of evil that are so horrendous they just wouldn't occur to you or me.
The Saudis have been "cooperating" closely with us for years now. And look what we end up with-- nineteen of their best and brightest flying our friendly skies.
Perhaps we need a little less reliance on Arab cooperation. Perhaps we need to be more "assertive."
The Yemenis cooperate and arrest a terrorist, keep him for a few years and then he "escapes." Or worse, in Saudi Arabia the terrorists are "de-programmed" and released.
How much more cooperation can we stand?
Kuffirs (us) are their enemy. Any cooperation they extend is to further some goal of their own, and is only for the short term. A long term partnership is not going to happen. They can not be trusted. Remember the USS Cole.
/That is all.
I still don't understand why so may refuse to simply look at the long swaths of time and space that have been occupied dealing with Islamic Imperialism and the Muslims that spread it.
For example, the muslims here in Hollywood, Florida are having a bar-b-que to foster bridges of understanding between the muslims living here and the citizens of the city. And the citizens of Hollywood will probably defer to the muslims.
And like so many other cultures and countries, we will become muslim. Because we cannot do what needs to be done. Because we cannot even stomach something as beneficial as mass deportation of all muslims. The horror!
Lebanon used to be a non-muslim country. Albania, too. Egypt was once Western. Even the multiple 'stans enjoyed a brief moment of light from Greece. I am beginning to think civilizational fatigue might be real. Maybe our old, tired Western Civilization just needs to be put down like a sick dog. We obviously can no longer defend ourselves from the barbarians at the gate.
Allah is not God.
Mohammed was not a good man.
Islam is not a religion.
Muslims are not citizens.
Four simple rules to be applied in a very pragmatic way and *BAM* no more problem from islam or muslims.
The fact that lots of mohammedans get great satisfaction out of doing things that the rest of us cannot even imagine is one of their biggest advantages in this fight.
In point of fact, Sun Tsu points out in the Art of War that the willingness to do what your opponent regards as shameful and disgusting can be a great advantage in war.
Miyamoto Musashi (I think) also tells the story of the warrior who never shaved or bathed, who's presence on the battlefield was so viscerally repulsive that he almost never lost a single fight, so unsettled were his opponents by his stench and disgusting appearance.
It's a sort of psy-ops.
The mohammedans take it to another level, making the morally repugnant a point of pride and a mark of virtue.
Very clever.
Very fiendish.
Very deserving of a merciless, brutal and crushing response.
Indeed, The Art of War.
We in the West are no longer able to wage war. And natural selection will make sure we receive the bounty of the weak.
mike trivisonno
if you want to make people reading here give up in despair, you're going the right way about it - writing off the whole of 'western civilisation' as too soft/ decadent/ not ruthless enough...DESERVING to die, destined to die at the claws and teeth of the 'superior' cruel animal, the Muslims with their barbaric Arab creed of war...kind of reminds me of the Nazis and their disdain for those 'soft', 'weak', unheroic and contemptible Jews and Christians...
Better to read Dylan Thomas:
"Do not go gentle into that good night/
Rage, rage against the dying of the light".
Or Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" - be warned, you sound far too much like Denethor when he's getting ready to commit suicide on a funeral pyre.
Or John Manifold, "The Tomb of Lt John Learmonth, AIF' [killed in Crete in WWII] -
"He also spun his pistol like a toy/
turned for the hills like wolf or kangaroo/
and faced destruction with a bitter joy/
His freedom left him nothing else to do
but set his back against his family tree
and fight the better for the fact he knew
he was as good as dead, because the sea
was closed and the air dark and the land lost
'they'll never capture me alive, said he."
I think Robert Spencer and Bat Yeor have their backs against their family tree - a pretty solid tree it is, too. And look at the sheer quality of the defectors from Islam who are joining the West: Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Magdi Cristiano Allam. Patrick Sookhdeo. Wafa Sultan. They will make a difference. THEY seem to think 'the west' is still worth fighting for. I don't think it's time yet to roll over and expose one's throat to the scimitar.
My final piece of advice: read G K Chesterton, 'The Everlasting Man', chapter five, 'The five deaths of the faith'. Or his poem, 'The Ballad of the White Horse', about Alfred's defence against the Danes.
Despair is one of the seven deadly sins.
By all means let us be realistic about our present predicament: but let us refuse to surrender to despair, and refrain from sowing it in others, because only if everyone does that, will defeat really be inevitable.
Do not rush with such indecent haste to write the epitaph of what Naipaul called 'the universal civilisation'.