Barack Obama pronounced al-Qaeda near death in 2012. Now the U.S. is closing its embassy in Yemen indefinitely because of al-Qaeda. Most Americans, however, have no idea of how spectacularly Obama’s foreign policy has failed, because the mainstream media indefatigably refuses to tell them.
“Terrorist threat shuts down US Embassy,” WEARTV.com, May 10 2014:
As the fight against al Qaeda in Yemen flares into what looks dangerously close to all-out war, the U.S. is bracing itself for more possible terror attacks.
CNN has learned exclusively that the threat against the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, the country’s capital, is far more serious than originally thought. The Embassy announced on Wednesday it was shutting its doors to the public indefinitely.
Now, two Yemeni National Security officials tell CNN the plot against the Embassy is bigger than it was believed to have been. “The U.S. government is taking this threat far more seriously than they’ve taken other credible threats against them,” explained one of the officials who requested anonymity as he was not authorized to speak with the media.
Of great concern to Americans in Yemen is the increase in fighting in Sana’a. According to numerous officials, on Friday al Qaeda linked militants attacked two government installations – first the Political Security Headquarters, where they engaged in a firefight with Yemeni troops, and then outside the Presidential Palace, where huge clashes with the military continued. At least 4 Yemeni troops and at least 3 militants died as a result, with the death toll expected to rise. Interior Ministry and Defense Ministry officials worry the situation is deteriorating dangerously.
Earlier in the week, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, targeted foreign installations in the capital – killing one French citizen who worked with the European Union Mission there. The officials added the U.S. is taking this as a graver threat than the one encountered in 2012, when protesters breached the Embassy’s heavily secured perimeter and stormed the building. According to terrorism experts, there’s more reason than ever for the U.S. to worry….
miriam rove says
Obama is a joke.m
Jay Boo says
This is great news for John Kerry and the whole stinking Obama administration.
Now that the Embassy is closed there will be no need to concoct an outrageous Hillary film farce in order to cover-up the abandonment of American Embassy staff while bowing in fear of Islam.
eib says
+1
eib says
An obvious act of war against the U.S.
To compel the diplomatic staff of a nation to leave its compound is an act of war.
What has the admin to say?
Why have they chosen cowardice?
pongidae rex says
Islam and Islamists respect only strength and the will to use it brutally and decisively to prevail without regard for any goal except total victory.
Thus, when it comes to the USA, they have nothing to fear. We will trot out our brave young soldiers as targets, then put them on trial for murder if they they get the idea that victory in a conflict matters, and do nothing when bomb makers and IED placement specialists are released from jail by corrupt judges to kill and maim more of our soldiers.
WIth the largest military machine in human history, the USA will never win another war for the simple fact that, at this point in history, our hard won ideals have all been compromised and we stand for nothing.
EYESOPEN says
I concur 100% with your assessment P. Rex. But as far as “trotting out our brave, young soldiers…” Personally, I wish all of them would mutiny. None of these personal little “wars” has been constitutional. None of them is to protect the United States of America directly. We have seen many good men die and be horribly wounded just to feed the war machine industry (and those who hold large amounts of shares in same), and the fat cats who benefit the most from an skyrocketing national debt.
And how are many of those vets treated when they return home? Not well at all. (The veterans’ deaths while awaiting VA care come instantly to mind.)
I believe it was the cynical and diabolic Henry Kissinger who made this quote in front of Alexander Haig: “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” It looks as if politicians and bureaucrats have the same rotten thoughts.
James says
America was not supposed to win ANY war.Only sacrifice.Americans exist for sacrifice;that’s all.THE HIGH PRIEST PRESIDES DAILY OVER THE DAILY SACRIFICE.
dumbledoresarmy says
This is the point at which diplomatic relations with Yemen should end.
1/ Pull out *all* known non-Muslim American citizens currently present in Yemen. (“Americans” who are either Muslims of Yemeni extraction or converts to Islam can stay behind; good riddance). Shut down the US embassy and strip it of everything valuable and leave.
2/Evict from the USA all Yemeni diplomats and all Muslims on Yemeni passports who are “visiting”, “studying”, “doing business”, etc. Muslims of Yemeni extraction who have somehow acquired permanent residency or citizenship will be thoroughly investigated; the least suggestion of fraud, and/ or of falsifying of information to gain asylum, residency or citizen status, and/ or of criminal and/ or jihad / sharia-pushing activity within the US or anywhere else…pffft! papers cancelled, and out they go, back to Yemen.
3/ END all ‘aid’ to and trade with Yemen. Forever.
4/ Seize and freeze any and all Yemeni-owned liquid and illiquid assets within the USA.
Then: rinse and repeat, one by one, with all the *other* Islamic hell-pits with which the US is currently engaged in dead-end dhimmi-style “relationships”.
PatnCat says
I totally agree with Mr. Dumbelsdoresarmy! Pfffft! Stop foreign aid, evict Yemeni diplomats and any muslim ilk, nationalize their embassy here in Washington, load all on military cargo planes, shipped out of an Air Force base. Dust off hands and start with the next country. No women’s rights? Baby girl marriages? Multiple wives getting US welfare? There’s more seats. Yes, rinse and repeat!