Donald Trump’s first concrete decision as commander in chief was a major fiasco that killed nine children, eight women, and a U.S. soldier in a botched raid on al Qaeda in Yemen. The operation — which Trump reportedly approved over dinner —…
by Tom Burghardt, Global Research, Jan. 11, 2010 New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up. With the White House in crisis mode since the…
U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Jan. 8, 2010 In parallel with the escalation of the war in South Asia – counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and drone missile attacks…
The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint By F. William Engdahl, Global Research, January 5, 2010 On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to…
Touch Yemen, Get Burned By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Dec. 31, 2009 We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the nails that go into the rock We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned…
By Jordan Fabian, The Hill, Dec. 27, 2009 Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) Sunday said that Yemen could be the ground of America’s next overseas war if Washington does not take preemptive action to root out al-Qaeda interests there. Lieberman, who…
