Al-Qaida’s Yemen branch routed government forces from a large weapons depot in the country’s east on Friday, seizing dozens of tanks, Katyusha rocket launchers and small arms, security officials said, as airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition intensified in the capital, Sanaa, and also in Yemen’s second-largest city.
The seized depot is located in Mukalla, the capital of Hadramawt — Yemen’s largest province where al-Qaida has been consolidating its control. Only the day before, the militants captured a major airport, an oil terminal and the area’s main military base.
No Bergdahl left behind – The Obama administration so far has declined to organize a rescue mission for the estimated 3,000 to 4,000 U.S. citizens in Yemen.
He’s waiting until they get captured by Al-Qaeda so he can trade away the rest of terrorists in Guantanamo….
I’m going to have to sue the OIC for my popcorn induced weight gain.
pete >
Heh, the first comment and probably the best.
There’s nothing like trading incarcerated western educated terrorists for non English speaking goat herders holding an American passport.
So what can one single community organizer do? Answer: “Ahab must live so Mohamed and others may die”.
No problem from Obama’s point of view. World peace demands a few disposable casualties and at least the USA is no longer meddling in other countries affairs. All going according to plan with almost 2 years to wrap up the loose ends. He can do that with his pen and his cellphone. He wants to be seen as the worlds greatest community organizer and will have kept his promise to fundamentally change America. The people got what they voted for. The people deserve every bit of what they got. All those that voted against him are also disposable casualties , the deniers that wouldn’t embrace the “Hope and Change” that was his election platform. You must admit that he kept his promises which is a rarity in the political arena. From “Land of the free” to “How do you like us now” by ignoring all history and surrounding himself with like minded visionaries of the future. His legacy is guaranteed. His promises fulfilled. It’s a brave new world. Welcome to 1984.
Look they didn’t care about their own government employees in Benghazi.
What makes anyone think that they will care about mere ‘citizens’?
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Hans >
“What makes anyone think that they will care about mere ‘citizens’?’
Agreed, nothing.
In fact there are real citizens all over the US living on the streets, in tent cities and if their lucky their car.
“Real citizens” as opposed to non English speaking “dual citizens” that are citizens in name only. They use their dual citizenship to dodge western taxes, and their western passports as a get out of dodge when sh*t hits the fan free pass.
Canadians saw that in Lebanon, when we sent Canadian taxpayer funded navy ships to pick up all the tax dodging “dual citizens” living there during the Israeli air strikes a few years ago.
The US Marines cut and ran a couple of weeks ago, leaving behind their weapons. I think it was the Italians who mounted a special mission to extricate Italian nationals, a week or so ago.
Obama is a cruel and sadistic person. Leaving American citizens to the mercy of ISIS and al Qaida must give him a big rush.
I am waiting for ISIS to reach New York. That should be interesting.
The manchurian candidate
No doupt that Al Queda got their weapons from Obama and the mexican dictator
“3,000 to 4,000 U.S. citizens”.
So Obama is going to abandon what amounts to the size of a small town.
I am seriously beginning to believe that there is NOTHING that Obama can do that will get himself impeached.
Spurwing Plover >
“No doupt that Al Queda got their weapons from Obama….”
Here is a US Army purchase of nearly 600,000 AK-47 magazines. Now lets all watch all those US soldiers running around the Middle East with their AK’s…../
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=38d3a1d5cc5a2de1c00cdc5b4836dde5&tab=core&_cview=0
“1. 592,825 (approx) AK Rifle Magazines: 7.62x39mm Caliber, New Production, Steel, 30 Round Capacity…….”
Thing is, Obomber thinks he is smarter than the average genius, a know-all that knows nothing – especially about international affairs. Remember that he is a better speech writer than his speech writers, a better general than his generals, etc. He thinks he is smarter than Machiavelli, without having read him, or any history.
And he will run for Dictator of the World as head of the UN, I bet. His one goal is to weaken, apologize for, America. He really thinks all the evils in the world are due to white capitalism, as do all socialists.
3,000 to 4,000 American citizens.
So what’s the big deal? The muzzie in chief has at least two to three magnitudes that number of “legal” illegals coming in to replace them. No problem…yawn.
Hate to be harsh, but what are the 4-5000 Americans still doing there? Travel/live in a country like that at your own peril.
It’s not like they hadn’t been warned: http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings/yemen-travel-warning.html
It won’t be long John ISIS is already just a few miles across the US border in Mexico.
Those magazines would have been ancillaries for the AK-47 rifles they bought to supply to “friendly” Iraqi and Afghan forces. (A good choice of equipment in the context, though it is arguable that they ought not to have bothered equipping those forces as their performance and loyalties turned out.)
You have to admit that a mass head hacking of Americans would be good for business, at least for the Military Industrial Complex.
After all, they were deaf dumb and blind back in forty one.
The Middle Eastern candidate. (And not the Israeli part of the Middle East.)
The Tooner >
“…..though it is arguable that they ought not to have bothered equipping those forces as….”
As I said…….
The US either has the dumbest military “think tanks” on the planet – or – they are intentionally supplying the Islamic terrorists with weapons.
One of the two choices anyway, with the end results the same.
They started equipping the Iraqi and Afghan “friendlies” before the Obama presidency. Since then? Yes, he has his own reasons.
“The Obama administration so far has declined to organize a rescue mission for the estimated 3,000 to 4,000 U.S. citizens in Yemen.”
That is because he has not read about it in the papers yet.
The country that gave the world men like Lincoln and Jefferson on down to Patton and Truman and gave us heros played out onscreen by John Wayne Charlton Heston and many others, now gives the world fools like this president, surrounded by clowns like Pelosi, Reid and the actors onscreen like Sandler, Rogan Paltrow etc. Boy has America fallen a long ways.
I saw this trend back in the 90’s with all the whining and rending of garments because a few US servicemen died in Gulf I….
It seems Americans (at least the US media) is unwilling to sustain ANY casualties….and the bad guys know this.
The Port of Aden is not heavily fortified…..”too dangerous”.
Perhaps there is concern the civilians could be injured in the cross fire….but somehow I doubt this….
Aufträge sind Aufträge
“Befehl ist Befehl”
Well, coming from an administration that WILLFULLY aided and abetted the killing of a US Ambassador and members of his security team by doing NADDA…( I had better words on my tongue)….does this surprise anyone..?
An administration that has whitewashed ANY criticism of ISLAM or for that matter deleted any useful knowledge of same within Govt security circles and Invites or has MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OPERATIVES into its own administration …. Does this surprise anyone..? See this for some insight: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3672/muslim-brotherhood-us-government
An Administration that willfully stops arms and ammunition from being delivered to Israel during a time of crises….does the above action surprise anyone..??
An Administration that basically traded away their sanctions for a piece of paper..?? (the Chamberalin move WRIT LARGE)
An Administration that brings Communist Cuba into its arms…???
And that’s just a tiny tidbit of his so called foreign affairs “capability”
This President is an ISLAMIC JIHADIST – A TRAITOR….
Why no one has taken this POS out is simply beyond me.
3 to 4 thousand tax dodging dual citizens like in lebanon in 2006. leave them there, if you bring them back they will fill up section 8 housing etc etc etc and then vote democrat.