America has lost supportof the world??? Since when did America EVER have support of the world?Afghanistan? Iraq? No, people were more than satisfied to say "I want no part of this" because I have not been affected by it, allow these thugs and criminals to continue destroying their people as long as I'm not affected. America's perception abroad by a bunch of cowards is the least of our problems. And your laughable claims of war profit and oil? Oil costs more now than ever, and the war has cost billions. Lets admit the truth and that is that Saddam Hussein refused to allow inspectors to do their jobs. So we kicked the door in and allowed our inspectors to look wherever they wanted. Saddam shouldve just let the inspectors in and he'd still be alive instead of hanged as a murderer. And as far as Palin is concerned you're taking the statement too literally, she was eluding to those fighting under the umbrella of Muslim extremism not somebody from a specific country but those fighting for an ideal. If you can call it that.
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Six Yemeni security guards, four civilians (who were apparently lining up for visas) and six militants were killed. Mohammed Albasha, a spokesperson for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, said 10 others were critically wounded and that the overall death toll could grow. "Yemen is a battlefield in the war on terror and we are losing lives," he said.
Albasha told NEWSWEEK that the working assumption of Yemeni security officials is that Wednesday's attack was an act of retaliation. In August, an Al Qaeda leader named Salem Omar Al Quayti was killed in another gun battle with Yemeni security forces in the eastern province of Hadramawt. (Al Quayti was one of 23 Al Qaeda militants who escaped during a spectacular 2006 jailbreak that U.S. officials concluded was an inside job.) After Al Quayti's death, Al Qaeda's Yemen branch posted a statement on an internet site on Aug. 20: "We vow to [carry out] a revenge operation."
More ominous is the prospect that the militants who carried out Wednesday's attack might have been fighters who had returned from battle in Iraq—a potential harbinger of more operations to come. A Yemeni source (who asked not to be identified because of political sensitivities) said the Yemeni government has been concerned about returning Iraq fighters for some time, and that that was one reason Salah's government chose last year to release Jamal al-Badawi, the militant indicted in the United States for his role in the Cole bombing.
Badawi's release enraged senior U.S. counter-terrorism officials and prompted FBI Director Robert Mueller to fly to Yemen last spring to complain directly to Salah. But the Yemeni source said Badawi's reason had a logic related to Iraq. The Yemeni fighters returning from Iraq were coming back having learned new and sophisticated techniques to avoid detection by security forces. They avoided use of cell phones and e-mail. The Yemenis hoped to follow Badawi in hopes that his status as a Cole bomber would lead them to other fighters returning from Iraq, the source said. But U.S. objections prompted the Yemenis to re-arrest Badawi, the Yemeni official insisted. U.S. officials, however, are still furious that Badawi has not been turned over to the United States—to face trial for an attack that killed 17 sailors—and are skeptical that Badawi is truly in Yemeni custody at all times.
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