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U.S. Tactics Shift To Taking Operatives Alive
The United States will begin new operations against the al Qaeda network in Yemen after finding evidence of the group's role in last week's bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, a well-informed Yemeni source says. Washington has informed Yemeni authorities of its plans to capture alive suspected al Qaeda members, the source said.Prepare the giggle juice! Thursday's suicide attack on the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa killed 16 persons. An attempt to down an Israeli chartered flight over Kenya failed. After the Mombasa bombing, U.S. Central Forces Command in the Horn of Africa decided to change its tactics in the war on terrorism. According to information from U.S. Navy officers, the United States will carry out pre-emptive strikes against targets in the Horn of Africa, including Somalia, which have become "havens for terrorists and al Qaeda operatives." "Yemen and the United States are coordinating a large-scale attack on suspected al Qaeda members in several Yemeni provinces," said the Yemeni source, who requested anonymity. He said the United States is targeting the provinces of Marib, Shabwah, Jawf and Hudaydah on the Red Sea â all believed to shelter members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. The source said he expected a large-scale attack in a few days, and that the upcoming operations were intended to hunt down and capture suspected al Qaeda members instead of killing them. Letting them know we are coming will cause them to get nervous and try to move. Easier to get them on the move. Posted by: Steve 2002-12-04 |
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