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US forges alliance with Saddam officers to fight Yemen al-Qaeda
2010-01-06
Posted by:Phith Dingle6292

#4  I've long felt the US should create some sort of Foreign Legion. You don't have to grant citizenship to folks in the legion. Pack it full of Arabs. Ex Bath'ists or whomever has been cleared. They could do Blackwater type jobs.

A long time ago the Reagan Administration had an agreement with Argentina to have Argie troops in Central America doing some of the dirty work America was unwilling to get involved in personally. The Falklands War killed the agreement but it was a good idea. Sort of like Koreans fighting in Vietnam.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2010-01-06 20:54  

#3  FT.COM > BAILOUT PLAN SPLITS KUWAIT, + US WARNED OVER MILITARY AID TO YEMEN, espec by own US + [anti-Militants]Yemeni Govt.Officials.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-01-06 20:36  

#2  ION RENSE > TIMES ONLINE.UK > [UN World Bank Pert]BANKRUPT AND FEEBLE YEMEN CAN SURVIVE ONLY YEAR, afore likely experiencing TOTE ECON COLLAPSE??? Yemen's econ unemployed, other may choose to go to war to make a buck = SURVIVE [play into the hands of AQAP, other Militant Groups].

IOW, ARTIC SUB-READ > YEMEN NEEDS A POTUS BAMMER = USGOVT BAILOUT!

* Also, WMF > DO NOT DOUBT: IMPERIALIST US WILL USE ITS AL QAEDA PROXY TO BUILD MILITARY BASES IN YEMEN TO CONTROL THE MIDDLE EAST, MUSLIM HOLY LAND OF SUADI ARABIA, RED SEA AND SUEZ CANAL, AFRICA, AND CHINA'S TRADE-OIL ROUTES. CHINA MUST DEV EFFECTIVE RESPONSE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-01-06 20:29  

#1  Sorta like how the French used ex-Wehrmacht soldiers to try and hold Indochina after the war, but let's hope our foray turns out better.
Posted by: Steve White   2010-01-06 19:58  

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