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U.S. Team: "Advanced U.S.-Made Missile" Used in Attack on Yemen Palace
2011-06-22
[Yemen Post] U.S. Sherlocks have found out that a U.S.-made missile designed for assassinations was used in the attack on the presidential palace earlier this month that injured President-for-Life Saleh,
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
Alarabiya website reported on Tuesday.
We've got special missiles just for assassinating people? Why wasn't I told?
The Sherlocks also said that the missile is a 'very advanced product' used only in the U.S. and Russia, the website said.

"The U.S. probe team informed the Yemeni authorities about the finding," it said, a day after a Saudi paper reported that one of the bigwigs who were maimed in the attack had been buried in Soddy Arabia.

Several bigwigs were maimed in the attack on the presidential palace in Sana'a that also killed eleven of Saleh's guards.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Aloula newspaper quoted a Yemeni official as saying that the missile an advanced Russian rocket. "The guided missile held a Russian name, FOGAZ," the paper said.

A team from a U.S. non-government firm is currently investigating the attack without any help from the FBI, it added.

The finding refutes previous U.S. and Yemeni conclusions that President Saleh was attacked from inside his compound by artillery or tank missiles.

"The missile that landed in the presidential palace during Friday prayers was designed for targeting heavily-guarded personalities, not buildings or other targets," the U.S. Sherlocks were quoted as saying.
Has anyone seen the actual report, or is the Yemen Post reporter going by rumours here?
Posted by:Fred

#8  Not rumors, Periwinkle, just plain made-up.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-06-22 19:18  

#7  It's the Lockheed L-732 TurbanWhacker. The warhead is triggered by proximity to a Swiss bank account holder.
Posted by: Matt   2011-06-22 15:25  

#6  the missile remains were clearly marked:
"Advanced Official US Missile Made For Muslim Assassinations"
Posted by: Frank G   2011-06-22 14:54  

#5  Why in tarnation are we sharing our Assasin Special with the damn Russians? I mean wtf? Let them build their own Wasp-bomb.
Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where   2011-06-22 14:37  

#4  I bet the investigators are from Greenpeace. It's Bush's fault!
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2011-06-22 05:17  

#3  And who are these investigators? I smell fish.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2011-06-22 04:56  

#2  The US has an assassination bomb now? That's news to me. What is its designation?
Posted by: gromky   2011-06-22 02:34  

#1  So Yemen has their own version of the Weekly World News. Look! It's al-Bat Boy.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-06-22 00:37  

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