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| Yemen Says Germany Ban 'Collective Punishment and Strange' |
| 2010-11-03 |
| [Yemen Post] Yemen said on Monday Germany's ban on cargo flights coming through it was hasty, strange, exaggerating, harming its counterterrorism efforts and only serving Al-Qaeda. An official said the move, taken after the mail bombs sent to the United States of America onboard planes that originated in Yemen and that were seized in London and Dubai, was a collective and illogical punishment of Yemen, which refuses terrorism and is launching an unabated war against it. Yemen is one of the countries most affected by terrorist acts by local and foreign Islamic fascisti who come to bomb and do other destructive acts inside it, the official said, adding that Yemen's friends should support it in this case as it is determined to continue the war on terror despite all consequences. On Monday, a front man for the German Transport Ministry said in a presser that his country expanded the ban on freight flights coming through Yemen and tightened security measures at airports after it had discovered a suspicious package passed through its western part. The decision is indefinitely valid, he said, pointing out that all Yemeni airplanes flying to Germany were handed a copy of it. Now, German aviation companies should prevent direct and indirect flights coming through Yemen from landing at local airports, he made clear. "Moreover, Germany is currently considering banning cargo flights from other countries within the framework of a comprehensive security review." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Exports of quat maybe? |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2010-11-03 19:53 |
| #4 I ask again: how much air freight traffic is there between Germany and Yemen in the first place? After looking up Yemen in the CIA Factbook and Wikipedia, the only possibilities for exports to Europe would seem to be handicrafts and recordings of Al-Awlaki sermons. They've got a small amount of oil and just opened a liquified natural gas processing plant last year, but not enough of either to send all the way to Europe. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-11-03 16:43 |
| #3 I ask again: how much air freight traffic is there between Germany and Yemen in the first place? Seems like the Germans have figured out that they can live without it, however much it is. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-11-03 09:25 |
| #2 *YAWN* When the majority of Yemenis practice a sane religion, they can talk about "strange" and bitch about "collective punishment". Until then... just WTF do they call dhimmitude if not "collective punishment"? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2010-11-03 09:19 |
| #1 Good ! This is, no doubt, a decision taken following the stupid ban of Yemeni prime minister on any western forces landing to investigate the perpetrators and hunt the Al-Kaida forces down. The Bozo has constantly impeded any western forces efforts to close down on Terrorist activities in his stone-age "kingdom" piece of the desert which is practically a safe haven to the Al-Kaida vermin. I hope this ban will be expanded and extended indefinitely to give him a taste of his own medicine. |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2010-11-03 06:06 |