Britain, U.S. to fund Yemen anti-terror police unit

[StarfarerBill]

Source: Associated Press

LONDON – The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama had agreed to fund a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country.

Brown's Downing Street Office said the U.K. and the U.S. had also agreed to increase support for Yemen's coast guard operation. Pirates operating in the waters between Somalia and Yemen have seized four ships in the last week.

Downing Street said Brown and Obama will push the U.N. Security Council to create a larger peacekeeping force for Somalia.

The British government unveiled its plans in the wake of the thwarted Christmas Day bombing of a passenger plane bound for Detroit.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100103/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_yemen

[dkf]

1. As long as we don't nation build.

This is sounding very slippery slopeish though.

[StarfarerBill]

3. Yep. i imagine we already have advisors there. How long before the first ground troops...

hit the beaches...and I'm not talking a UN peacekeeping force, either.

[classysassy]

2. When will we learn?

The american(poor) will find themselves broke meddling into the affairs of other countries,the war on terror is a bad joke,akin to the war on drugs,why not call it what it is,a war on the poor people on this planet.The rich crooks want to control the economies of the world,we the suckers are asked to pay for their wars of aggression.Wake up people we are getting screwed again.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Uh, underpants gnome was from a rich family.

As were most of the 9/11 hijackers.

[YouTakeTheSkyway]

9. A very true and inconvenient fact

[earcandle]

4. Building our security industries all over the world, right in front of our eyes! Dingbats, that is

what we are.

Are we done working for this crap yet?

[im1013]

5. Somehow, I'd be willing to bet

that this will involve US taxpayers paying gazillions of dollars to

a particular "private security company".

It's always about the money.... "Yeah, let's spend billions of dollars bombing them....

then we can spend twice as much protecting them....see, all it took this time was some dumb kid with

explosive undies."


:argh:

[MetaTrope]

7. Yes, the Savak will rise again!

Thank you mister president.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Good example

They never learn.

[704wipes]

8. Where are Bayh & Lieberman now? Not concerned with deficits?

That's what I thought.

[winyanstaz]

11. yup...lets pay for that instead of healthcare....