UK 'will not send troops to Yemen'

[maddezmom]

Source: PA

UK 'will not send troops to Yemen'
(UKPA) – 9 minutes ago

Yemen must not become another Afghanistan but Britain's role is to "stay close" and offer it assistance rather than send in troops at this stage, the new head of the UK's Armed Forces said.

Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards said the military's concentration needed to remain on Afghanistan - to prevent that country becoming a "second Yemen".

Global attention has once again been focused on Yemen, the country which spawned al Qaida, after it emerged as the source of ink cartridge bombs found on aircraft last week.

Asked if an Afghan-style military intervention was the right approach, Gen Richards told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Monday: "It might be but right now it is not considered to be the case and clearly the Yemeni government does not believe it needs our help and they are extremely on-side, like most Islamic nations are actually."

He said: "Clearly, the primary agency dealing with this are our intelligence and security agencies. But the military are already helping with their training.



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[unhappycamper]

1. Between nutbags advocating we attack Iran and AFRICOM doing its shady bidness in Africa,

Yemen is already in play.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Did you catch that his circular arguement?

"Yemen must not become another Afghanistan"
and
Afghanistan must not become another Yemen.

"the military's concentration needed to remain on Afghanistan - to prevent that country becoming a "second Yemen".

[dipsydoodle]

5. Yes

Makes me wonder what he's on.

[bemildred]

6. "Our only hope is to keep them both from becoming each other!" nt

[Ghost Dog]

3. "Yemen, the country which spawned al Qaida"...

We all know it was tha USA that spawned the same.

[TheWatcher]

8. Wait, I thought that was Afghanistan? No, it was Iraq, No Wait, it was Iran.....

Oh geez, I just can't keep up with the changing Propaganda anymore.

This is like trying to keep up with Professional Wrestling storylines.

It's all so intense, and.....REAL.

:rofl:

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[grahamhgreen]

7. This Yemeni terror dude had a private meeting in the Pentagon... Nuff said.