Six trucks of explosives 'disappear' in Yemen

[The Straight Story]

Six trucks of explosives 'disappear' in Yemen

Fears of a terrorist strike against Western embassies in Yemen have grown amid claims a convoy of lorries laden with explosives had been smuggled into the country's capital city, Sana'a.

In an apparently botched surveillance operation, militants driving six trucks filled with weapons and ordnance succeeded in giving security forces the slip as they entered the city, according to local media.

The revelations came as western diplomatic missions in Sana'a went into lockdown following threats from al-Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate, which has taken responsibility for a failed attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day.

Both the British and American embassies, considered the most profile targets in the city, remained closed for a second day. France and the Czech Republics also shut their embassies, while Spain, Germany and Japan announced restrictions on public access to their missions.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/6932746/Six-trucks-of-explosives-disappear-in-Yemen.html

[Mari333]

1. hey, I have a solution... lets leave both occupations and maybe then we wont have to worry

violence we do creates violence against us
stop both occupations now

[Blue Owl]

2. +1

Let the exodus begin NOW.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. But..but..that would be so embarrassing to our "tough" leaders.

:hi: < Secret code for us "Obama Haters" and unrealistic, radical, pacifists.

[TheWraith]

6. To listen to you guys, you wouldn't know we were on our way out the door this instant. nt

[EFerrari]

7. Yeah, that whole escalation thingy has us all confused. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Will they be using helicopters to get out of the door as in Saigon?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

8. Right. Because there were no terrorist attacks before the invasions.

Oh, wait. Except 9/11. And the USS Cole bombing. And the '93 WTC bombing. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[gratuitous]

11. And so these invasions and occupations have accomplished . . .

Well, what, exactly? If there were terrorist attacks before the invasions, and there are terrorist attacks after the invasions, perhaps the invasions, occupations, all the death and destruction, the billions if not trillions of dollars spent, was for what? To show that we can do it? Yes, we're all really impressed down here. Very nice. Can we stop doing this destructive, expensive and totally ineffectual thing now?

[EFerrari]

3. Anybody check with the government of Yemen?

Gee, if they get an AQ problem, their fight against insurgents can be bankrolled by the US!

[thereismore]

5. Botched surveillance operation? How do you lose sight of 6 trucks? Boggles the mind. nt

[lib2DaBone]

9. That's almost as bad a $9 Billion in cash disappearing in Iraq....

Cash... shrink-wrapped and sitting on pallets...goes missing.. and no one follows up.

I'm sure my boss would say the same thing.. "$9 Billion? Missing? No problem. Don't worry about it."

[thereismore]

13. That's right. The fuckups of the bushie were so many and so egregious that one can't keep up. nt

[Old and In the Way]

14. Or, maybe not fuck-ups. Just criminals.

This happened in the Spring of '04...I'm betting that a lot of that unregulated money found its way back into the Bush re-election campaign. Remember, only loyal Republicans had access to it and were running things at the CPA during this period.

[thereismore]

16. So true, so true! What I think of as incompetence was most likely planned malice. All of it. nt

[Arctic Dave]

12. This was surveillance job and they didn't have the stuff bugged with a tracking device?

Christ, my cell phone can have me pinpointed just about anywhere and these idiots couldn't even do that. Does not compute.

[woo me with science]

15. Don't worry. I"m sure Colin Powell has aerial photos. nt