I thought I would get an early start posting this morning before the global warming induced huge snowstorm knocks out our rural cable! I came across this story at Gateway Pundit, one of my regular morning reading stops. If you are thinking how does this involve RRW, remember that I’ve reported a couple of times lately that Saudi Arabia (with its state of the art border fence) was trying to keep the riff-raff Shia Muslims from Yemen out of their country and that Saudi Arabia had recently apprehended Somalis helping the Yemenis, here.
Holy cow! Now Peace-prize Obama is bombing Yemen! Here is the story Fox News is reporting:
The U.S. has launched two missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Yemen, two U.S. officials told Fox News, signaling an escalation of the Obama administration’s fight against the terrorist organization.
The politically sensitive strikes Thursday, first reported by ABC News, supplement efforts already under way by the government of Yemen to go after Al Qaeda in the country, the officials told Fox News, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the operation.
Such an operation is particularly sensitive in Yemen. “It’s very difficult for Yemen to ask the U.S. for help given the nature of their population and its views about the West,” one official said. “And the U.S. doesn’t want to compromise their ability to ask for help.”
Is this about protecting Yemen and the US or about protecting Obama’s friends, the Saudis?
By the way, one commenter at Gateway Pundit suggests Obama is ‘wagging the dog’ after his failure to achieve anything at Copenhagen, or on health care reform.
Endnote: I wonder how Yemeni Jihadi sleepers, like this guy in Knoxville, TN, are going to be taking this?