Explosion at US embassy in Yemen
A car bomb exploded at the US embassy in Yemen this morning. AP reports:
A car bomb targeting the U.S. Embassy hit the front gate of the compound in Yemen’s capital on Wednesday, causing unspecified casualties, a U.S. spokesman said.
Ryan Gliha, the embassy spokesman, told The Associated Press by telephone that there was a second explosion that followed the initial one, but did not know what caused it.
A Yemeni security official said the embassy was hit by two car bombs and that heavy gunfire lasting around 10 minutes followed the blasts.
Several nearby homes were badly damaged by the blasts, he said, but had no information on whether the heavily guarded embassy sustained damage too. He said three of the embassy’s guards were wounded, but he did not know their nationalities.
Via Bob Owens:
Sky News is saying the attackers were dressed as soldiers, and notes that the Yemeni branch of the Islamic Jihad had made threats just three days ago.
Reuters notes that the U.S. Embassy says no Americans were among the wounded.
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Identify them and wipe out the rest. no fuzzyfooting around.
Good morning, you’re up early are you going to be on F&F today?
Maybe if we just talked to them? Would that make it better? We could offer them Coca-Cola after we Mirandize them.
I’m shocked I tell ya…shocked!
Hmmmm…I keep waiting for the crazed Lutherans, the angry Methodists, the outraged Mennonites. And if I hear another word out of those Catholics, why I’m gonna give those irritated Christians a thing or two.
I second that, aj. Now, you have fun today combating trolls.
navy,
I just heard the troll network had teleprompters installed
in their homesunder their bridges.It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
If only Obam-uh were President. He would have obtained a restraining order adainst Islamic Jihad and this ne-e-e-e-e-ver would have happened.
adainst, against…same same.
They’re just misunderstood, right Obama?
Islamic Jihad is out to damage a US Embassy? \sarc off
Word on the street is that the bombing was retaliation for Jill Greenberg’s photo of Mohammed.
I’m waiting on BHO’s statement today that as President he will send troops into Yemen to bring those terrorists to justice.
Find ‘em and kill ‘em before they get another chance.
We don’ got no steenkin’ war on terror…
Seriously, though, they ought to reap what they sow, compliments of the US military.
An Obama administration would hear this news, call a press conference where BHO can hear himself talk and bathe us with his presence, and give a stern warning to those that would mean to do us harm.
Instead Boosh will probably do something off the handle and irresposible like actually take action to bring the perps to justice.
I’m curious to see how the MSM will present this. I”m expecting a “nothing to see here, just move along” attitude. HELLO! We’ve been bombed again! An embassy is AMERICAN SOIL.
I’m also betting it takes Obama at least half a day before he makes a statement and then says something along the lines of “uhhhh….that’s really bad.”
Obama won’t be able to respond without a teleprompter. He will say that he needs to sit down and have an open and honest conversation with the people who are so misunderstood. And I say find them wherever they are and destroy every last one of them with no apologies to anyone.
OK, this calls for strong measures: Send Obama to negotiate with the Yemeni car bombers! That oughta do the trick. When those jihadis hear Senator Obama is flying in packing a five point peace program, they’ll crap in their turbans, I assure you. I hear Obama is pretty good on the computer. I can just see Obama dazzling the terror cell that perpetrated this with a PowerPoint presentation, a really good one.
Obama has no experience dealing with emergencies and no sense of irony. If he became president he would “talk to them” and make peace. If something of this nature then happened anyway, he would have a temper tantrum (as he tends to do when people do unforgivable things like failing to obey his commands) and carpet bomb the entire country and maybe a few other countries too. Plus one or two of the states where McCain won.
By contrast, Bush will send the FBI in the vain hope that the Yemenis will allow a real investigation followed by real punishment for the real terrorists.
Jane Novak on this event:
http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2008/09/17/attack-on-us-embassy/
While Yemen keeps pressing the U.S. to release its terrorists we have at Guantanamo, they can’t keep the ones we previously turned over to locked up. That’s because of unguarded prison front gates and courts there (and here) that will not prosecute them. But hey, at least they have jobs. Most of the al Qaeda running around loose in Yemen are being paid by that government to put down the current revolt. Idle hands are the … /s
Watch carefully. Watch the reactions from the candidates, if they provide statements. I expect Obama to step in it again with his Kumbaya rhetoric.
This is just a local police matter. Probably just a bunch of crazy teenagers getting rowdy from having a couple of beers. Kids these days. (shrugs)
lol
Sure he does. Think how many times he’s had to rush to repair the political damage to his campaign by those off-the-cuff remarks he had the wisdom and judgment to make.
He’ll parachute in a crack team of lawyers to dig up dirt on them so he can pass it to the blogosphere. That’ll stop them. If that doesn’t work, he’ll threaten to boycott their sponsors.
And if that doesn’t work, he’ll shake down the Yemeni government for sneakers and basketballs.
Maybe Obama spoke to them in July too! Maybe he told them not to wait until the next administration to start bombing embassies so he could get elected.
ajmontana said (#1):
Yup. Let’s just get mad and kill a bunch of people. That’ll teach `em the superiority of western democracy real good. We’ll show `em just how American justice beats sharia justice.
And your hand-wringing, hanky twisting, Neville Chamberlain appeasing proposal, would be?
And yet more of the peanut farmer’s grim legacy. If Jimmah had had the testicular fortitude to go for the jugular when Iran took over the US Embassy, we wouldn’t be having all the problems we are today.
Instead, we can add yet another strike against the United States. I don’t believe I could count all the attacks that have been a direct result of the US showing weakness.
Truthfully, it goes back even farther than that - back to our political betrayal of South Vietnam - a direct legacy of John F#$#$^n Kerry and his Winter Soldiers.
Notice that every attack and humiliation the United States has suffered during the past forty-plus years has been a direct result of political manipulations, both ours and our adversaries. Our military has never let us down - not once! But our leaders and wanna-be leaders have, and continue to do so, forcing us to fight with both hands tied behind our back.
Until we are ready to deal with the enemy within our own borders directly, we will never be able to defeat our enemies abroad.
lgm, let me ask you this: is there anything you would be willing to fight for? I thought not.
Come on, give a person a chance to respond. (cups hand to ear….hears crickets) Okay, nevermind.
. The only thing I want to teach them about the the superiority of our fire power. Let them wallow in the 7th century if they want, I really couldn’t care less. But if they hit us, we should reply in kind, massively. If they want to talk, fine, talk. But if they want to play war, we can do that too. Fire for effect over,
I think his plan involved someone like monk (tv show) going over there and tracking down the bad guys. Is that right LGM??
Not to make light of this situation, butCarl Moyers is reporting that someone had cancelled their subscrition to US mag. and they are really pi$$ed.
Could this possibly be “The Religion of Piece” rearing it’s UGLY HEAD again??? Remember, THERE ARE MANY RELIGIONS IN THIS WORLD, BUT ONLY ONE RELIGION OF PIECE…
Well so far this attack has killed up to 16 muslims and ZERO americans. Whoes side is al qeada on again?
I’m one of those crazy Lutherans, and I think the most outrageous we get is nailing a list of demands to a church door.
Not even a person to a door, just a list of demands. But just you wait. I hear the second Lutheran Reformation is just around the corner.
The Hip-Hop Reformation.
sonofdy, with an aim like that, let’em keep it up. They are just doing the jobs that Americans are “dying” to do. Right, lgm?
That lead to centuries of religous warfare. Just saying…
Despite what some idiots seem to think, there are those who only understand the sword. If the thought that the US will exterminate them like the roaches they are gives pause to these animals, then so be it.
This is almost piling on, but! LGM! Have you ever in your life been in a tough spot? And I don’t mean some pushy-shovy junior high crap. Has your well being or even your life ever been in danger? Ever been scared sh**less, & you had to run or fight? If not, then you need to go find this sort of life experience & get back with your report. The mentality of being a victim is what’s at stake here. As long as you’re willing to get slapped around, it will keep happening. The longer it goes on, the violence only increases. Weakness invites more violence. If you can’t stomach violence, so be it. Just don’t accept the protection of braver people than you, & then criticize them for their actions.
These are not just “a bunch of people”. They are terrorists. That’s T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T-S,
you know, the particularly nasty “bunches of people” that blow up school buses, schools, and love to target restaurants, hospitals, market squares, anywhere the body count of innocent civilians will be high. Actually, I think we should catch them and feed them into a wood chipper feet first and broadcast it on live tv.
Kill ‘em all. We should start a charitable org to buy the bullets.
I find it interesting that the folks who subscribe to the Religion of Pieces perfer the 7th Century, except when it comes to keeping up with chemistry, aerodynamics (think 9/11) and nuclear technology. Hmmm.
Not sure if today’s crop of Mohammedians would be swayed by Blackjack Pershing’s methods in Manilla (excellent, BTW), but if I were an Islamist and heard a rumor about what American soldiers had in their guns (a la Pershing), I might think twice about working toward that caliphate. Goodbye paradise, goodbye virgins. Just sayin.’
This is an over-simplification. John Kerry didn’t betray us. He may have gone over there to “get his ticket punched,” he may have written himself up for some medals, but the indisputable fact is that he WAS in the war zone at a time in which he could have been killed.
He was entitled to speak publicly about the sacrifice of over 58,000 dead and missing US troops. His mistake was doing so as a POLITICIAN instead of as a soldier, in throwing fake medals over a wall in a staged press event, in making exaggerated accusations and generalizations about misconduct in front of congress to shock news viewers.
WE were betrayed by Democratic presidents who started and accelerated the war, a Republican president who falsely claimed he intended to end it in 1968, a press that for the most part didn’t investigate or challenge the build-up, a congress that approved wheat deals to the largest communist country in the world while funding a war against one of the smaller ones.
The sobering punchline is that the hands of our intelligence services are tied. Tom Clancy, once mentioning how during WWII Hoover even dealt with organized crime to help rout out Nazi sympathizers and saboteurs, said such policies could help us “effect reciprocity” on any almost group from a violent act within a week if only the cuffs came off. One wonders just who Dems/libs are afraid of more — and it’s the reason I’m a Repub!
James Greenidge
Queens New York
Yemen. It makes the rest of the Arabian world seem civilized. I’ve got a cousin who lives there, her husband works at the US embassy. This attack is just one more reason for the decent folks on the planet to eliminate the Islamic Jihad. All of it.
Right - a in nutshell, hand-wringing until the situation could be fully polled was America’s foreign policy under Clinton, which is why we ended up with 9/11.
Well.. yeah… that pretty much is what we need to do. Thanks
The same could be said for how we demonstrated how American justice beat Shinto justice, and how American justice beat Nazi justice. The result, two loyal friends and two of the strongest economies on the planet.
Then we created the U.N. . . .
A strongly worded condemnation from the security council, more money for muslim education, and if we do attack, writeup some rules of engagement that will make it impossible to actually win. That’ll teach em.
Now that we have troops in Afghanistan, we can’t take the Clinton approach to terrorism and bomb an empty piece of desert. Well I guess we could drop a cruise missle in the Nevada desert. Of course not until an environmental impact statement is filed, but then, look out Jihadi.
sonofdy said (#32):
That’s the strategy the British used in the American colonial rebellion of 1776. It didn’t work out for them either. Remember the Mel Gibson movie, how the colonials reacted with British troops killed people who had not attacked them?
Fixed it.
ECS
http://theturkeyfootbrand.blogspot.com/
Remember how twin towers made of concrete, steel and glass reacted when they absorbed the blunt force energy of being slammed against by jetliners flown by scum and filled with highly volatile fuel and U.S. citizens?
The War for Independence was not a movie. And yes we did win with superior firepower after the French intervention, leading to the battle at Yorktown and a decisive victory.
Movies aren’t real life, lgm. We aren’t talking about killing people; we’re talking about killing terrorists, the terrorists who attacked our embassy, the terrorists who planned the attack, the terrorists who supported the attack.
What would you have us do, invite them to discuss it over coffee?
ECS
http://theturkeyfootbrand.blogspot.com/
lgm, I’m still waiting for you to answer the question: is there anything you would be willing to fight for? I asked this question a long time ago on another thread, but you never did answer it. Would you care to answer it now?
On September 17th, 2008 at 11:23 am, lgm said:
Glorifying the jihad by comparing it to the American Revolutionaries, who fought, bled, and died so you can plop your butt in here and spew your inane drivel? You ass. The jihadis don’t want you to have those freedoms; they’re fighting to take them away from you and, yes, kill you.
Why is it so hard for leftists to get the thought through their head that there are people out there who will hate you and try to kill you no matter how many tea parties you throw for them? They don’t just hate us for our freedoms — they hate us simply for existing. It’s a religious passion of theirs, meaning that no amount of hand wringing, negotiating or sucking up will make them change their minds.
On September 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am, DBNinKY said:
They sat down to try to work out their differences with the hijackers, right? Tried to understand their situation and empathize?
Oh wait, I forgot. There wasn’t time because they were already dead.
Elm Creek Smith said (#55):
Good, you don’t want to kill people who aren’t terrorists. Question: how do you tell? Do you look `em in the eye (like Bush did to figure out that Putin was a stand up guy)? Do you — heaven forbid — have an investigation? Or do you use the Bush/McCain strategy — drop bombs in Yemen (or Iraq or Pakistan or wherever) and hope that some terrorists get killed along with the civilians?
cpodug said (#56):
Arugula!
Nice work ragheads. Apparently, no US casualties, but lots of collateral civilian casualties and damage. The terrorists are starting to make Wile E. Coyote look competent.
This week prominent Muslim clerics have begun openly criticizing these kinds of attacks that do nothing but kill other Muslims.
Mao said insurgents are like fish. The people are the sea. Fish need the sea to be able to live in. Al Quiada in Iraq has found this out the hard way. These losers will find it out as well, when on a tip from some formerly silent Muslim, the Predator drone puts a Maverick missle in the middle of their meeting table.
Sucks to be them. We are winning.
Nice way to mischaracterize our current strategy, lgm. We use intelligence resources to identify and locate the terrorists. Then, we destroy them. Whether we use dumb bombs, laser-guided bombs, JDAMS, Hellfire missiles, Claymore mines, or bullets, is immaterial to me.
BTW, how are you using the word “civilians?” Do you mean someone who wasn’t involved at all in the attack, or do you mean someone who merely materially supported the attackers?
ECS
http://theturkeyfootbrand.blogspot.com/
LGM,
If I know a family whose adults and children are being killed repeatedly by a serial bomber and I find the bomber at home with the wife and kiddies, will I not strike that target to spare his kids knowing that will allow the bomber to go on killing my friends’ children?
Not a chance. He should have picked another line of work.
Elm Creek Smith #61,
And my personal favorite DPICM, Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions, always a good choice…..
Notice, the moon god worshipers used snipers to support the front positions.
This means they had training.
We have all been called legitimate targets by AQ. Hizboalla has murdered more Americans than any other moon god worshiping group.
Arm yourselves, because the State Department allows more of the religion of peace into this country every day.
ROPMA
Have you seen the results of a small JDAM with a delay fuse? I saw video of a strike where a house just disappeared. The houses on either side remained standing.
DPICM is too much like a shotgun. It is designed for use on massed troops or vehicle concentrations.
JMHO.
ECS
CPT, AR
US Army (Ret.)
http://theturkeyfootbrand.blogspot.com/
For all those relating this to what a President Obama would do, or not do, what is the current President doing?
My question is not meant to be an indictment, but one of consistentcy.