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The United States is considering a request from the United Arab Emirates for military support to assist a new offensive in Yemen against al-Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate, U.S. officials tell Reuters.
A U.S.-backed military push by the Gulf ally could allow the administration of President Barack Obama to help strike a fresh blow against a group that has plotted to down U.S. airliners and claimed responsibility for last year's attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has exploited the chaos of Yemen's year-old civil war to become more powerful than any time in its history, and now controls a swathe of the country.
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The UAE has asked for U.S. help on medical evacuation and combat search and rescue as part of a broad request for American air power, intelligence and logistics support, the U.S. officials said.
originally posted by: Americanpatriot123
We should invade them and the entire ME! Sort this mess out for good!
Subject these barbarians, kill the terrorists and take the oil as payment!
originally posted by: bandersnatch
a reply to: MysterX
Just hand me another blue pill,....ill be much better soon.....
We were running a drone war over Yemen for a long while , Death from above....
But it couldn't have been too effective considering the Al qaidas are stronger than ever....over there...
Do you think possibly that the Houthis might have a real right to revolt....?They have been peaceably complaining for much longer than they have been shooting....nobody heard...
Its good enough for the US to enshrine that right to its own citizens, but the rest of the empire nuh uh....
By the way....
Will the REAL Yemeni government please stand up?
Aparently they were so unpopular they fled the country....
If I government has to flee to next door to survive its citizens anger...what legitimacy is that?
Whats going on in Yemen is their own affair and let them settle it...
The Houthis pretty much won till the" big brothers" all jumped in...
originally posted by: bandersnatch
Just who d you think you are talking to?
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: Americanpatriot123
We should invade them and the entire ME! Sort this mess out for good!
Subject these barbarians, kill the terrorists and take the oil as payment!
I think we tried that in Iraq and Afghanistan....
How did that work out?