OK, I made that last part up.
Reporting from Beirut – Yemeni security forces killed two suspected Al Qaeda militants today in an operation that also left two alleged fighters wounded, the nation’s official Saba news agency reported.
Amid fears of Al Qaeda attacks against foreign targets, Japan, Germany and France closed their embassies to the public in Yemen a day after the U.S. and Britain ordered their missions closed.
“Groups claiming to be part of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have issued threats against foreign representatives in Yemen,” French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero told reporters in Paris, according to Agence France-Presse.
Yemen has come under scrutiny following an alleged attempted by a Nigerian on Christmas Day to down a Northwest Airlines flight en route to Detroit from Amsterdam. Authorities say the suspect claimed to have received orders from a cleric in Yemen.
Western officials have vowed to step up aid for the impoverished country, which is already fending off a violent rebellion in the north and a separatist movement in the south. Dozens of nations are scheduled to take part in a Jan. 28 donors conference in London meant to boost Yemen’s security and bolster its economy.
I’d much rather see Western countries fork over money for this effort rather than pay Bangladesh a small fortune because they’ve watched “An Inconvenient Truth” too many times and fear all the pants-wetting will make the country disappear.
I only mentioned amnesty because the White House is bringing it up as a way to make sure the president isn’t lying when Obamacare begins covering undocumented lights in the universe illegal aliens.
You see? All the president has to do is wave the Scepter of the Unicorn King, POOF! the aliens into legal status and suddenly he’s doing everyone a solid.
These are truly magical times we’re living in. In fact, President Obama said in a recent interview that he’s considering taking a teaching position at Hogwarts when he leaves office in 2012.
To reiterate: in order to get one pretty unpopular piece of legislation passed, the Dems are resuscitating an even more unpopular idea as selling point to usher it through.
If only they believed in the representative republic as much as they do global warming.
