Sirius Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama "expressed concern" over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom Obama said "had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP." It turned out that Shaye had not yet been released at the time of the call, but Saleh did have a pardon for him prepared and was ready to sign it. It would not have been unusual for the White House to express concern about Yemen's allowing AQAP suspects to go free. Suspicious prison breaks of Islamist militants in Yemen had been a regular occurrence over the past decade, and Saleh has been known to exploit the threat of terrorism to leverage counterterrorism dollars from the United States. But this case was different. Abdulelah Haider Shaye is not an Islamist militant or an Al Qaeda operative. He is a journalist.While Shaye, 35, had long been known as a brave, independent-minded journalist in Yemen, his collision course with the US government appears to have been set in December 2009. On December 17, the Yemeni government announced that it had conducted a series of strikes against an Al Qaeda training camp in the village of al Majala in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, killing a number of Al Qaeda militants. As the story spread across the world, Shaye traveled to al Majala. What he discovered were the remnants of Tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs, neither of which are in the Yemeni military’s arsenal. He photographed the missile parts, some of them bearing the label “Made in the USA,” and distributed the photos to international media outlets. He revealed that among the victims of the strike were women, children and the elderly. To be exact, fourteen women and twenty-one children were killed. Whether anyone actually active in Al Qaeda was killed remains hotly contested. After conducting his own investigation, Shaye determined that it was a US strike. The Pentagon would not comment on the strike and the Yemeni government repeatedly denied US involvement. But Shaye was later vindicated when Wikileaks released a US diplomatic cable that featured Yemeni officials joking about how they lied to their own parliament about the US role, while President Saleh assured Gen. David Petraeus that his government would continue to lie and say “the bombs are ours, not yours.”Seven months after the Majala bombing, in July 2010, Sharaf and Shaye were out running errands. Sharaf popped into a supermarket, while Shaye waited outside. When Sharaf came out of the store, he recalls, “I saw armed men grabbing him and taking him to a car.” The men, it turned out, were Yemeni intelligence agents. They snatched Shaye, hooded him and took him to an undisclosed location. The agents, according to Sharaf, threatened Shaye and warned him against making further statements on TV. Shaye’s reports on the Majala bombing and his criticism of the US and Yemeni governments, Sharaf said, “pushed the regime to kidnap him. One of the interrogators told him, ‘We will destroy your life if you keep on talking about this issue.’” Eventually, in the middle of the night, Shaye was dumped back onto a street and released. “Abdulelah was threatened many times over the phone by the Political Security and then he was kidnapped for the first time, beaten and investigated over his statements and analysis on the Majala bombing and the US war against terrorism in Yemen,” says Shaye’s lawyer, Abdulrahman Barman. “I believe he was arrested upon a request from the US.”
Anduril Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Obama je klasicni ratni zlocinac i tako ga treba i tretirati. Sto je jos gore, neki republikanski kandidat tipa Romni ili Gingric bi bili jos gori.
Roger Sanchez Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Opet je malo počeo etiopsko-eritrejski ratić.
borris_ Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) Etiopijski predsjednik i Eritejski su blizi rodjaci Edited March 15, 2012 by borris_
Кристофер Лумумбо Posted March 16, 2012 Author Posted March 16, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/vladimir-putin-tiger-encounter_n_1352911.htmlcarski :D
zorglub Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Zamišljam hella-like govor o lažima, podmetanjima i smicalicama pro-tajkunske ekipe...
Аврам Гојић Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Zamišljam hella-like govor o lažima, podmetanjima i smicalicama pro-tajkunske ekipe...+1
Кристофер Лумумбо Posted March 16, 2012 Author Posted March 16, 2012 (edited) koje pro-tajkunske ekipe? mislim, u rusiji ih ima vise. :D Edited March 16, 2012 by kojot
Hella Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 (edited) c, c, c... Ubio bejzbol palicom u džamijiIzvor: Tanjug petak 16.03.2012 | 21:17Pariz -- Napadač sa bejzbol palicom ubio je jednu osobu a drugu teško povredio u džamiji u francuskom gradu Aras na severu zemlje, saopštila je policija.Napadač je uhapšen posle incidenta a policija je saopštila da se radi o čoveku sa psihičkim problemima, prenosi AFP. "U pitanju je mladi musliman koji je dolazio u tu džamiju i poznato je da je neuravnotežen", izjavio je regionalni predstavnik muslimanske verske zajednice u Parizu.http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2012&mm=03&dd=16&nav_category=78&nav_id=591796 Edited March 17, 2012 by Hella
Takeshi Posted March 17, 2012 Posted March 17, 2012 otkriven identitet americkog vojnika koji je ubio 16 civila u avganistanu: LAKE TAPPS, Wash. — Neighbors of a Washington state man accused of gunning down 16 Afghan women and children in a nighttime rampage describe him as a family man, playing with his two kids outside his home.
steins Posted March 21, 2012 Posted March 21, 2012 Bivši oficir CIA Brajan Latel izjavio da je predsednik Kube Fidel Kastro znao da će Li Harvi Osvald ubiti Džona Kenedija i da nije ništa učinio da to spreči.konačno - znamo tko je ubio Kenedija. "Osvald je uleteo u ambasadu, zahtevajući vizu. Kada je njegov zahtev odbijen, povikao je 'Ubiću Kenedija zbog ovoga'", rekao je Čajlds.
Hella Posted March 22, 2012 Posted March 22, 2012 Klintonova: Hrvatska lider u regionupa ne patimo mi od sujete, znamo da su to neke standardne floskule da bi se zadrigle bravčine u stanovništvu osokolile na evroatlantske integracije.srbija:"Naglasila sam da smo zainteresovani za mir i prosperitet ovog regiona i ohrabreni smo time što se mnoge zemlje u regionu kreću putem integracije sa EU, ali ni jedna zemlja nije uložila više napora od Srbije. Članstvo u EU treba da pomogne transformaciju srpske ekonomije i povuče čitav region prema Evropi."rupčaga:"Kosovo je možda mlada država, ali vi imate budućnost koja obećava, i Sjedinjene Države su posvećene podršci nezavisnom, suverenom i multietničkom Kosovu", poručila je ona.
Shan Jan Posted March 22, 2012 Posted March 22, 2012 Vojska izvršila državni udar u Malijua bas sam hteo da idem tamo uskoro <_<
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