Comments on: “Al-Qaeda” in Yemen: Timeline of Strikes and Statements

By: Betty Smith

Betty Smith — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:25:54 +0000

I would argue that our horrible intelligence service’s inability to do its job, Islamphobia, the rise of the Far Right, the Patriot Act, alienation of American born Muslims in the west since 9/11, etc, also have greatly contributed to the rise of Al-Qaida (in general, and AQAP specifically finding Western recruits) AAA knows these angry alienated people are living in this country, and why they are angry, he is deliberately targeting them as recruits to carry out his mission.
Al-Qaida is not that strong or resilient- most of its members are dropouts who can barley put a sentence together in Arabic, they have no knowledge of their own history, or Islam- and keep showing the world their ignorance- the sad part is, it is our constant mistakes that are the reason they appear so strong, it even fools us, as we have no ‘experts’ on Islam, only people who hate it and are jumping at the opportunity to spread the ‘hate’- our mistakes continue to help them recruit- a true statement by Al-Malahim, after a US airstrike on Yemen in 2010 “every time you kill one of us, we recruit a hundred more to take his place.”
I would also state that having 24/7 US media dedicated to advertising for these losers is not helping anyone but Al-Qaida, Awlaqi is a nobody in the Middle East, he was not even a member of AQ back when the Ft Hood shootings took place (per Haydar Shayi), his only status came from being a pain to the US. It is simply absurd to believe that someone would give up his oath as a doctor and as a soldier, kill his colleagues based on a few ‘emails’ from some crazy Imam in a far away country- there are a million US local reasons this kind of thing would happen, including the situation in Nidhal’s country of origin- a push from some psycho overseas might have been the last straw, vs. the sole reason as we are lead to believe by our media and ‘experts’.
Maybe we need to look in the mirror and fix what is going on in America to prevent crazies recruiting angry people inside our country, then adjust our foreign policy to remove the double standards and constant vetoes of UN sanctions against certain countries, and find fair solutions that alleviate grievances, that feed terrorism. AQ will lose its momentum as a result- this type thinking is considered heresy in the US, but without it, this problem will just keep getting worse.

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By: Jane Novak

Jane Novak — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:45:37 +0000

I think its a large group of loosely associated cells, one part of which is clear on the long term plan. The long term plan isn’t new. Whatever bickering they may do among themselves, they’re still bound by ideology, “other brothers” so to speak.

By: Gibran72

Gibran72 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:36:33 +0000

This is an extremely comprehensive recap of what happened here indeed… The question I have is how this group could organize such an elaborate attack less than one month after the Tarim operation. It shows that either we are talking about a large group with dozens of militants and a strategic long-term plan or a series of different small cells which might not even be related among each others. What do you think ?

One thing is for sure, Al Qaeda is gaining strength in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. Problem is that Yemen is the weak component of the chain as it does not have enough international support to fight terror in an effective way…