How are things in Yemen?

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SuburbanFarmer wrote: Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:10 pm
Speaker to Animals wrote: Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:00 pm
SuburbanFarmer wrote: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:42 pm

There’s a very high probability of getting some form of child porn downloaded into your temp files.

Not that it even needs to exist for them to charge you, but it does make things easy on them.

Well, fuck that shit.
You have to make absolutely sure that your browser deletes website content, or temporary files when you close it.

And even then, I’m sure they could find it somehow.

You have to burn the drive with acid, actually.
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What, like with a cloth?
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Yemen war binds US, allies, al-Qaida
https://apnews.com/amp/f38788a561d74ca7 ... ssion=true

ATAQ, Yemen (AP) — Again and again over the past two years, a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States has claimed it won decisive victories that drove al-Qaida militants from their strongholds across Yemen and shattered their ability to attack the West.

Here's what the victors did not disclose: many of their conquests came without firing a shot.

That's because the coalition cut secret deals with al-Qaida fighters, paying some to leave key cities and towns and letting others retreat with weapons, equipment and wads of looted cash, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. Hundreds more were recruited to join the coalition itself.

These compromises and alliances have allowed al-Qaida militants to survive to fight another day — and risk strengthening the most dangerous branch of the terror network that carried out the 9/11 attacks. Key participants in the pacts said the U.S. was aware of the arrangements and held off on any drone strikes.

The deals uncovered by the AP reflect the contradictory interests of the two wars being waged simultaneously in this southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

In one conflict, the U.S. is working with its Arab allies — particularly the United Arab Emirates — with the aim of eliminating the branch of extremists known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. But the larger mission is to win the civil war against the Houthis, Iranian-backed Shiite rebels. And in that fight, al-Qaida militants are effectively on the same side as the Saudi-led coalition — and, by extension, the United States.

"Elements of the U.S. military are clearly aware that much of what the U.S. is doing in Yemen is aiding AQAP and there is much angst about that," said Michael Horton, a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a U.S. analysis group that tracks terrorism.

"However, supporting the UAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against what the U.S. views as Iranian expansionism takes priority over battling AQAP and even stabilizing Yemen," Horton said.
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"It is now almost impossible to untangle who is AQAP and who is not since so many deals and alliances have been made," he said.

The U.S. has sent billions of dollars in weapons to the coalition to fight the Iran-backed Houthis. U.S. advisers also give the coalition intelligence used in targeting on-the-ground adversaries in Yemen, and American jets provide air-to-air refueling for coalition war planes. The U.S. does not fund the coalition, however, and there is no evidence that American money went to AQAP militants
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Gotta love it...

"It is now almost impossible to untangle who is AQAP and who is not"

So yeah, then they are right...

"there is no evidence that American money went to AQAP militants"

If there was evidence then you'd have untangled them as AQAP and know you funded them. Just sounds like typical military/CIA convenient excuses to me - "if we don't bother to investigate who's who and just toss money at them there isn't any proof we've funded the AQAP militants we're actually funding because for now, even though they're our enemies, they're fighting against our other enemy."
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That is actually normal warfare practice among Arabs.

We used to work like that too before the Enlightenment and our adoption of total warfare against one another rather than only against outsiders.

Cutting deals is valid warfare and often the best strategy.
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Speaker to Animals wrote: Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:36 pm That is actually normal warfare practice among Arabs.

We used to work like that too before the Enlightenment and our adoption of total warfare against one another rather than only against outsiders.

Cutting deals is valid warfare and often the best strategy.
That's what I got from it.

That sounds like Arabs carrying out war in Arab style.
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Dozens of Children Killed as Saudi-Led Airstrikes Hit a Bus in Yemen
http://www.time.com/5363569/yemen-saudi ... -children/
An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus driving in a busy market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing at least 50 people including children and wounding 77, Yemen’s rebel-run Al Masirah TV said citing rebel Health Ministry figures.

Al Masirah TV aired dramatic images of wounded children, their clothes and schoolbags covered with blood as they lay on hospital stretchers. The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Twitter that its team at an ICRC supported hospital in Saada received the bodies of 29 children, all under 15 years old. It also received 48 wounded people, including 30 children, it said.

Yemen’s stalemated, three-year war has killed over 10,000 people, badly damaged Yemen’s infrastructure and crippled its health system. The coalition faces widespread international criticism for its airstrikes in Yemen that kill civilians.

Impoverished Yemen, on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is now in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 22.2 million people in need of assistance.


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Thank heavens the brutal, repressive, terrorist sponsoring Saudi regime is on the Muslim travel ban list and not sold the latest military hardware.
Oh wait a minute...
Death, death, to the IDF.

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U.S. May Pull Aid From Saudi Military
http://www.oann.com/u-s-may-pull-aid-fr ... -military/
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On Wednesday multiple Yemeni journalists reporting from on the ground confirmed a new airstrike resulting in mass civilian casualties, this time a Saudi-US coalition strike scored a direct hit on a bus station in beseiged Hodeidah City.

The strike occurred the same day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced they've certified the legality of US assistance to the coalition in Yemen before Congress.
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Early unconfirmed reports counted upwards of 15 men, women, and children among the dead, with many more wounded.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09- ... nds-saudis
makes me sick to my stomach

also im currently sick with a cold so that doesnt help either