Report: Yemeni Terrorists Gave Plenty of Warnings (sound familiar?)

Report: Yemeni Terrorists Gave Plenty of Warnings

By Jeff Stein | September 18, 2008 4:04 PM


The terrorists who assaulted the U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Wednesday morning sent plenty of signals that they were planning a major attack, according to a respected West Point counterterrorism journal.

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point issued its study of Al Qaeda-connected Yemeni terrorists in its monthly journal, The Sentinel, yesterday, within hours of the two-stage attack on the embassy, which left 16 dead.

In a quickly updated article that had been largely written well in advance of the attack, Princeton scholar Gregory D. Johnsen wrote that "the September 17 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sana`a, which left more than a dozen people dead ... while shocking, was not necessarily unexpected."

Warnings abounded, Johnsen said, including a statement posted by the "Soldiers' Brigades of Yemen," an al Qaeda front, threatening attacks in retaliation for the death of Hamza al-Q`uyati, its "leading operative," who was killed in a government raid Aug. 10.

The proof, the statement said in a common Islamist phrase, "will be in what you see and not what you hear." Then, on September 9, a teaser was posted ... indicating that the fifth issue of al-Qa`ida's Sada al-Malahim journal was due to be released in the coming days. The combination of these two indicators should have triggered warnings in Yemen, as during the past year al-Qa`ida has developed a pattern of linking its attacks to its rhetoric....

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http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2008/09/report-yemeni-terrorists-gave.html

And in Yemeni society, that is the same as putting one's testicles on the chopping block.

Those people were sacrificed. They died for nothing.