Inkwell Institute

International Studies Group

Middle East Desk

We have all heard the story of the American AQ member in Yemen that is the recruiter for the organization…that he is on some sort of list for neutralizing…..and we have all heard of the training camps in Yemen, the …..well you get the drift here…..

On to my question…..will Yemen become the newest frontline in the war on terror?

With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated.

“The White House, in an effort to turn up the heat against Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen, is considering adding the CIA’s armed Predator drones to the fight,” reported the Associated Press on Thursday, citing senior Washington officials.

“The US military’s Special Operation Forces and the CIA have been positioning surveillance equipment, drones and personnel in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia” in preparation for the stepped-up killing spree, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The Washington Post quoted intelligence officials as saying that the CIA now views Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as a “more urgent” threat than the Qaeda organization in Pakistan.

If this continues, how long will be be before troops are needed to fight the enemy properly?  Or will it be just the drone strikes to avoid the use of troops?

I feel like Nostradamus…..for I predicted an expanding role of the US in Yemen at the first of the year in my annual predictions…..and NO one needed a decoder ring to figure out what I had said…..