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Topic: U.S. Embassy in Yemen Attacked
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Sandy47
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posted 18 September 2008 05:59 AM
The timing is interesting. Might this be the harbinger of increased terr'ist activity in advance of the quadrennial US show-elections in November? quote:
Attackers used vehicle bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons to mount a coordinated assault on the U.S. Embassy here Wednesday, leaving 10 guards and civilians dead outside the main gate but failing to breach the walled compound.
Whew! It's good they didn't get in...but there's even better news
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No Americans were killed.
Stunning to think that no Americans were guarding the gates of a US embassy in the Middle East. Were the Marines on their lunch break?
From: Southwest of Niagara - 43.0° N 81.2° W | Registered: Oct 2005
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ElizaQ
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posted 18 September 2008 11:01 AM
'No Americans were killed'... Apparently not now, US student: husband killed in Embassy Attack quote:
Eighteen-year-old Susan El-Baneh and her husband of three weeks died holding hands, her brother said, victims of a terrorist attack Wednesday on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
American citizen Susan El-Baneh, 18, and her Yemeni husband of less than a month were killed in the attack.The Lackawanna, New York, native, a high school senior, had gone to the Arabian Peninsula country a month ago for an arranged marriage. She and her husband were in the waiting area of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, trying to find out the procedure to bring her spouse back to the United States. Susan El-Baneh was the only American killed in the attack.
Whats just as bizarre is that alot of reaction from internet land is, yes this attack is horrible but 'is this the Repub distraction?' People are just expecting that since the tide seems to be turning in the Dems favour that 'something' is going to happen.
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