Sunday, June 14, 2009

SAN`A, Yemen —  Yemen has arrested a Saudi man suspected of financing Al Qaeda cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.

The official, who did not give an exact date of the arrest, said that authorities captured “the biggest and the most influential” money provider for Al Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, a Saudi, was in charge of financing attacks in the two neighboring countries, added the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.

The announcement indicated that Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists are still actively attempting to destabilize the Saudi monarchy that holds a quarter of the world’s proven oil reserves, as well as neighboring Yemen, the region’s poorest nation.

Bin Alwan has been charged with forming a terrorist group in Yemen and financing its activities.

Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, had long been a haven for Islamic militants and was the scene of the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors.

Yemen is also the Arab world’s poorest nation — and one of its most unstable — making it fertile territory for Al Qaeda to set up camp.

  Thursday ended with oil being up-again.  The price of a barrel of oil went up between $5-$6.  The reason that the Associated Press is crediting it for is the rising tensions with Russia and a weaker dollar.  As we all know Russia is a bully. A mean bully and most creditable analysts say that the tensions are over oil and the pipeline in Georgia. So this leads me to believe that congress needs to act now! When every time Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and North Korea do defiant acts of aggression, the price of a barrel of oil goes up, what does this say to America? I don’t know about the rest of America but I am getting dizzy with the yo yo effect the barrel is going through. Why are we putting ourselves through this when we have so much domestic oil that it could last generations? Congress needs to have an emergency session to vote on this issue now!

 The junior senator is also touting that McCain is out of touch.  Now you know I could not let that one go did ya? 

Barack Obama is stating that McCain is out of touch because he has 7 homes.  Um u hoo!!! Obama how much did your family make last year? Yes that is right about $4 million. With is association with Rev Wright and Bill Ayers and Father Flager who is really out of touch?  When he votes against a bill that would give innocent babies a chance to live when a similar bill pass with major majority in the federal government, who is out of touch?  He claims that the bill was insufficient in protecting Roe vs. Wade. Oh give me a break!  This is plain and simple; when a baby survives a botched abortion don’t you think it has rights?  It is living, breathing, has a heartbeat outside the womb.  Obama who wants to be president of the United States can’t even answer a question about when they have rights, so why is he voting on it?  He states it is above his “pay grade”.  And this man wants to be president! Are not basic rights a prerequisite of understanding, part of being a president? Moreover is this not the man who said that Americans are clinging to there guns and religion? Hmmm in times of stress I go to religion don’t you?  Obama claims to be a Christian but he criticizes Christians for clinging to their religion in times of stress.  Again who is out of touch?  And finally yes we are in hard economic times so why the heck is Obama’s plans to raise your taxes and all sorts of ways?  Out of touch? Obama better take a hard look in the mirror, it is he who is out of touch. Please make note I could go on with this part of the post forever but for the sake of time called an end, heaven sakes we don’t want the left to call me bitter.

 Back to Russia. Darn it why don’t they just comply with the cease fire.  I don’t think getting hostages and digging trenches and building fortifications in Georgia was the idea of the deal. Also I don’t think that this is the best time for them to act aggressively towards US ally Poland just because they signed a missile defense deal with US to protect themselves from Iran.

 And some news from the front.  Good news from the War on Terror. Reuter’s is reporting that: The United States and Iraq are close to a deal extending the presence of U.S. troops beyond 2008, but any timetable for their withdrawal must be “feasible,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday. Well this is indeed good news.  However America can not let there guard down we must be diligent in their War on Terror.  Still today we have people/radicals who want Americans dead.  Don’t forget Sept 11^th.

And last I find this very funny.   Mayor Bloomberg  is backing off his idea to put windmills on city bridges and rooftops.  I guess the idea of bird corpses everywhere was not a good idea.

Oh how opinions of political “leaders” can change……………

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