Britain, US to fund Ye men anti-terror police unit
By MEERA SELVALONDON – The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama had agreed to fund a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country.
Brown’s Downing Street Office said the U.K. and the U.S. had also agreed to increase support for Yemen’s coast guard operation. Pirates operating in the waters between Somalia and Yemen have seized four ships in the last week.
Downing Street said Brown and Obama will push the U.N. Security Council to create a larger peacekeeping force for Somalia.
The British government unveiled its plans in the wake of the thwarted Christmas Day bombing of a passenger plane bound for Detroit.
Brown called last week for a high-level international meeting later this month to devise ways to counter radicalization in Yemen. He said an international approach is needed to combat the increasing influence of al-Qaida in Yemen. The terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the failed attack.
Downing Street said the government of Yemen had been consulted over the decision to boost the country’s coast guard and police operations.
The White House had no immediate comment on the specific joint police unit but broadly said Washington stood ready to work with allies to fight extremism. An official in Obama’s government welcomed Brown’s move earlier to lead an international conference on Jan. 28 to devise ways to counter radicalization in the country, the poorest in the Arab world.
Less than two weeks ago, Obama ordered the Navy to fire missiles into Yemen at suspected Al Qaida targets. Now we can add Yemen to the list Islamic countries that we are funding in this so called war on terror. Others being Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Not only are things getting worse across the world, but part of Bin Laden’s plan was to break us financially and he is succeeding in that wish. What our leaders fail to understand is that this war is forever and if we do not end Muslim immigration, it is just a matter of time until we lose. As they will never stop pushing.
So are you against the war on terror? Or do you support it but just want somebody else to pay for it??
I am against the way it is being fought. If Islam is not addressed in the West, in the end nothing overseas will matter. If we do not end Muslim immigration, it is just a matter of time until the US ends up in the same boat as the UK.
My country is more Sharia compliant than before 911 and the US and UK should not have to fund the world.
War on terror? The whole premise of fighting a tactic dooms the war on terror. Just another jizya folley throwing money at muslims. Might as well throw money in the toilet.
Auster at View from the Right has written several articles about beginning a separation of the West from Islam that don't require huge giveaways to Muslim countries. We cannot defeat terror because terror and Islam are the same. You can't have one without the other so less Islam, less terror. You discriminate everyday in making decisions, so why can you not discriminate, as a nation, and choose to reduce your country's exposure to Islam and the Muslims who promote it? Why should I allow Islam to take root around me when I know what Muslims believe is their ordained right, namely to subjugate and enslave me when they gain power?
Our government is only fighting the symptoms and not the disease, which is Islam. That is why we are losing this war.
That's an outrage. I'm for straightening the place out, but why doesn't Saudi Arabia fund it? Sheeesh!
Because our government is full of dogs and the Saudi's are their master.
THIS WAR WILL BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. IF YOU HAVE NOT FIGURED OUT BY NOW THAT THIS WAR IS ABOUT ISLAM THEN YOU DON'T GET THE MESSAGE. THIS IS ABOUT ISLAM AND NOTHING ELSE. YOU ADD TO THIS IRAN WITH NUKES AND THE PROBLEM IS 10 FOLD. WHAT WAS THE BIG REVOLT IN IRAN ABOUT IN 1979? IT WAS ABOUT ISLAM. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!! I SURE AS HELL DID NOT GET THIS OLD AND NOT LEARN SOMETHING. TO YOU YOUNGSTERS OUT THERE QUIT BICKERING AND GET TOGETHER ON THIS BEFORE WE DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY TO GET TOGETHER IN. FIRST THING TO DO IS GET THE THE KENYAN OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.