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December 21, 2009

Report: Obama Ordered US Military Strike on Yemen
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ABC News is reporting the US military bombed two sites in the Middle
Eastern nation of Yemen on Thursday on direct orders from President
Obama. The strikes are seen as a major escalation of the Obama
administration’s campaign against al-Qaeda. US officials told ABC the
target of the strikes was a pair of suspected al-Qaeda training camps. A
human rights activist in Yemen said twenty-three children and seventeen
women were among the sixty-four people killed. Earlier this month,
President Obama hinted that Yemen could soon be attacked.



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