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December 28, 2009

Sen. Lieberman: “If We Don’t Act Preemptively, Yemen Will Be Tomorrow’s War”
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Appearing on Fox News Sunday, independent Senator Joseph Lieberman
suggested the United States should preemptively attack Yemen in light of
the failed airline bombing.

Sen. Lieberman: “I was in Yemen in August. And we have a growing
presence there, and we have to, of Special Operations, Green Berets,
intelligence. We’re working well with the government of President Saleh
there. I leave you with this thought that somebody in our government
said to me in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Iraq was yesterday’s war.
Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be
tomorrow’s war.”

In related news on Yemen, the New York Times reports the CIA sent
several of its top field operatives with counterterrorism experience to
Yemen a year ago. At the same time, some of the most secretive Special
Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in
counterterrorism tactics.



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