Does no one see the absurdity of this all? What does GW think? One day this guy is on the most wanted list, the next we're buddy buddy with a terrorist supporting state! Am I missing something? Did someone unload a pixie dust bomb last night?

I have an Army buddy (attack helicopter pilot)who had a video of Iraq, not sure if it was a Predator, those are huge actually, there are much smaller ones. This one circled a car on the ground (nightime) and these guys had no clue it was there. They were unloading explosives in a dirt road intersection. Another car drove up and they started loading that trunk.

They probably used the unmanned plane to laser the target and actually dropped the 500lb bomb from miles away at 30,000 feet... about 2 seconds before it hit you can see they hear it coming and started to boogie. Ooops! Too late, it blew that intersection to smithereens.

A couple of the bad guys were moving so they hit it again, a waste of a good bomb in my opinion.

Yemen is a dangerious country people "go missing" all the time, tragic really.:D

I guess they just moved ahead of Iran on the To Invade list.

I'm wondering what the UN's stance on this is. Yemen does not need to be invaded cutting them out of the IMF will strangle them in years.

IFF ...

If the perp is truly tribal and he has actually sworn fealty to the Yemeni leader as reported, then he is no longer a threat. Within that cultural context, he has behaved properly against his enemies. By publicly renouncing his fealty to Bin Laden and the goals of Al Qaeda, he has switched sides from active enemy to a more or less neutral party.

Also within his tribal view is the fact that he has not satisfied his enemy's desire for justice (that would be us). Now if we were to play by their tribal rules we would demand that he also swear peace with us (he can only have fealty to one leader at a time so we would get nowhere requesting that). If he received our demand he would then open negotiations for terms of peace. If both parties agreed to some final terms then he would no longer be a threat, so long as we upheld our side of the bargain.

That's how a feudal culture works.

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It seems a lot like Yemen made some kind of NIMBY bargain.

Yup... keep an eye on him and, if need be, let the dark side take care of him.

My tin foil hat tells me that DF is more interested in a capture than a trip to Paradise.

Much like the Bosnia war criminals. Has anyone ever seen the show about DF snatching the bad guys deep behind enemy lines, its like a Clancy novel.

It may be on Stage6 or something.