How much do you suppose this secret is costing taxpayers?

[sad sally]

Oh well, money can always be found when it comes to protecting Americans from dreaded terrorists, or in this case, making sure the US has control over who runs another country. Can't have enough targets for drones, or is drones for targets? Will this rush to enter into a new war every week ever end?

Secret drone base set for Persian Gulf
By KIMBERLY DOZIER
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States is building a secret CIA air base in the Persian Gulf region to target terrorists in Yemen, preparing for the possibility that an anti-American faction may take over Yemen and ban U.S. forces from hunting a lethal al-Qaida faction there, The Associated Press has learned.

The anti-al-Qaida effort in Yemen is being run by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the top U.S. military counterterrorism outfit, and the CIA provides intelligence support. JSOC forces have been allowed by the Yemeni government to conduct limited strikes there since 2009 and recently have allowed expanded strikes by U.S. armed drones and even war planes against al-Qaida targets who are taking advantage of civil unrest to grab power and territory in the Gulf country.

The new CIA base provides a backstop, if al-Qaida or other anti-American rebel forces gain control, one senior U.S. official explained. The White House already has increased the numbers of CIA officers in Yemen, in anticipation of that possibility. And it has stepped up the schedule to construct the base, from a two-year timetable to a rushed eight months.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015320517_yemen15.html?du

[DJ13]

1. Money is never important unless its spent on the poor or elderly

[sad sally]

2. Being one of America's elderly, I'm expecting any day all of us

without inheritance to leave relatives will be rounded up and a drone will take us out. That will fix the SS and Medicare shortfalls quickly.

[DJ13]

5. Save room for my wife and I on that cattle car

:scared:

[Angry Dragon]

3. Perhaps if we give Obama another Peace Prize he can start

10-15 more wars ................

I guess the plan is after this country becomes a third-world country at least the military and elected officials will be left

Funny that Saudi Arabia being one of the largest countries in the Middle East has no terrorists .......... seems strange

[sad sally]

4. Do you suppose it's because the US hasn't droned them?

Look for more terrorists:

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/us-makes-a-drone-attack-a-day-in-yemen?du

Over the past month, there have been at least seven US drone attacks in Shabwa province, where the US believes terrorist Anwar Awlaqi is hiding, a security official in Shabwa said. The last attack was on Saturday when a drone missed its target and caused no casualties. Other drones fired on Shabwa allegedly killed civilians. A drone targeting Mr Awlaqi "killed two teenage brothers", said the official.

Salem Sakheer, a Shabwa resident, said that with the Yemeni government in disarray, he expects more drone attacks. "We knew the Yemeni government would allow US to attack our areas after the death of Bin Laden," he said. "We have a weak government now and the blood of Yemenis will be spilt without any questioning."

The Yemen defence official, who requested anonymity, said he ws worried that US strategy may backfire. "United States is turning Yemen into another Pakistan," he said. He said relatives of innocent drone-attack victims will seek to avenge the deaths and resort to terror.

[Angry Dragon]

6. No ............ I believe there are many terrorists in Saudi Arabia

and the reason we have not attacked them is because of oil and bush did not attack is because of bush family being friends and business partners with the royal family