...citing the example of a 23-year-old Nigerian who supposedly wanted to bomb a US bound airliner

Are you crazy? What are you, somekind of mormon or something?
THe guy gets on a plane having said afterwards that he got the bomb stuff from Yemen and you want to MAKE EXCUSES FOR HIM? I suppose your twisted logic support the blowing up on airline planes full of people because they are americans?

chill out max....no one really knows the facts. you weren't there, neither was anyone you know...so to say "supposedly" is actually quite a clever and appropriate and reasonable comment. Those that grasp a "decent" level of literary etiquette, or even a tad of journalism, will know that it is better sounding, and therefore more polite, to avoid actual assertions of fact that cannot truly be measured by those receiving your information.

ie. its easier to say "allegedly" or "supposedly" than "actually" and "for a fact", especially as we know not to trust what the mass, corporate media agenda dictates to us. BECAUSE WE WEREN'T THERE.


And also, on the subject of Yemen. The country is steeped in relative-to-new-world-order history, especially the bomb and grenade attacks against british army targets that eventually drove the UK out of Yemen years ago - which then led to devastating civil war,( which continues today in varying forms and degrees).
Its Islamic history is also interesting.
The US will find probably their biggest ever fight, and loss, if they enter Yemen as they have Irag and Afghanistan. I support those that oppose US/UK armies in their homelands. Yemen is not a place to be messed with lightly,the tribal warriors there will not fear america, as they do not fear them anywhere else. and why should they? America are as incompetent, imperialist invader as any that have ever been. They will suffer the fate of all imperialist/neo-colonialist armies and states - downfall and decay. The "system" is decaying everywhere you care to look. US is just trying to get its hands on everything it can before it really takes off,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

several months ago US, saudi and yemeni forces were bombing villages in the Yemen, and civilians have already been reported killed by the dozens.

the Saudi war planes are mostly British made Tornado IDS jets which are supplied complete with EDO MBM bomb racks.

EDO MBM in Brighton are the 'design authority' for the HDERU bomb rack used on the Tornado.

another reason to protest in Brighton on Jan 18th.

http:www.smashedo.org.uk

"chill out max....no one really knows the facts. you weren't there, neither was anyone you know...so to say "supposedly" is actually quite a clever and appropriate and reasonable comment. Those that grasp a "decent" level of literary etiquette, or even a tad of journalism, will know that it is better sounding, and therefore more polite, to avoid actual assertions of fact that cannot truly be measured by those receiving your information.

ie. its easier to say "allegedly" or "supposedly" than "actually" and "for a fact", especially as we know not to trust what the mass, corporate media agenda dictates to us. BECAUSE WE WEREN'T THERE."

But then you could apply this rule to any report or comment on the site which isn't first-hand (although of course Indymedia is not the "mass, corporate media").

And, dave, does saying "I support those that oppose US/UK armies in their homelands" mean you support the actions of the Iraqi resistance and the Taliban?