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Re: Yemeni government airstrike mistakenly targets soldiers, kills 29, official says

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isherloxi is not online. isherloxi
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02 Oct 2011 12:15 PM
(CNN) -- A Yemeni government aircraft mistakenly bombed its own troops, killing 29 soldiers, a security official told CNN on Sunday.

The incident occurred Saturday night in southern Abyan province, where Yemeni forces have been battling Islamic militants, said the Yemeni security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"The attack was an accident, and many lives were lost," said the official, who was not authorized to speak to the media.

State-run Saba News Agency denies an attack took place against soldiers in Abyan.

The soldiers were using a school on the outskirts of Zinjibar, the capital of the Abyan province, as a launching pad to strike at militants in the area when they were bombed, the official said.

Militants have been fighting government forces since May, when they announced the province was an Islamic emirate.
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awesomekitten1 is not online. awesomekitten1
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02 Oct 2011 12:17 PM
Ah, this is what poverty does. Takes away the innocence of children and turns them into violent extremists. I think it is disgusting that these people decide to fight back with guns and do nothing to end the poverty.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:22 PM
It has nothing to do with poverty. It's religious extremism.

There are so many wealthy terrorists. Many from Saudi oil families, like bin Laden.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:23 PM
"Analyses of terrorist activities in the last two decades consistently reveal that individuals who support and commit terrorist acts are likely to be more highly educated and have higher incomes than others in their society.

Harvard public policy professor Alberto Abadie concluded poor countries do not experience more terrorism than wealthy countries, after he studied wealth, political liberty and other variables in relation to terrorism. He also concluded that political liberty is a better indicator than poverty of terrorist activity.

Similarly, Alan Krueger and Jitka Maleckova have proposed that : "a careful review of the evidence provides little reason for optimism that a reduction in poverty or an increase in educational attainment would, by themselves, meaningfully reduce international terrorism."

Krueger and Maleckova draw their conclusions from a variety of sources. Their examination of a December 2001 Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey research (PCPSR), public opinion poll revealed little economic or educational class difference among Palestinians who support for armed activity against Israeli targets, and those who don't."
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:24 PM
But it's the poor who are sucked into it.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:26 PM
Yeah apparently not.
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awesomekitten1 is not online. awesomekitten1
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02 Oct 2011 12:27 PM
^^^^^^
Agreed
For example:
The Taliban is paying 40,000 in Afghan and Pakistani value to anyone who joins them. Desperate families have no choice but to accept. In the end, the cannot escape the extremists.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:29 PM
But studies have proven just the opposite.
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:29 PM
Wut? It's the rich and powerful who fund the organisations, but they're usually the people hiding in Caves, not frontline fighters.
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:30 PM
They're not frontline fighters*
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:31 PM
GRR! LRN2READ
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:34 PM
Yus, but I know for a fact the British extremists are complete dimwits.

(Yet they can still beat counter- terrorism, geez we give up our rights and still they fail)
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:35 PM
OBL and his cronies were the most educated people to live in a Rock, but they weren't the converts, they were the converters.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:39 PM
"Analyses of terrorist activities in the last two decades consistently reveal that individuals who support AND COMMIT terrorist acts are likely to be more highly educated and have higher incomes than others in their society."
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:42 PM
To what degree do they commit it? It doesn't say, it could be orchestrating the attacks, or blowing themselves up.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:43 PM
"SUPPORT AND COMMITT"

Support covers the orchestration, commit covers the COMMITTING.
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awesomekitten1 is not online. awesomekitten1
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02 Oct 2011 12:44 PM
@Warrab
I really do not believe that. There are probably thousands of people in Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and whatever other 3rd world country which lives in poverty supporting and committing terrorist acts. Either these people are not taking these polls in those 3rd world countries or the world has turned upside down.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:47 PM
I'm surry but you don't have the right just to deem evidence wrong just because you disagree with it. Find some evidence of your own.
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:48 PM
"Support covers the orchestration, commit covers the COMMITTING."

I support the Ferrari F1 Team, that doesn't mean I strap myself to an explosive device for them.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:50 PM
Support (v)
1. to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
2. to sustain or withstand (weight, pressure, strain, etc.) without giving way; serve as a prop for.
3. to undergo or endure, especially with patience or submission; tolerate.
4. to sustain (a person, the mind, spirits, courage, etc.) under trial or affliction: They supported him throughout his ordeal.
5. to maintain (a person, family, establishment, institution, etc.) by supplying with things necessary to existence; provide for: to support a family.
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awesomekitten1 is not online. awesomekitten1
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02 Oct 2011 12:51 PM
@Warrab
My evidence is the countless number of bomb blasts taking place in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the very lawless, poverty and disease stricken districts.
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 12:56 PM
"Support (v)
1. to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
2. to sustain or withstand (weight, pressure, strain, etc.) without giving way; serve as a prop for.
3. to undergo or endure, especially with patience or submission; tolerate.
4. to sustain (a person, the mind, spirits, courage, etc.) under trial or affliction: They supported him throughout his ordeal.
5. to maintain (a person, family, establishment, institution, etc.) by supplying with things necessary to existence; provide for: to support a family."

You've just undone your previous point.
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Warrab is not online. Warrab
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02 Oct 2011 12:58 PM
My evidence is the countless number of bomb blasts taking place in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the very lawless, poverty and disease stricken districts.
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Do you have any substantive evidence?

You've just undone your previous point.
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I just showed that there are several definitions of support, including "supplying with things necessary to existence; provide for"
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Yobobo10 is not online. Yobobo10
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02 Oct 2011 01:00 PM
Poo, nevermind about that...
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LibyTheFifth is not online. LibyTheFifth
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02 Oct 2011 01:10 PM
Hey thorae, the study was made in 2004 and from that time, the world's terrorism rate (especially in iraq) has rocketed
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