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Old 1st Nov 2010, 18:19
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BBC News - Air freight from Yemen and Somalia banned

bottom of article..."Earlier, Prime Minister David Cameron, who chaired the Cobra meeting, told MPs that Britain must take every possible step to "cut out the terrorist cancer" that existed in the Arabian Peninsula."

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Whats this got to do with Military aviation...?
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Maybe because that could be the next destination for our armed forces?
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I suspect there are already interested local nations dealing with this particular problem, here's a military retaliation from last year:

BBC News - Saudi jets 'attack Yemen rebels'

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I suspect there are already interested local nations dealing with this particular problem
Are you sure that its the same thing? The Saudis reacted to aggressive tribal movements across the Yemen/Saudi border.....

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Cool. Some more foreign people we can go and kill.
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Houthis and AQAP are both against the current Yemeni Govt

BBC News - Houthi rebels 'take Yemen army position'

I expect the HOA is the next bit of sandpit for us to go play in...

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