Why do people have to be so cruel? Why can't the world just get along and stop ruining other people lives and family's? WE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE A STAND AND END THIS NONSENSE!!!!!! Some people just need to come down and stop worrying about them selves, and help other people!!!!!! Jenna Denham

When will officials step up and telll it like it is. There is a religious war against the US. There is a reason that these attacks are all extremist Muslim based. Our lifestyle offends them at the deepest levels. This is the same war the Catholic Church fought in the Crusades. It is the same reason Israel is always on the defensive.

Everyone who wants to whine about the Iraq war should be thankful. Otherwise we would have had more of these attack here in the US. Just be prepared, because it will be here again. We are fighting an intelligent, pervasive and committed group with individuals who only care about getting to heaven.

Welcome to the rest of the world. Just remember, the world works like your job, upper management lives the life, the workers catch the crud.

This is a pretty lame blog by any standards. I think the "writer's" 6th grade son must have written it for an assignment in school.

Jenna...sorry, but the world won't ever get along. No president, no country, no government is ever going to get the entire world to simply put down their weapons. You have to stop hoping for a fairy tale ending; keep in mind that people in this world, like the ones who planned this bombing, want you to give up your religion, give up all the rights women have gained in the past 150 years, and want you to wear a table cloth over your body when in public. There is no negociating that. Period.

This kind of thing is happening too mutch.It appears it will never stop and forever on there will be a war of some kind.
I have never seen any bible thats states "GO FORTH AND KILL INOCENT PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF GOD"..
It sems to me the rules have changed and the meaning of religeon has changed too.
So it leaves only one thing left to do and that is fight.
It is a loose loose situation.

Funny how you Lemmings seem to consistently state that these Muslims hate our way of life. If that's the case, why don't you hear about terrorist attacks in Switzerland? Could it have anything to do with the fact that they stay the hell out of everyone's business? Could it be the fact that they don't topple and install regimes to further their political agenda? Maybe it's because they don't have bases in muslims countries to ensure that they can react militarily to ways of life that they don't subscribe to? I don't know... What I do know, is that when people use this "they hate our way of life" crap, they sound uneducated and lose every single ounce of credibility that they had.. Thanks.

Signed~
Guy who uses brain

I'm Arabic, I'm Muslim, And I'm An American. It completely enrages me when i here about bombings done by so called muslims. They're not muslim extremists, they're not muslims AT ALL. Our religion forbids murder. the only two exceptions are if you are defending your family or your country in a war. and on top of that the koran specifically sais if you kill another muslim, you will not only go to hell, but will never leave; so the people that did this bombing and killed mostly other muslims in our holy month of ramadan nonetheless have a special corner reserved for them in hell. the only 72 virgins they'll see are brand new devils created just to torture them for eternity, so PLEASE if anyone asks you or you speak about this atrotious act, speak the truth, say that people pretending to be muslims murdered those people, and my god have mercy and forgive the sins of those who died. May GOD grant peace and mercy to all who read this. thanks for listening.

One dimension of this issue that must be appreciated is the so-called "stable" governments within which this war on the west is taking place. The power structures in countries such as Yemen are more to blame than the liberal news media would like to report.
Militant islamic sympathists and the ideologies to which they subscribe exist in all levels of Islamic governments. The insepatability of church and state in these islamic states protects if not condones this extremist behavior outright. These jihadists and the affiliations to which they pledge allegiance can be compared, however pejoritively, to another organization just as irrational in its rhetoric and aims. This organization also included policemen, judges, city officials etc, that plagued our own country and its representative power base around the turn of the century- the KKK. This organization became focused on religious intolerance as a means to develop an ideology that would more effectively ensnare its devotees.
Assuming that jihadist-infested countries are willing, much less able, to erradicate this problem is ludicrous and naive. These countries are not based on the same democratic values that our own nation was built on. By design, our system established a truly accountable system able to prevent such bigotry and religious ferocity from destroying others and collaterally, ourselves.

"Bucky":
Thanks for your comment. What is posted above was written quickly in the rush that is a normal day while covering a story like this, after a sleepless night traveling to Sana'a.

Had I had the time I surely would have been able to put together a much more polished piece, but my understanding of the concept of this blog is that it is a rough, sometimes unpolished snapshot of what we experience "in the field," as the name of the blog implies.

I might add that I do indeed have a son in sixth grade, but he wasn't with me at the moment and thus is innocent of this blog's shortcomings.

Ben

One hopes that common sense will prevail on the potential bombers to stop the destruction of property and lives.
Pete
http://www.myeexpert.com

Bless your sweet heart, Jenna but Bucky's right on. People will never get along while there are differences between them that stir up deep (and bitter) emotions. Unfortunately Islam places itself directly contra to our traditional Judaio-Christian (and other) moral and ethical belief systems. The Muslim Extremist has no other goal than total world conversion to Islam and the destruction of the infidel dogs (that is, us). If you're a Christian, pray for the Second Coming of Christ; it's your only hope for ending the world situation.

Bucky your very ignorant. You obviously know nothing about Muslims, Islam is the first religion to give women rights, before any other religion. WHy dont you look into your facts. This "table clothe" is an individual choice made by every women wearing one. WHy dont you ask some one who actually wears one? Its called modesty, you dont have to show your skin to be beautiful...i guess the media has gotten to you...in this country you have to be sexy and thin...show more you get more isnt that it? Well theres more to a women than the skin she bears.
Peace

SOME HOW WE OR ISRAEL STIRED ALL THESE PROBLEMS.
WE ARE THERE IN THIER LAND AND WE WANT THEM TO CHANGE.
YOU WILL DO AS WE LIKE OR ELSE. WE CALL THEM NAMES . I JUST THINK THOSE PEOPLE WERE HAPPY THE WAY THEY WERE UNTIL
WE THE AMERICA WENT THERE AND KILLED MILLION FOR THE SAKE OF DEMOCRACY. WE COULD HAVE JUST PAY AND GET THIRE OIL , THE ARAB THEY LIKE THEIR CULTURE AND THEY ARE
HAPPY WITH THEIR WAY OF LIVING AND GOVERNING THEM SELF
WHY WE WANT THEM OTHERWISE
I AM IRAQI CHRISTIAN I LEFT IRAQ 1979 BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT
TO GO TO THE ARMY AND BECAUSE I WANTED MORE FREEDOM
SO I CAME TO AMERICA.

Every time I hear of suicide attacks, it simply hardens my view, and i have no shame in saying any poiltician who refuses to negotiate with terrorists , whatever the cause, whatever the cost would definitely get my vote. Each time concessions are made to people who would kill and destroy to achieve a political aim ANY negotiation by ANY personis only risking the lives of countless others. SO STAND FAST AND HONORABLE, or you will wear the blood of all future victims. Honor must never give in to Fear. NEVER

umm...is this the sports page blogg????

The biggest terrorist on earth is the USA. A country that steals and murders women and children across lands. The same Muslims that are on your terror list were once your buddies fighting the russians. You attacked iraq, abandoned afgn and pakistan, and continued with your path of destruction. Today your economy is ruined, and almost half the world against you. Stop your reign of terror.

if only CNN's network starts airing the program "Inside the Middle East", here on this side of the world, (if my memory serves me right, they did a show on Yemen's cultural values), maybe.. just maybe? there will be less of the Jim's..the Joe's..and the Bucky's uneducated ignorant voices, no one should take at face value..

I strongly believe that if the Americans withdraw from the Arab land and stays the hell out of everyones biusness like the swiss, the extremists will develop a nuclear bomb and Nuc the rest of the world and by doing so get Nuced in the cross fire. So if this is the case there is no surprise if some one who is realy enjoying this world , like the Americans, tried to preserve the world. The analogy applies in every walk of life starting from a bedouin arguing about the righteousness of having 7 wives.

Why would terrorist hit a country that is holding all their money in secret accounts? I dunno... maybe someone should educate themselves a little more about Swiss "neutrality". Also the Swiss have a mandatory military service for all 19 year old males.

Mr. Wedeman, I enjoy your onsite reports.

Get your facts straight, Guy who uses brain! I am an American living in Switzerland. There have been several attempts at terrorist attacks in Switzerland that have been stopped. The Swiss, characteristically, do not advertise it because they want to project the image of a very stable country. But when it happened it was on the news – once. There is a reason why every man in Switzerland is in the armed forces starting at 19 till 35 and takes his gun home.

No one is safe: the Muslim extremists are against the rest of the world. They have destroyed the largest Buddha statue in the world, in Afghanistan and discriminate against any non-moslems in China, especially buddhists. They even tried terrorist attacks during the Olympic games. They attack Hindus in India. About the fact that Jews and Cristians are Satan, I do not need to comment. They persecute and murder Baha'i's and Zoroastrians in Iran. They commit genocide against any African tribe that is not moslem in Saharan Africa (look it up – Chad, Mauritania, Niger, etc). In Indonesia, Buddhist, Hindus, Christians are discriminated against and fear for their lives. Even in Turkey they bombed a printing company that distributed bibles to the very few remaining Christians in that country.

Islam is tolerant? This is the best joke I heardin a long time. I am willing to accept this statement when I see a non-moslem as president of a moslem country. The president of India is moslem, yet moslems are a small minority in India! Yet moslems say that Hindus are inteolerant! Give me a break! When I see a Baha'i president in Iran, or a Copt president in Egypt, a Hindu president in Pakistan, or a jewish or christian prime minister in Turkey, then I will believe that Islam is tolerant. As long as churches are transformed in sports halls in Tunisia, synagogues razed to the ground in Yemen, Baha'i temples demolished in Iran, buddhist and hindu temples burned in Indonesia and Southern Thailand, I will consider myself under attack by moslems.

Is there ANY conflict in the world today that does not involve muslims? I know of only one: in Sri Lanka. So it is not the Western countries which are at fault: extremist Islam attacks anyone who does not agree with its views, even moslems.

These attacks are going to continue to happen as long as there is a person who doesent support the muslim religion , unfortunetly there is not alot we as American can do.