I know the source is only the times, but ... really am I seeing what I think I am reading?

Mr. Saleh told Gen. David H. Petraeus, then the American commander in the Middle East, that the United States could continue missile strikes against Al Qaeda as long as the fiction was maintained that Yemen was conducting them.

“We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours,” Mr. Saleh said, according to a cable sent by the American ambassador. At other times, however, Mr. Saleh resisted American requests. In a wry assessment of the United States, he told Daniel Benjamin, the State Department’s counterterrorism chief, that Americans are “hot-blooded and hasty when you need us,” but “cold-blooded and British when we need you.”

OF NOTE ... Mr. Saleh is the Yemeni leader thought to be friendly to America but alas ... now that "the students" are in control ... "his position has become untenable"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/middleeast/04yemen.html?_r=1&emc=na

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