9 American's killed in Afghanistan...

I'm confused. My source is ABC Evening News. How do 9 American soldiers (okay, 8 soldiers and a contractor) get killed "exectution style"? I've always been under the impression that exectution style involves having the victim kneel and then shoot them at close range in the back/bottom of the head. I can hardly imagine 14 armed soldiers consenting to this. Maybe I have my definition of execution style incorrect, or else someone's facts are wrong. If the man had them line up, how was there no time for someone to get a shot of their own off? And how weird is it that though all the American's died, the Afghani's there were only wounded (and to what degree)? It's just odd.

Yemen

I'm watching some of the older videos on my hulu account that are about to expire--namely Colbert and Jon Stewart. Of course, the top news for January 4th or so was still the underwear bomber. Here's what I don't understand:

WHY THE HECK IS YEMEN A NEW COUNTRY OF TERROR?!?!? DOESN'T ANYONE REMEMBER 2000 WHEN THAT WAS THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF THE BOMBERS OF THE USS COLE?!?!? Or is that only relevant to one small 12 year old who remembers seeing the faces of the 17 dead on the front page of the paper and reading the stories of their lives. How about walking into a classroom and having a teacher mention that she had taught one of the 5 dead who grew up in and around Norfolk? I'm actually disappointed by Stewart and Colbert to not have picked up on this--it makes me sadder that the 17's deaths were in vain. RIP.