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Yemen update 10/07\2015.. We can no longer facilitate this war
Activist shows a cluster bomb used by Saudi warplanes in Yemen
The Yemen crisis is partly our fault. We can no longer facilitate this war
Trevor Timm
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/america-yemen-crisis-is-partly-our-fault
…………..The United States and the United Kingdom are actively aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia while the country indiscriminately kills thousands of civilians in Yemen in what amounts to war crimes by almost anyone’s definition. The two western powers, who often purport to care about democracy and human rights, are also helping the Saudi monarchy – one of the most repressive regimes on the planet – cover up those crimes at the UN. These actions are abhorrent, and it’s shameful the brewing scandal has hardly received any attention from the US political establishment or television news.
The New York Times, the rare exception to the giant shrug much of the American media has given this critical subject, recently published a harrowing front-page story on the rash of indiscriminate bombing – conducted in response to Houthi rebels who have attacked the sitting government – that has been killing scores of civilians with direct help from the US. That report came before the latest and deadliest attack on civilians yet: last week, a Saudi strike killed at least 130 innocent people at a wedding, mostly women and children. Over 500 children have been killed since the start of the strikes.
It would be hard for the US to give more assistance to Saudi Arabia as they commit these atrocities without actually dropping the bombs themselves: the Saudis are using cluster munitions (banned by treaty in the vast majority of countries around the world) supplied to them by United States defense contractors. They’re dropping those bombs using American-made fighter jets. The US military, far from being a neutral observer, is actively providing the Saudis with intelligence and logistical assistance for their air strikes. And the US is finalizing a deal to give even more weapons to the Saudis. The Obama administration has already sold them more than $90bn of military weapons over the past five years……………..
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Sources: Gaps Widening between Yemen’s Fugitive President, PM
Yemeni sources disclosed that differences between
fugitive President Mansour Hadi and his Prime Minister Khaled Bahah have
increased after the Tuesday attack on a hotel in the city of Aden where
the latter was staying.
past several months, and their differences grew noisy when a number of
Saudi officials worked out a plan to replace the fugitive president with
his premier in order to encourage the revolutionary forces back in
Yemen to work with him and allow him to start a new government.
emergency meeting to be attended by UAE and Bahraini troops as well as
forces loyal to Hadi and Bahah in an effort to bring some coordination
among its allies.
several Saudi and Emirati officers were among the casualties of the
rocket attack on Aden’s Qasr Hotel where Bahah stayed.
hotel of residence of former Yemeni prime minister in Aden killed at
least 18 of his Emirati guards.
now to restore power to Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led
aggression has so far killed at least 6,448 Yemenis, including hundreds
of women and children.
reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of
the Houthi movement.
positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening
residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/10/yemen-update-10072015-we-can-no-longer.html
