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Post by Michael Downing on Mar 23, 2015 14:24:03 GMT -5
Say it ain't so... ncrenegade.com/editorial/us-loses-500-million-in-weapons-given-to-yemen-now-in-al-qaeda-hands/US “Loses” $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen, Now In Al-Qaeda HandsNobody could have possibly foreseen that yet another US foreign diplomacy “success story” would turn out to be an epic disaster. Well, nobody, except for those who accurately predict that every US intervention abroad is now a staggering fiasco (for everyone involved except the US military-industrial complex of course). As for Yemen, the outcome was clear long ago: ◾Yemen’s US-Backed Government & President Resign ◾Obama’s “Partners” In Yemen Overthrown As Presidential Palace Falls To Local Militiamen ◾Deserted US Embassy In Yemen Immediately Seized By Armed Rebels ◾The Coup Is Complete: US Embassy In Yemen Shutting Down, Ambassador To Leave By Wednesday And, naturally, after noting that “the employees said that more than 20 vehicles were taken by the fighters after the Americans departed from Sanaa’s airport” we asked how long until we have a “tabulation of losses to US taxpayers, just like the great Islamic State ‘robbery’ of hundreds of millions in US military equipment in Iraq?” That, of course, was another epic US intervention success story.
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Post by avordvet on Mar 23, 2015 15:43:02 GMT -5
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Post by watchful on Mar 23, 2015 16:44:18 GMT -5
Support your local Militia! If none in town start one!
At least they didn't get anyone killed to pass the weapons to the Mussie brotherhood like in Libya.
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Post by Michael Downing on Mar 25, 2015 13:25:19 GMT -5
ncrenegade.com/editorial/armed-with-us-weapons-yemen-rebels-advance-on-president-as-saudi-arabia-prepares-for-war/Armed With US Weapons, Yemen Rebels Advance On President As Saudi Arabia Prepares For War It didn't take long for the local Houthi rebels to put all these weapons to good use: as Reuters reports, Houthi forces in Yemen backed by allied army units seized a key air base on Wednesday and appeared poised to capture the southern port of Aden from defenders loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, local residents said. As a reminder this is the second time the Yemeni president, so close to Obama, will be forced to uproot and get out of Dodge, after his prompt "evacuation" from the capital Sanaa a month ago: The Houthis and their military allies later advanced to within 40km (25 miles) of the city, where Hadi has been holed up since fleeing the group's stronghold in the capital Sanaa last month. Yemen's slide toward civil war has made the country a crucial front in mostly Sunni Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran, which Riyadh accuses of sowing sectarian strife through its support for the Houthis. Sunni Arab monarchies around Yemen have condemned the Houthi takeover as a coup and have mooted a military intervention in favor of Hadi in recent days. The situation in Yemen is "fluid" but not looking good for the status quo: in Aden, heavy traffic clogged Aden as parents brought schoolchildren home and public sector employees obeyed orders to leave work. Eyewitnesses said pro-Hadi militiamen and tribal gunmen were out in force throughout the city This happens as the northern militia alongside army units loyal to Yemen's powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh have driven back an array of tribal fighters, army units and southern separatist militiamen loyal to embattled president Hadi. The Iranian-backed Houthi Shi'ite militants took control of Sanaa in September and seized the central city of Taiz at the weekend as they move closer to Aden. Houthi leaders have said their advance is a revolution against Hadi and his corrupt government, and Iran has blessed their rise as part of an "Islamic awakening" in the region. Yemeni officials denied reports that Hadi had fled Aden. www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-25/armed-us-weapons-yemen-rebels-advance-president-saudi-arabia-prepares-war
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Post by Michael Downing on Mar 25, 2015 21:17:42 GMT -5
ncrenegade.com/editorial/another-middle-east-war-breaks-out-us-supported-saudi-arabia-begins-bombing-yemen/Another Middle East War Breaks Out: US-Supported Saudi Arabia Begins Bombing Yemen Earlier today we reported that, on very short notice, Saudi Arabia had moved heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, “raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict.” In other words, Saudi Arabia was preparing for war. Shortly thereafter, but before Yemen’s president bravely fled the country over fears of the Houthi rebel advance, Yemen’s foreign minister called for Arab military intervention against advancing Shiite rebels. As we explicitly warned, “the conflict risked spiraling into a proxy war with Shi’ite Iran backing the Houthis, whose leaders adhere Shi’ite Islam, and Saudi Arabia and the other regional Sunni Muslim monarchies backing Hadi.” Moments ago all these warnings were borne out when Al-Arabiya reported that the latest middle-east war is now official after Saudi Arabia and Arab Gulf States had launched a bombing campaign against Yemen.
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Post by watchful on Mar 26, 2015 8:46:17 GMT -5
Support your local Militia! If none in town start one!
The Sunni vs Shiite war has been going on since the collapse of the Turkish caliph in the early 1900's. The best place for the US and the other non-muslims is away and uninvolved. Since Saudi Arabia have no standing army or other force the attacks are by either US or French Merc's flying our equipment or British equipment.
Someone is trying to set up a guard for the Gulf.
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Post by Michael Downing on Mar 26, 2015 10:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Mar 26, 2015 19:21:10 GMT -5
The current foreign policy reminds me of Abbott and Costello with "Whose on first'... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fgLet's see we are supporting Iran's effort in Iraq against ISIS but we are supporting the Saudis in their effort against Iranian supported militants in Yemen. Yupper it all makes sense to me and it will only get worse very soon... rt.com/news/244373-iran-yemen-saudi-airstrikes/Iran, Russia demand immediate halt to Saudi-led intervention in Yemen Iran and Russia have called on Saudi Arabia to halt airstrikes on Yemen as supporters of Yemen’s ruling Houthi militants stage demonstrations throughout the country, protesting against the Saudi-led military intervention. Speaking to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Russia’s Vladimir Putin called for an "immediate cessation of military activities" in Yemen and increased efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis, the Kremlin said in a statement on Thursday. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that military operations against Yemen will only lead to further destabilization of the region, which has fallen under Houthi control after an onslaught of increased violence in recent months. “We demand an immediate stop to the Saudi military operations in Yemen,” he said in an interview with Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam news network on Thursday. “We will spare no effort to contain the crisis in Yemen.”
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