Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:57:29 -0400
Subject: RE: {PFC-Friends} Fwd: Pakistan's Involvement in Yemen
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From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Date:04/11/2015 11:50 AM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: RE: {PFC-Friends} Fwd: Pakistan's Involvement in Yemen
From: zoglul@hotmail.co.uk
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Subject: RE: {PFC-Friends} Fwd: Pakistan's Involvement in Yemen
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:33:55 +0100
Yemen is the latest casualty of a neoconservative strategy commissioned by the US Army to 'capitalise on Sunni-Shia conflict' in the Middle East - the goal is nothing short of 'Western dominance'
Yemen is on the brink of "total collapse" according to the UN high commissioner for human rights. Saudi Arabia's terror from the air, backed by Washington, Britain and an unprecedented coalition of Gulf states, has attempted to push back the takeover of Yemen's capital Sanaa by Shiite Houthi rebels.
As Iran-backed Houthi forces have pressed into Aden, clashing with Yemeni troops loyal to exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, the US has provided live video feeds from US surveillance drones to aid with Saudi targeting. The Pentagon is set to expand military aid to the open-ended operation, supplying more intelligence, bombs and aerial refuelling missions.
Yet growing evidence suggests that the US itself, through its Gulf allies, gave the northern Houthis a green light for their offensive last September.
US advanced warning
As David Hearst reported in October 2014, the Houthi offensive was "conducted under the nose of a US military base in Djibouti" from where CIA drones operate. "The Houthis are even protecting the US embassy in Sanaa."
Hearst revealed that the Houthis had been emboldened by a quiet nod from Saudi Arabia, under the watchful eye of US intelligence.
A year earlier, then Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar met with Houthi leader Saleh Habreh in London. The Saudis wanted to mobilise the Houthis against the Islah Party, Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood branch that shared power with President Hadi, so that they "cancel each other out" in conflict.
But Islah refused to confront the Houthis, and Riyadh's green light backfired, allowing the militia to march unhindered to the capital.
The US was involved. Sources close to Hadi say they were told by the Americans about a meeting in Rome between Iranian officials and the son of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, to secure his assurances that government units loyal to Saleh would not oppose the Houthi advance.
Three years ago, Ali Abdullah Saleh was replaced by Hadi in US-Saudi-backed negotiations that granted him immunity from prosecution. Audio leaks and a UN Security Council report prove Saleh's extensive collusion with the Houthis to the extent of supervising their military operations.
Yet President Hadi, who fled in the wake of the Houthi offensive, "said he was informed of the meeting in Rome by the Americans, but only after the Houthis had captured Sanaa." [emphasis added]
The US, in other words, despite being aware of the impending Iran-backed operation, did not pass on intelligence about this to its own asset in Yemen until after the Houthis' success.
Double game
According to another source close to President Hadi, the UAE also played a key role in the Houthi operation, providing $1 billion to the Houthis through Saleh and his son Ahmad.
If true, this means in sum that US intelligence had advanced warning of the Houthi offensive and Saleh's role in it; the UAE had reportedly provided funding to Saleh for the operation; and the Saudis had personally given the Houthis the green light in hope of triggering a fight to the death with Yemen's Brotherhood.
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