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  1. #511
    A high-ranking Yemeni intelligence official injured in a Huthi rebel drone attack on the country's largest air base died of his wounds on Sunday, medical sources said.Intelligence Brigadier General Saleh Tamah was wounded on Thursday in a strike on a military parade in Al-Anad air base, in government-held Lahij province some 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Yemen's second city Aden.
    Medical sources told AFP that Tamah underwent several surgeries in a hospital in Aden but died Sunday morning.
    At least seven loyalists -- including Tamah -- were killed and 11 injured in Thursday's incident, which threatens to hamper United Nations-led peace efforts.
    Among those injured were Yemen's deputy chief of staff Saleh al-Zandani, senior army commander Fadel Hasan and Lahij governor Ahmad Abdullah al-Turki.
    Turki and Zandani were transported to Saudi Arabia for treatment, a Yemeni official told AFP.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/top-yemen-bra...065709083.html
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    The U.N. envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, confirmed the resignation of the chief observer over the al-Hudaydah cease-fire, Patrick Cammaert, during this week’s talks in Sanaa and Riyadh, news outlets Al-Masdar and Aden Al Ghad reported Jan. 24. Upon meeting with both leaders in Riyadh, Yemeni President Abd Rabboh Mansour Hadi and his team voiced concerns about the implementation of the cease-fire in the key port city.

    More at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/situa...-fire-observer
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    Yemen's deputy chief of staff died Sunday from wounds sustained last month in a drone attack by Huthi rebels on the country's largest air base, the information minister said.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-yemen...160840817.html
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  6. #514
    Morocco is no longer participating in operations against Houthi rebels in the Yemeni civil conflict, according to a Moroccan official, the Associated Press reported Feb. 7.

    More at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/situa...oalition-yemen
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  7. #515
    Yemen’s Saudi-backed government has plans to export crude oil at a rate of 75,000 bpd this year, according to oil minister Aws Abdullah al-Awd, who spoke to Reuters.
    “We will maintain production from four blocks and are planning to build a pipeline to Arab Sea (Arabian Sea) to resume exports from these blocks,” Al-Awd said. The plans also involve raising crude oil production to 110,000 bpd this year. The Saudi-backed government controls Yemen’s oil and gas fields, while the Houthi rebels supported by Iran holds the country’s capital, Sanaa, and an oil terminal on Yemen’s west coast.

    More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...This-Year.html
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  8. #516
    Several Congressmen believe that they can win votes by insinuating that they want to block the Trump administration’s support for the genocide in Yemen.

    The Trump administration threatens to veto a bid by the toothless Congress to end the US’s military support for the coalition's onslaught in Yemen.
    The Trump administration claimed Yesterday that the resolution harms the regional relations and efforts to halt “violent extremism”: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/...udi-resolution
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  10. #518
    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    Several Congressmen believe that they can win votes by insinuating that they want to block the Trump administration’s support for the genocide in Yemen.

    The Trump administration threatens to veto a bid by the toothless Congress to end the US’s military support for the coalition's onslaught in Yemen.
    The Trump administration claimed Yesterday that the resolution harms the regional relations and efforts to halt “violent extremism”: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/...udi-resolution
    NYT
    House Votes to Halt Aid for Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/u...di-arabia.html


    House voted 248-to-177 on Wednesday to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, a defiant and rare move to curtail presidential war powers that underscored anger with President Trump’s unflagging support for Saudi Arabia even after the killing of a Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi.

    Democrats demanded Senate action.

    “This is their opportunity to send a message to the Saudis that their behavior on Khashoggi and their flagrant disregard of human rights is not consistent with the American way of doing business and not in line with American values,” Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, the bill’s lead sponsor, said in an interview, adding that he was “relieved” that Congress finally took action on the resolution, which he first introduced in 2017.

    ►Senate in December passed a parallel resolution, 56 to 41, but that measure died with the last Congress after the House Republican leadership blocked a vote.

    A Senate confirmation of the Yemen resolution could prompt Mr. Trump to issue the first veto of his presidency.

    It would come after Republicans have registered their unhappiness over other foreign policy issues, such as the president’s plan to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan and his threats to pull the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.



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  11. #519
    In 2016 and 2017, the Pentagon, despite repeated denials, was involved in providing intelligence and training to the coalition for combat in Yemen, including to United Arab Emirates troops.
    This was exposed by documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

    The Pentagon had also conducted air-to-air refuelling for coalition aircraft, but in November claimed it would stop: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/d...port-476084018


    In January, the Trump administration approved another $195 million in upgrades to Saudi Arabia’s missile defense system.
    A fellow of the Brookings Institution claimed, when he was still working for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, that since March 2015 there have been 133 Houthi missiles intercepted from Yemen: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ori...khashoggi.html


    Residents of the port city of Hodeidah are trying to find food in the rubbish, while many have died after their houses were bombed.
    Yemenis are so desperate that they sell their underage daughters to dirty rich men or sell their organs so they can eat.

    Yemeni doctor Ashwaq Moharram explained:
    We have people scrabbling through garbage tips to eat. They can’t even look for food in their neighbours’ waste, as all of them are poor and have no supplies.

    Marriages have become a trade. If someone is in debt due to poverty, hunger, and illness; they repay the debt by offering the 12 or 13 years old daughters. Their husbands are sometimes 70 years old.

    Some people have even started selling their organs, like kidneys. You can now see adverts. They travel to Jordan, Cairo, or India to undergo the surgeries.
    More than 60,000 Yemenis have been killed as a direct result of the coalition bombs that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and pushed the country to the brink of famine.

    According to the media in December a deal was signed in Sweden, under which all fighting would in the provice of Hodeidah would stop and the Houthis would hand over the port city of Hodeidah to the UN. This deal was a complete failure as fighting has continued, including bombs from the Saudi airforce: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8757491.html


    How many Yemeni have died already? If the warnings since 2016 that Yemen is on the brink of famine are true, the death tole could easily already be in the millions!!!
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  12. #520
    I have officially hung the retched carcass of this atrocity around the neck of Donald Trump.
    He could and should have done something by now and he hasn't.
    His acquiescence is proof of his depravity and complicity. Fuuck him. srsly. Pence and Fat Mike too.


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    Yemen's government and Huthi rebels have agreed on the first phase of a pullback of forces from the key city of Hodeida, in a deal the United Nations described Sunday as important progress.The redeployment from Hodeida is a critical part of a ceasefire deal reached in December in Sweden that calls on the government and Huthis to move forces away from ports and parts of city.
    The fragile truce deal marks the first step toward ending a devastating war that has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
    Following two days of talks in Hodeida city, the government and Huthis finalized a deal on the first phase of the pullback and also agreed in principle on the second phase, a UN statement said.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/yemen-sides-a...215641359.html
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    Walter Jones and the Vote to End US War on Yemen

    Written by Ron Paul
    Monday February 18, 2019


    In a fitting legacy for my friend Walter Jones, Jr. who passed away last week, the US House made history by voting in favor of H.J.Res. 37, a resolution “Directing the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.” As George O’Neill wrote in the American Conservative magazine this week, the historic 248-177 victory for a bill demanding the end of the US participation in the nearly five year Saudi war of aggression “reflects how many hearts and minds were influenced by the late Congressman's tireless efforts.”

    Walter Jones did not care who controlled Congress. He was happy to join forces with any Member to end the senseless US global military empire, which sends thousands of young men and women off to patrol foreign borders, overthrow foreign governments, and needlessly put themselves at risk in missions that have nothing to do with the safety and security of the United States.

    US participation in the Saudi war on Yemen is a classic example of the abuse of the US military that made Walter Jones most angry. When the Saudis decided in 2015 that they wanted their puppet to be Yemen’s president, they launched a brutal and inhuman war that many call the worst humanitarian disaster of our time. Millions face starvation as Saudi bombs and US sanctions combine to create a hell on earth that is unrelated in any way to US national security.

    Why this ongoing support for Saudi death and destruction in Yemen? Washington’s neocons have successfully promoted the lie that the Saudi attack on Yemen is all about preventing Iran from gaining more strength in the Middle East. Ironically it was the neocon-backed US attack on Iraq in 2003 that provided the biggest boost for Iranian influence in the region. Now, after Iraq’s “liberation,” Baghdad’s ties to Tehran are closer than ever.

    Meanwhile, who exactly are we supporting in Yemen? Even CNN, normally a big backer of US military actions overseas, has noticed something funny about US participation in the Saudi war on Yemen. As a CNN investigation found this month, “Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners have transferred American-made weapons to al Qaeda-linked fighters, hardline Salafi militias, and other factions waging war in Yemen, in violation of their agreements with the United States.” Does that sound like we are on the side of the “good guys” in this battle? We are helping the Saudis arm al-Qaeda? Is this really a smart move?

    So we should be encouraged that Walter Jones’ legacy is being honored in the House vote to end the US participation in the Yemen war. While US “humanitarian” aid is being used as a weapon for regime change in Venezuela, the warmongers in Washington have never lifted a finger to help those suffering from a real genocide in Yemen.

    If the Yemen War Powers resolution passes the Senate, which is likely, Congress will have provoked the first veto from President Trump. Such a veto should not discourage us. Even the strongest army cannot stop an idea whose time has come. Ending senseless US wars is an idea whose time has come. We can thank Walter Jones for his role in making it so.
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  16. #523
    The following shocking video shows the severely malnourished 12-year-old girl Fatima Qoba, who weighs only 10 kilograms (22 pounds).
    You can see the cheekbones sticking out of her face...


    The family of 11 children and their father fled their home near the Saudi Arabian border and are now dying under a tree. The head of the clinic, Makiah al-Aslami, said Fatima is “skin and bones due to the hard life of her family” .
    See her legs, skin over bones...


    Al-Aslami expects that the devastation will become even worse.

    The UN again announced that the Houthis have agreed to withdraw from the port of Hodeidah (does anybody still believe this BS?): https://www.rt.com/news/451854-yemen...g-girl-fatima/


    To keep gullible fool´s believing in our politrics that support the genocide, Rep. Ro Khanna declared that we should all believe that her bill makes us "closer than ever to ending our complicity in this humanitarian catastrophe".
    Please do nothing while Yemenis are dying by the thousands a week...

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) just inked $3.2 billion worth of weapons with western arms companies at just the first 2 days of an arms expo.
    This includes $353 million and more than $1.6 billion for Patriot missiles and launchers from American company Raytheon.
    Does this sound like it´s “ending”?

    Recently Amnesty reported on the UAE transferring arms to “terrorist groups” (that supposedly are even worse than their army):
    Emirati forces receive billions of dollars' worth of arms from Western states and others, only to siphon them off to militias in Yemen that answer to no-one and are known to be committing war crimes.
    https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...-arms-deal-uae
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  17. #524
    WFP food aid turns out to be rotten, infested with worms
    https://www.yemen-rw.org/wfp-food-ai...ed-with-worms/



    Yemen Press Agency received a telephone call from one of Sanaa’s officials inviting them to visit the two schools, photographing the contents of the World For Program stores that have only recently arrived in Yemen as aid to children, women and hundreds of thousands of hungry people, and has concluded that these food quantities expired and eaten by thousands of worms.

    The scandals unfolded as the poisonous rotted food was distributed to the Yemeni people and transmitted among Yemenis by certain global “humanitarian advocates” under the guise of aid and relief.

    The correspondent of the Yemeni Press Agency has testified that there are large quantities of flour, sugar and vegetables that are unfit for human use, as they are infected by huge amount of skunk worms. (intestinal parasite)

    “The quantities damaged in only these two stores of the program alone, exceed 200 tons of flour, and nearly 4,000 bags of sugar,”

    “This food makes the current situation of Yemenis worse, especially since tens of thousands of families are in dire need of this assistance because the war has robbed them of the source of their livelihood. Their dependence on these foods may force them to consume this food them even if it is not fit for consumption”, al-Faqih said.
    “This is a serious health threat, to which vast segment of society will fall victim.”

    The World Food Program (WFP) said in late 2018 that the humanitarian aid needs in Yemen will reach 14 million human cases in 2019. This means double of the number for the past year, when about eight million Yemenis were threatened with malnutrition, especially children and the elderly, and the number of children under five who have died of malnutrition reached 80,000.

    The suffering of Yemenis is further exacerbated by the ongoing war and blockade, which have caused displacement of thousands, the disruption of jobs and the collapse of the local currency.

  18. #525
    Jeremy Hunt is the first British foreign secretary to visit Yemen, the port of Aden, in more than 20 years. Hunt unashamedly showed his support for the genocide by the Britain-supported “coalition”.
    Hunt told the world from the UAE that 20 million people are facing starvation and blamed the Houthis!

    According to Hunt...
    Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the rest of the coalition in December in Stockholm agreed to stop the assault of Hodeidah. In return, the Houthis supposedly would hand over Hodeidah to the UN and/or Yemen government.
    Hunt lies that the coalition stopped the assault as they continued. Furthermore I add that it is highly unlikely that the Houthis, who have succesfully defended Hodeidah, would now hand it over.
    Hunt said:
    The Houthis need to do their side of the bargain. And that needs trust and it needs courage and it isn't easy in a situation like we're in.
    Patience is wearing very thin. And we've just got to really make sure everyone understands - that's why I came over here - that... this ceasefire will not last if all parties don't honour the agreements they signed up to.

    And that would be a terrible humanitarian tragedy if the war restarted.
    This lying Hunt also forgot to mention that there has never been a ceasefire at all, but bizarrely talks about a “fragile ceasefire” and now claims that it is all the fault of those horrible Houthis: https://news.sky.com/story/yemen-cea...-hunt-11654727

    It is difficult to find any government worse than “Her Majesty´s” den of robbers...

    After many, many stories that “more than 10,000” Yemenis have died, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says “more than 80,000” under the age of 5 have died of starvation in Yemen since the “coalition” intensified their assault on Yemen nearly 4 years ago.

    Guterres said:
    Children did not start the war in Yemen, but they are paying the highest price. Some 360,000 children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, fighting for their lives every day. And one credible report put the number of children under 5 who have died of starvation at more than 80,000.

    Almost 18 million Yemenis still do not have adequate access to safe drinking water or sanitation.
    https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/...-UN-chief-says

    For some reason Guterres “forgot” to mention that the “coalition” has intentionally bombed the drinking water infrastructure, and that UNICEF already in December 2016 noted that at least one child under the age of 5 dies every 10 minutes of “preventable causes”. That´s more than 100,000 and since then the death rate has even increased.
    And that UNICEF in 2017 predicted that 150,000 children could die by the end of that year.
    And on top of that more than 75,0000 Yemenis have died as a direct results of the bombing campaign.
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  19. #526

    https://twitter.com/uprisingtoday/st...02023142256648

    Mohammed Ali al-Houthi



    British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visit to Yemen

    "The British Foreign Secretary “is driving the failure of the Stockholm accord these days into a repetition of the Battle of Hodeidah.”

    The head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, has just issued an important statement responding to the British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s threats of a return to total war, a war that has not actually stopped targeting the Yemeni people for the past four consecutive years.

    In his statement, al-Houthi noted that Hunt’s remarks are not arbitrary, but reveal the real policy of the UK, the US and their alliance in Yemen, and affirm the premeditated intention to repeat the Battle of Hodeidah.

    Muohammed al-Houthi held U.S.-British-Saudi-Emirati aggression and its allies in Yemen responsible for the consequences of their refusal to implement the Stockholm Agreement, and their obstruction of the efforts of the international envoys.


    1. We call upon the states of aggression to implement the Stockholm Agreement and to take a real peace step like the one taken by the Leader of the Revolution: to unilaterally withdraw and demonstrate their seriousness for peace.

    2. We hold the United States, Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen responsible for any consequences of their refusal to implement the Stockholm Agreement and to obstruct the efforts of the international envoy, who has not been given any response conducive to his success.

    3. We hold the United States of America, Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen, responsible for the continued aggression and siege of Yemen, and the worsening of humanitarian conditions that have led to famine.


    Full statement of Mohammed al-Houthi on Jeremy Hunt visit to Yemen
    https://www.uprising.today/full-stat...isit-to-yemen/

  20. #527
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visit to Yemen

    "The British Foreign Secretary “is driving the failure of the Stockholm accord these days into a repetition of the Battle of Hodeidah.”
    By chance yesterday I noticed that an article that involves "Hunt" was deleted from the internet.
    Maybe this is all a ploy to bury this story by having Jeremy Hunt visit Yemen...

    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    There are oil and large gas reserves in al-Jawf, which borders Saudi Arabia and has been protected by them for years. In 2011, President Saleh was forced to admit its existence publicly. The presence of gas reserves in the Marib-Jawf gas fields northeast of Sanaa was already known before 2011…
    In August 2005, the Yemen Liquid Natural Gas (YLNG) project in Balha project was being developed by a consortium led by France’s Total (39.62% shareholding); US company Hunt Oil (17.22%); South Korea’s SK Corp (9.55%), Kogas (6%), Hyundai Corporation (5.88%); Yemen Gas Company (6.73%), and the General Authority for Social Security & Pensions of Yemen (5%).
    The needed $5 billion, was financed in part with $3 billion from a syndicate of banks including Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Citigroup, ING Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Société Générale, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation: http://www.hydrocarbons-technology.c...cts/yemen-lng/
    This looked like Yemen would take 11.73% of the profits of this gas field - was this too much?


    There are reasons to believe that Saudi Arabia is a spend force in oil exports, and needs to plunder Yemen (and other states) to keep up. If the people find out that they have squandered the oil profits, the Saudi regime could be in a lot of trouble. It’s no coincidence that the Saudis are killing people in the same Jawf region where the oil and gas basins were first discovered and explored by Hunt Oil, Exxon.
    Since 15 November 2005, the Government of Yemen has taken action to prevent Hunt Oil and Exxon to plunder Yemen (in Block 18). According to Hunt this is in violation with agreements signed in 2004, so was forced to file arbitration against the Government of Yemen: http://web.archive.org/web/20171019064842/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hunt-oil-company-and-exxonmobil-file-arbitration-in-response-to-republic-of-yemens-expropriation-of-block-18-in-yemen-55698537.html
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  21. #528
    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    By chance yesterday I noticed that an article that involves "Hunt" was deleted from the internet.
    Maybe this is all a ploy to bury this story by having Jeremy Hunt visit Yemen...
    Maybe. idk. Is Jeremy an offspring of the oil Hunt family?
    the al-Jawf oil basin north of Sanaa (like you reported) is the 'jewel' they want to plunder.
    I posted a write-up w/ maps 'somewhere' in this thread awhile ago.



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  24. #530
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Maybe. idk. Is Jeremy an offspring of the oil Hunt family?
    the al-Jawf oil basin north of Sanaa (like you reported) is the 'jewel' they want to plunder.
    I posted a write-up w/ maps 'somewhere' in this thread awhile ago.
    I was thinking that stories on Jeremy Hunt in Yemen, will hide stories on Hunt Oil in Yemen. NOT because he´s a member of the family that owns this enterprise, but because they don´t want people to find this information when they use our internet “search” engines that are meant to NOT find the information we´re looking for...

    If I remember correctly you made a post after a request by @Swordsmyth that you didn't want to post it before thoroughly checking it out (my post was long before yours)... I was hoping for somebody else (you) to find more.

    Hunt Oil Co. is owned by the Hunt family through Hunt Consolidated Inc.
    Hunt Oil's most profitable success of the 1980s was in Yemen, where it was responsible for the country's first oil discovery. In 1981 Hunt Oil received a production-sharing contract from the government of North Yemen to drill for oil within a 5,000-square-mile concession. According to the contract's terms, the Yemeni government would initially keep half of the oil, its share increasing as production increased. With its first well, Hunt Oil in January 1984 discovered the Alif Field, an oil basin measuring more than four million acres in a vast desert containing estimated reserves of 400 million barrels of recoverable oil. "North Yemen will mean as much to Hunt in the 1980s and beyond as the purchase of Dad Joiner's oil rights in East Texas meant to H. L. Hunt in the 1930s," Jim Oberwetter, Hunt Oil government affairs director, told theDallas Business Courierin 1986.

    While Hunt Oil acted alone in the exploration and drilling of the Yemeni find, it signed on partners to help with the production. Sales of shares allowed Hunt to recover almost all of its investment costs by early 1988. In 1985, Exxonbought a 49 percent share in a venture to build a refinery and a pipeline, while a consortium of South Korean companies purchased another 24.5 percent share. The following year, Hunt Oil began construction on a $300 million, 263-mile pipeline from the Alif Field refinery to the port of Hodeida on the Red Sea, across three mountain ranges and through territory controlled by sometimes unruly tribes. The line, with a 200,000-barrel-per-day capacity, was completed in December 1987, whereupon Hunt Oil made the first oil shipments out of the country after an investment of more than $600 million. By the following year, Hunt Oil was delivering an estimated 150,000 barrels a day to tankers. By December 1990, Hunt produced more than 100 million barrels of oil from Yemen, and in 1991 had a staff of 220 that produced $100 million for the year. Although the refinery and pipeline operated by Hunt and financed by Exxon would eventually revert to the Yemeni government, Hunt Oil drilled subsequent successful wells in Yemen beyond the Alif Field and offshore in the Red Sea.
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  25. #531

    https://twitter.com/b_mox1216glfyr/s...87667131224064

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  26. #532
    The US Senate has (finally) approved the resolution, by a 54 to 46 vote, to put an end to Washington’s support for the war in Yemen by the “coalition” that was intensified in March 2015, including targeting support for airstrikes.
    The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, which could pass the measure this month.

    House Democrats intentionally derailed the process by supporting a procedural motion offered by Republicans to declare the chamber’s opposition to anti-Semitism. By attaching an unrelated amendment to the Yemen resolution, the House ended its “privileged” status, which would have forced the Senate to quickly take it up and send it to Trump.

    If the resolution passes the House, it is expected that Trump would block it by his first presidential veto: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/...en-war-sanders
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  27. #533
    Quote Originally Posted by Firestarter View Post
    The US Senate has (finally) approved the resolution, by a 54 to 46 vote, to put an end to Washington’s support for the war in Yemen by the “coalition” that was intensified in March 2015, including targeting support for airstrikes.
    The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, which could pass the measure this month.

    House Democrats intentionally derailed the process by supporting a procedural motion offered by Republicans to declare the chamber’s opposition to anti-Semitism. By attaching an unrelated amendment to the Yemen resolution, the House ended its “privileged” status, which would have forced the Senate to quickly take it up and send it to Trump.

    If the resolution passes the House, it is expected that Trump would block it by his first presidential veto: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/...en-war-sanders
    Beyond complicity. Beyond apathy.
    It will register as THE single most personal heinous WILLFUL act of any President in MY recent memory. Hands down. Spit.

  28. #534
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Beyond complicity. Beyond apathy.
    It will register as THE single most personal heinous WILLFUL act of any President in MY recent memory. Hands down. Spit.
    Is this even worse than the Morgenthau plan, when US President was Truman, in which literally millions of Germans where starved to death (more efficiently than bombs!): http://library.flawlesslogic.com/bacque_1.htm


    Even better (or should I say worse?); @juleswin introduced a strong argument that there’s really no need for Trump to block the resolution at all, as it allows the US army to continue to fight “al Qaeda or associated forces” (that’s probably anybody with supposed ties to Iran)...
    Pursuant to section 1013 of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 (50 U.S.C. 1546a) and in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–329; 90 Stat. 765), Congress hereby directs the President to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities in or affecting the Republic of Yemen, except United States Armed Forces engaged in operations directed at al Qaeda or associated forces
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...lution/54/text
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  29. #535
    Yemen's Houthi group said they were building their ballistic capabilities and their forces stand ready to strike Riyadh and Abu Dhabi if implementation of a U.N. peace deal in the port city of Hodeidah is breached.A spokesman of the Houthi forces said the group has a "stockpile of missiles" and the group can hit Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the two Gulf states leading the coalition backing the government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, whenever the military command decides on the timing.
    "We have intelligence asserting that the enemy is preparing for an escalation in Hodeidah and we are following their movements closely. Our forces stand ready for any requested and adequate measure," colonel Yahya Sarea, a spokesman of the Houthi forces, was quoted as saying by the group-controlled state news agency SABA late on Saturday.
    Sarea said the nature of the conflict, which is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran, has made ballistic missiles and drones a "strategic choice" and the only response to the Saudi-led coalition air strikes.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/yemens-houthi...124014173.html
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  30. #536
    The United Nations will put forward a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida to the government and Huthi rebels, a UN envoy said Tuesday.The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire deal reached in Sweden that offered the best hope in years of moving toward an end to the war that has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
    "Following constructive discussions with both parties, there is significant progress towards an agreement to implement phase one of the redeployments of the Hodeida agreement," said a statement from Martin Griffiths, the UN envoy for Yemen.
    "Operational details will be presented to the parties in the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) for endorsement shortly," he added.


    The UN envoy's statement did not give a date for the start of the pullback, which would mark the first concrete step towards de-escalation in Hodeida.
    Griffiths said he "looks forward to the swift endorsement of the plan" and expressed hope that a deal would pave the way to a broader political settlement to end the war.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/un-presents-p...163326027.html
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    A senior Houthi rebel leader in Yemen said Tuesday that his group will not give up the key port city of Hodeida, the focus of months of U.N.-brokered talks with the government.Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of the rebels' Supreme Revolutionary Committees, accused his rivals from the internationally-recognized government of misinterpreting the deal. He says the Houthis have agreed to withdraw their forces but will remain in control.
    He said the Saudi-backed government "couldn't get (the port) by force and they won't seize it by tricks."
    "We agree on the redeployment according to the presented mechanism, but withdrawal as they are promoting, is impossible," he said in an interview conducted in undisclosed location in Sanaa, after relocating to avoid airstrikes.

    More at: https://news.yahoo.com/ap-interview-...174338813.html
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  33. #538
    I´ve found an early story on the Yemen genocide with a good explanation on what has happened.

    According to US officials in 2015, Iranian representatives discouraged Houthi rebels from taking the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. If the Houthis directly disobeyed Iran, this shows that the Houthis were (and are) no proxy force for Iran.
    National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson Bernadette Meehan said:
    It remains our assessment that Iran does not exert command and control over the Houthis in Yemen.
    In March 2015, US military and NATO consultant Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies explained:
    Yemen is of major strategic importance to the United States, as is the broader stability of Saudi Arabia all of the Arab Gulf states.
    … Yemen does not match the strategic importance of the Gulf, but it is still of great strategic importance to the stability of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula.
    Yemen’s territory and islands play a critical role in the security of another global chokepoint at the southeastern end of the Red Sea called the Bab el-Mandab or ‘gate of tears’.
    A British diplomat said that Saudi Arabia had an interest to build a pipelinethrough Hadramawt to a port on the Gulf of Aden.
    Michael Horton, of the Jamestown Foundation, said:
    The kingdom’s primary interest in the governorate is the possible construction of an oil pipeline. Such a pipeline has long been a dream of the government of Saudi Arabia.
    A pipeline through the Hadramawt would give Saudi Arabia and its Gulf State allies direct access to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean; it would allow them to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint that could be, at least temporarily, blocked by Iran in a future conflict. The prospect of securing a route for a future pipeline through the Hadramawt likely figures in Saudi Arabia’s broader long-term strategy in Yemen.
    On 2 June 2015, senior advisor on Yemen at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Joke Buringa wrote:
    Fear of an Iranian blockade of the Hormuz Strait, and the possibly disastrous results for the global economy, has existed for years.
    The US therefore pressured the Gulf States to develop alternatives. In 2007 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Oman and Yemen jointly launched the Trans-Arabia Oil Pipeline project. New pipelines were to be constructed from the Saudi Ras Tannurah on the Persian Gulf and the UAE to the Gulf of Oman (one to the Emirate of Fujairah and two lines to Oman) and the Gulf of Aden (two lines to Yemen).

    Distrust about the intentions of Oman increased the attractiveness of the Hadramawt option in Yemen, a longstanding wish of Saudi Arabia.

    For many years the Saudis invested in tribal leaders in the hope to execute this project under Saleh’s successor. The 2011 popular uprisings by demonstrators calling for democracy upset these plans.
    The governorate of Hadramawt is one of the few areas where the Saudi-led coalition did not conduct any air strikes. The port and the international airport of al-Mukalla are in optimal shape and under the control of al-Qaeda. Moreover, Saudi Arabia has been delivering arms to al-Qaeda, (which) is expanding its sphere of influence.
    This also explains that Yemen’s eastern governorate of Hadramaut, with the bulk of Yemen’s oil and gas resources, has remained curiously free from Saudi bombardment. The province, Yemen’s largest, contains.
    This also explains that Yemeni President from 1978-2012 Ali Abdullah Saleh was ousted and later murdered as he always opposed this.

    Several Dutch corporations have a strong position in Saudi Arabia, including the Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell. Dutch exports to Saudi Arabia have also increased dramatically in recent years, rising 25% between 2006 and 2010.
    Two Saudi Arabian giant multinationals – Aramco and SABIC – have their European headquarters in in the Netherlands (The Hague and Sittard).

    Among the prime beneficiaries of the Saudi strategy in Yemen is al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
    The puppet government of Abd Rubbuh Mansour Hadi once dispatched none other than Abdulwahab Humayqani as a representative to Geneva as an official delegate for UN talks. In 2013, the US Treasury designated Humayqani as a "global terrorist" for recruiting and financing for al-Qaeda. Humayqani was also allegedly behind an al-Qaeda car bombing that killed 7 in 2012: https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-st...ering-al-qaeda
    (archived here: http://archive.is/2Lasp)


    According to former UN special envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, the “coalition” airstrikes destroyed an imminent peace deal between 12 rival political and tribal groups, including the Houthis, in Yemen.
    That couldn’t be the motive for the Anglo-American controlled United Nations to condemn Yemen in a resolution could it: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...n_7101456.html


    Earlier this month, British Armed Forces Minister Mark Lancaster told parliament that Britain is servicing fighter jets and trains the Saudi military in the war against Yemen: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/...abia-Yemen-war
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  34. #539
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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  35. #540
    Hunger Games: Four Years Of Saudi/US Aggression In Yemen

    Mar. 28 - For four years the Saudis (with US backup) have been bombing neighboring Yemen to force them to accept a Saudi-backed president that was overthrown. Due to Saudi bombs and a total blockade, millions face starvation and tens of thousands of children have already died of starvation. It is the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the globe, yet the US Congress cannot muster the will to tell President Trump that he does not have authority to continue backing up Saudi aggression with US military power. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel? Tune in to today's Liberty Report:

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