U.S. backs Saudi bombing of Yemen
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VOL. 33, NO. 4, APRIL 2015 WWW.SOCIALISTACTION.ORG U.S. / CANADA $1 Backed by U.S. logistical and intel ligence support, the Saudi Arabian petro-monarchy and its allies have pounded Yemen with devastating air strikes aimed at preparing the way for a possible ground invasion.
Saudi Arabia’s “coalition of the will ing” oil monarchs and other Saudi allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Arab League are threatening to send some 150,000 troops to oust the Houthi tribal-based rebels from Ye men’s capital, Sana’a, and other rebelcontrolled cities throughout Yemin.
Yemen has now been subjected to what amounts to a full naval block ade, accompanied by almost total con trol of its airspace. This is enforced by 100 Saudi warplanes, supplemented by fighter jets from its “coalition part ners” and U.S. “allies”—the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jor dan, Morocco, and Sudan.
The U.S. has approved the airstrikes and provides logistical support by lo cating targets and related surveillance techniques. Britain, the former colo nial master of Yemen, is also lending military intelligence for the operation. Egypt’s naval fleet is bombarding the Yemeni coast.
The terror bombing operation in Ye men is named Determination Storm, (reminiscent of the 1990-91 U.S. mass slaughter in Iraq, Operation Desert Storm). Reports recount almost con tinuous bombings—as in Tikrit, Iraq, in recent days, where reporters counted U.S. bomb blasts at the rate of twice a minute throughout the evening hours.
In Yemen, civilian casualties have risen into the hundreds. Saudi officials, like their Israeli counterparts during the Gaza slaughter, are blaming civil ian deaths on the Houthis, with spuri ous accusations that they have been using civilians and public buildings as human shields. The state-run Saudi Press Agency has chimed in, insisting that the saturation terror strikes were conducted with “precision weapons to avoid collateral damage.” The Saudi me dia neglected to mention that Yemeni media outlets as well as the offices of the Arab-language news network, Al Jazeera, have been destroyed.
The rapidly unfolding Yemini events, including the Houthis‘ occupation of almost the entire country, impelled the U.S. in late March to hastily remove its Special Forces units in the south and to (continued on page 9, in “Memoirs of a French revolutionary”)
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