As Mass Uprising Threatens the Saleh Regime, A Look at the Covert U.S. War in Yemen (Jeremy Scahill)

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Published on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Democracy Now!

Jeremy Scahill: As Mass Uprising Threatens the Saleh Regime, A Look at the Covert U.S. War in Yemen

The crisis in Yemen is growing following high-level defections from the regime of U.S.-backed President Ali Abudullah Saleh. On Monday, a dozen top military leaders announced their pledge to protect the protest movement after 45 people were killed and some 350 were wounded when Yemeni forces opened fire on demonstrators in the capital of Sana’a on Friday—after two months of nationwide demonstrations. In recent years, the United States has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in military and security aid to Yemen. “The Obama administration has really escalated the covert war inside of Yemen and has dramatically increased the funding to Yemen’s military, particularly its elite counterterrorism unit, which is trained by U.S. Special Operations Forces," says Democracy Now! correspondent and independent journalist Jeremy Scahill. "It could get much worse if Ali Abdullah Saleh decides to unleash the U.S.-trained counterterrorist units on his own population."

[dotymed]

1. Too bad that "Democracy Now"

is not a part of our "MSM."
Jeremy Scahil is one of the true journalists left in America.

[Charleston Chew]

2. Kick & Recommend

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Jeremy Scahill on US Military Actions in Yemen
The Nation on Grit TV
November 5, 2010

http://www.thenation.com/video/155867/conversation-jeremy-scahill-us-military-actions-yemen
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3. K & R. Scahill asks Why Has the US Been Silent on Yemen's Uprising?

The uprising in Yemen took a significant turn yesterday following a series of high-level defections against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's regime. After Yemeni forces opened fire on demonstrators Friday, killing 45 people and wounding some 350 others, top military leaders decided they could no longer stand by Saleh and chose to ally themselves with the protesters. The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill joined Democracy Now! this morning to discuss the motivations behind the sharp contrast in the Obama administration's response to the rising crisis in Yemen, as opposed to the more forceful condemnations the administration has meted out to the leaders of Libya and other Middle Eastern nations.

Yemen has from the outset played a crucial role in the US war on terror, Scahill says. President Saleh has accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in military and security aid in exchange for US access to Yemeni territories. As part of the covert war inside of Yemen, the US has conducted drone attacks that have killed civilians, all of which were covered up when the Yemeni government claimed the strikes as their own.

“The fact is that the US has been almost entirely silent in the face of Saleh’s forces gunning down their own citizens, which stands in stark contrast to the position that the US has taken on some of the other regimes in the area,” he says. “You can’t help but wonder if the US is hoping that Saleh holds on in Yemen.”

In the same program, Scahill discusses the no-fly zone in Libya, calling it a “recipe for disaster.”

http://www.thenation.com/video/159389/jeremy-scahill-why-has-us-been-silent-yemens-uprising

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4. edit- wrong place

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5. Yemen's President Gets New Powers

By MARGARET COKER And HAKIM ALMASMARI
* MARCH 23, 2011, 1:59 P.M. ET


"SAN'A, Yemen—Yemen's Parliament, at the behest of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh, passed sweeping new emergency laws that suspend the constitution and enable his remaining loyal security forces to arrest and detain his opponents, a move that political-opposition forces say heightens the threat of civil war.

The move is the latest attempt by Mr. Saleh to remain in power even as a towering array of forces—including more than half of the country's top military commanders and powerful tribal and religious leaders—demands his ouster. With tanks from both pro- and anti-Saleh forces facing one another in the streets of the capital, it was unclear how Mr. Saleh could use the new powers, or which security officers would obey a command to clear the streets teaming with antigovernment demonstrators."

more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576218430941437682.html

[EFerrari]

6. The Yemeni government has been killing their citizens

with our full support thanks to money laundering operation aka the war on terra.