{"id":17702,"date":"2016-02-12T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17702"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:33:46","slug":"saudi-war-for-yemen-oil-pipeline-is-empowering-al-qaeda-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17702","title":{"rendered":"Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, IS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, IS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Secret cable and Dutch government official confirm that Saudi Arabia\u2019s war on Yemen is partly motivated by an ambitious US-backed pipeline fantasy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nearly 3,000 civilians have been slaughtered and a million displaced in Saudi Arabia\u2019s noble aerial bombardment of Yemen, which is backed by the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n

Over 14 million Yemenis face\u00a0food insecurity<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a jump of 12 percent since June 2015. Out of these, three million children are malnourished. And across the country, an estimated 20 million people cannot safely access clean water.<\/p>\n

The Saudi air force has\u00a0systematically bombed<\/a>\u00a0Yemen\u2019s civilian infrastructure in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. An official UN report to the Security Council leaked last month found that the Saudis have \u201cconducted airstrikes targeting civilians and civilian objects \u2026 including camps for internally displaced persons and refugees; civilian gatherings, including weddings; civilian vehicles, including buses; civilian residential areas; medical facilities; schools; mosques; markets, factories and food storage warehouses; and other essential civilian infrastructure, such as the airport in Sanaa, the port in Hudaida and domestic transit routes.\u201d<\/p>\n

US-made cluster bombs have been dropped on residential areas \u2013 an act that even the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon tepidly\u00a0concedes<\/a>\u00a0\u201cmay amount to a war crime\u201d.<\/p>\n

In other words, Saudi Arabia is a rogue state. But make no mistake. This kingdom is our rogue state.<\/p>\n

The US and British governments supplying Saudi Arabia with weapons to be unleashed on Yemeni civilians pretend they are not involved in the war, not responsible for the war crimes of our rogue state ally.<\/p>\n

A UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson insisted that British forces were merely advising \u201con best practice targeting techniques \u2026 UK military personnel are not directly involved in Saudi-led coalition operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, IS Secret cable and Dutch government official confirm that Saudi Arabia\u2019s war on Yemen is partly motivated by an ambitious US-backed pipeline fantasy Nearly 3,000 civilians have been slaughtered and a million displaced in Saudi Arabia\u2019s noble aerial bombardment of Yemen, which is backed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[447,6741,2092,588,628,701,820,834,901],"class_list":["post-17702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east-eye","tag-nafeez-ahmed","tag-oil","tag-pipeline","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-uk","tag-us","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17704,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17702\/revisions\/17704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}