{"id":18327,"date":"2016-02-26T14:13:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18327"},"modified":"2016-02-26T14:13:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:13:39","slug":"how-us-helps-al-qaeda-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18327","title":{"rendered":"How US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen<\/a><\/h3>\n

Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0The Obama administration, eager to assuage Saudi Arabia\u2019s anger over the Iran nuclear deal and the failure to achieve \u201cregime change\u201d in Syria, has turned a blind eye to Riyadh\u2019s savaging of Yemen, even though that is helping Al Qaeda militants expand their territory, writes Jonathan Marshall.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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For nearly a year, the Obama administration has\u00a0turned a blind eye<\/a>\u00a0to the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen since Saudi Arabia invaded in March 2015 to crush an Iranian-supported insurgency and restore a discredited former president to power. But Washington cannot so easily ignore the rapid resurgence of a dangerous branch of Al Qaeda that is thriving on the chaos to take control of much of southern Yemen.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0war<\/a>\u00a0between indigenous Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed supporters of former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has\u00a0cost more than 6,000 lives<\/a>\u00a0and caused more than 35,000 casualties.<\/p>\n

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King Salman the President and First Lady to a reception room at Erga Palace during a state visit to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 27, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What a United Nations report called \u201cwidespread and systematic<\/a>\u201d attacks against civilians by Saudi and Gulf emirate pilots, armed with U.S.-made aircraft and\u00a0cluster bombs<\/a>\u00a0that are banned by international treaty, account for the bulk of civilian deaths and for the wholesale destruction of\u00a0ancient cities and cultural centers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, a Saudi-imposed blockade on Yemen,\u00a0supported by Washington<\/a>, has allowed only a trickle of relief supplies to reach the country, putting millions of people at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n

In the midst of this Hobbesian nightmare, militant followers of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants are making a rapid comeback after being crippled in 2012.<\/p>\n

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How US Helps Al Qaeda in Yemen Exclusive:\u00a0The Obama administration, eager to assuage Saudi Arabia\u2019s anger over the Iran nuclear deal and the failure to achieve \u201cregime change\u201d in Syria, has turned a blind eye to Riyadh\u2019s savaging of Yemen, even though that is helping Al Qaeda militants expand their territory, writes Jonathan Marshall. For […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[23,7430,2847,1246,776,827,901],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-jonathan-marshall","tag-obama-administration","tag-riyadh","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327","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=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18328,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions\/18328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}