{"id":6759,"date":"2015-03-23T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6759"},"modified":"2015-03-23T14:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:51:32","slug":"us-loses-500-million-in-weapons-given-to-yemen-now-in-al-qaeda-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6759","title":{"rendered":"US &#8220;Loses&#8221; $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen, Now In Al-Qaeda Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-03-23\/us-loses-500-million-weapons-given-yemen-now-al-qaeda-hands\" target=\"_blank\">US &#8220;Loses&#8221; $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen, Now In Al-Qaeda Hands<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Nobody could have possibly foreseen that yet another US foreign diplomacy &#8220;success story&#8221; would turn out to be an epic disaster. Well, nobody, except for those who accurately predict that\u00a0<em>every\u00a0<\/em>US intervention abroad is now a staggering fiasco (for everyone involved except the US military-industrial complex of course). As for Yemen, the outcome was clear long ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-01-22\/yemens-us-backed-government-president-resigns\">Yemen&#8217;s US-Backed Government &amp; President Resign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-01-20\/obamas-partners-yemen-overthrown-presidential-palace-falls-local-militiamen\">Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Partners&#8221; In Yemen Overthrown As Presidential Palace Falls To Local Militiamen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-02-11\/deserted-us-embassy-yemen-immediately-seized-armed-rebels\">Deserted US Embassy In Yemen Immediately Seized By Armed Rebels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-02-10\/coup-complete-us-embassy-yemen-shutting-down-ambassador-leave-wednesday\">The Coup Is Complete: US Embassy In Yemen Shutting Down, Ambassador To Leave By Wednesday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, naturally, after noting that &#8220;<strong>the employees said that more than 20 vehicles were taken by the fighters after the Americans departed from Sanaa&#8217;s airport<\/strong>&#8221; we asked how long until we have a &#8220;tabulation of losses to US taxpayers, just like the great Islamic State &#8216;robbery&#8217; of hundreds of millions in US military equipment in Iraq?&#8221; That, of course, was another epic US intervention success story.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/pentagon-loses-sight-of-500-million-in-counterterrorism-aid-given-to-yemen\/2015\/03\/17\/f4ca25ce-cbf9-11e4-8a46-b1dc9be5a8ff_story.html\">WaPo we have an answer<\/a>: according to Jeff Bezos&#8217; recent media acquisition, &#8220;<strong>the Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, &#8220;can&#8217;t account for&#8221; means &#8220;has lost.&#8221; But while the US does not know where nearly half a billion in weapons can be found, it is more than informed who is the current owner: there are<strong>&#8220;fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or\u00a0al-Qaeda, according to U.S. officials<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US &#8220;Loses&#8221; $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen, Now In Al-Qaeda Hands Nobody could have possibly foreseen that yet another US foreign diplomacy &#8220;success story&#8221; would turn out to be an epic disaster. Well, nobody, except for those who accurately predict that\u00a0every\u00a0US intervention abroad is now a staggering fiasco (for everyone involved except the [&hellip;]<\/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":[23,1319,528,620,698,827,901],"class_list":["post-6759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-armaments","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-pentagon","tag-sanaa","tag-united-states","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","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=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}