{"id":6844,"date":"2015-03-26T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6844"},"modified":"2015-03-26T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:02:10","slug":"saudi-arabia-with-us-support-invades-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6844","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia, with US Support, Invades Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/03\/saudi-arabia-us-support-invades-yemen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia, with US Support, Invades Yemen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As a\u00a0<a title=\"study \" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/03\/study-physicians-social-responsibility-us-wars-iraq-afghanistan-pakistan-killed-1-3-million-conservative-estimate.html\" target=\"_blank\">study\u00a0<\/a>released today shows the US has killed perhaps more than 2 million people in the last decade of its wars on the Middle East, the US is now supporting a Saudi invasion of Yemen.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telesur\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Update-Saudi-Arabia-Launches-Military-Operation-in-Yemen-20150325-0040.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telesur<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The government of Saudi Arabia began a military operation in Yemen against the Shiite Houthi rebels, early Thursday local time. Some reports say the operation could\u00a0involve\u00a0150,000 troops and 100 fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters news agency, the United States coordinated with the Saudi government ahead of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released late Wednesday, the White House confirmed it will provide logistical and intelligence support for the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is one of the world\u2019s most repressive states, and has a deal with Pakistan for delivery of nuclear weapons at its request (see\u00a0<a title=\"BBC\u2019s \" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-24823846\" target=\"_blank\">BBC\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>\u201cSaudi Nuclear Weapons on Order from Pakistan\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Obama secured a\u00a0<a title=\"60 billion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2010\/10\/20\/us-usa-saudi-arms-idUSTRE69J4ML20101020\" target=\"_blank\">60 billion<\/a>\u00a0dollar arms\u00a0sale to the Saudi dictatorship, then a 640 million dollar\u00a0sale of\u00a0<a title=\"banned \" href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2013\/08\/23\/u-s-shipping-thousands-of-cluster-bombs-to-saudis-despite-global-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">banned\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(as reported by\u00a0<em>Foreign Policy<\/em>\u00a0mag) cluster bombs.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, the US supported an invasion by Saddam Hussein\u2019s Iraq of Iran. \u00a0The US\u00a0<a title=\"provided \" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war#Chemical_and_biological_exports\" target=\"_blank\">provided<\/a>Hussein with advanced weaponry, chemical weapons, and\u00a0<a title=\"plans&amp;nbsp;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/news\/2007\/07\/5080\/anthrax-export\" target=\"_blank\">plans\u00a0<\/a>for\u00a0building chemical weapons facilities. \u00a0The attack killed some\u00a0<a title=\"1,000,0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/sep\/23\/iran-iraq-war-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\">1,000,0000<\/a>\u00a0Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia, with US Support, Invades Yemen As a\u00a0study\u00a0released today shows the US has killed perhaps more than 2 million people in the last decade of its wars on the Middle East, the US is now supporting a Saudi invasion of Yemen. Telesur: The government of Saudi Arabia began a military operation in Yemen against [&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":[407,701,1633,1634,827,901],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-houthi","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shia","tag-shiite","tag-united-states","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","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=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}