{"id":7769,"date":"2015-05-02T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2015-05-02T06:56:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T11:56:04","slug":"us-assisted-wahhabi-bombings-of-yemen-are-devastating-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"US-Assisted Wahhabi Bombings of Yemen are \u201cDevastating\u201d: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/us-assisted-wahhabi-bombings-of-yemen-are-devastating-un.html\" target=\"_blank\">US-Assisted Wahhabi Bombings of Yemen are \u201cDevastating\u201d: UN<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The UN Secretary General\u00a0<a title=\"stated \" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2015\/04\/30\/265183\/un-warns-yemen-campaigns-civilian.html\" target=\"_blank\">stated\u00a0<\/a>Thursday that Saudi bombings of Yemen, which are assisted and coordinated by the US, \u201care having a devastating impact on humanitarian aid efforts and are in violation of the laws of war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While noting that fighters within Yemen are also committing war-crimes \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"ISIS\" href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2015\/04\/30\/isis-issues-video-showing-execution-of-15-soldiers-in-yemen\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISIS<\/a>, for example, has been able to establish a presence in the country thanks to the Saudi campaign \u2013 the UN has \u201cbeen particularly critical of the Saudi air strikes\u201d, for which the \u201cUnited States is providing aerial refueling and intelligence\u201d from within and outside the Saudi-Wahhabi dictatorship\u2019s territory, as well as<a title=\"rescuing \" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2015\/04\/13\/guest-column-robert-barsocchini-us-abandons-citizens-yemen-rescues-saudi-bombers\/\" target=\"_blank\">rescuing\u00a0<\/a>Saudi pilots: \u201cU.S. military assets ha[ve] been used to rescue two Saudi pilots\u201d \u2013 McClatchy.\u00a0 (The US also evacuated its own government staff.)<\/p>\n<p>While 8 countries, including India, China, and Russia, have carried out missions to rescue thousands of their civilian nationals, as well as foreign nationals and some Americans from the Yemen war zone, the Obama regime, recalling Bush\u2019s treatment of hurricane Katrina refugees,\u00a0<a title=\"refuses \" href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2015\/04\/13\/guest-column-robert-barsocchini-us-abandons-citizens-yemen-rescues-saudi-bombers\/\" target=\"_blank\">refuses\u00a0<\/a>to evacuate any of the<a title=\"3 to 4,000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/04\/us-intelligence-houthis-iran-proxy.html\" target=\"_blank\">3 to 4,000<\/a>\u00a0US civilians trapped in Yemen, despite US-lawsuits calling on Obama to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The UN said that \u201cmore than 1,200 people have been killed in the past six weeks of fighting and that 300,000 have fled their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antiwar.com\u00a0<a title=\"reports \" href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2015\/04\/30\/isis-issues-video-showing-execution-of-15-soldiers-in-yemen\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u00a0<\/a>that US-backed Saudi aggression \u201chas provided an opportunity for AQAP [al Qaeda] and ISIS to gain ground\u201d, as the\u00a0<a title=\"Houthis\" href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2015\/03\/31\/yemens-houthis-are-no-iran-proxy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Houthis<\/a>, a domestic Yemeni movement opposed to al Qaeda, had previously prevented the Saudi-supported groups from gaining a foothold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-Assisted Wahhabi Bombings of Yemen are \u201cDevastating\u201d: UN The UN Secretary General\u00a0stated\u00a0Thursday that Saudi bombings of Yemen, which are assisted and coordinated by the US, \u201care having a devastating impact on humanitarian aid efforts and are in violation of the laws of war.\u201d While noting that fighters within Yemen are also committing war-crimes \u2013\u00a0ISIS, for 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