Syria’s Role in the Iraq Insurgency Spring 2009

kudzu said:
Maybe you should look into the problem with Yemen and its history since 1960.
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"Ever since they occupied Aden as a territory in 1839, British troops were subjected to attacks. From 1962, Britain was engaged in an escalating conflict in the protectorate. Using grenades, bombs and rifles supplied by regional and world powers, nationalist groups such as the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Federation for the Liberation of South Yemen (FLOSY) targeted British troops and their families. By November 1967, the situation was untenable and Britain’s ‘permanent garrison East of Suez’ was abandoned."
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/why-did-british-troops-leave-aden
 
Jack said:
North Yemen and South Yemen have been fighting each other for a long time.
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Yemen has been a battlefield for communists against monarchists since the 1960s.. and in recent years Yemen has been flooded with every crackpot jihadi group from AQ to ISIS to Al Shabaab..

Remember the attack on the USS Cole and the various bomb attempts on US airlines?
 
kudzu said:
Yemen has been a battlefield for communists against monarchists since the 1960s.. and in recent years Yemen has been flooded with every crackpot jihadi group from AQ to ISIS to Al Shabaab..

Remember the attack on the USS Cole and the various bomb attempts on US airlines?
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"Once considered so important it was said that Aden would be held for as long as Britain remained great, the withdrawal of troops from Yemen, 50 years ago this month, marked the closing of another chapter on Britain’s colonial rule. "
"Following the Suez Canal crisis and the loss of more than 90 servicemen in then Southern Arabia, former soldiers deployed in Aden have said it was like 'the sun going down on the British Empire.' "
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4976954/Aden-emergency-fifty-years-Post.html
 
kudzu said:
Yemen has been a battlefield for communists against monarchists since the 1960s.. and in recent years Yemen has been flooded with every crackpot jihadi group from AQ to ISIS to Al Shabaab..

Remember the attack on the USS Cole and the various bomb attempts on US airlines?
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We have supplied the radical beheading Islamist Saudis with internationally illegal cluster bombs, known to have a 90% collateral casualty rate in the field, that they have rained down on Yemen. Any nation like ours who's "jobs program" is based upon slaughter is a nation the world would be better off rid of. The empire will be involved in slaughter across the globe until it no longer exists. That's just who america is. You're ok with that, you've made it plain. Nothing to do now but reap what we’ve sown.
 
kudzu said:
Saudi Arabia has always helped Yemen with food, healthcare, education, jobs , gasoline... In 2000 they had to move all the Arab villages on the border with Yemen back 20 kilometers.
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Yemen Became The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelin...orlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis/#27830cfe5050

How the Saudis Turned the Yemen War Into a Humanitarian Crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-yemen-war-into-humanitarian-crisis-quicktake

The Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Expert insights from an event on the complex dynamics and rising stakes of Yemen's humanitarian emergency.
https://www.csis.org/events/humanitarian-crisis-yemen-0

Yemen is undeniably the world's worst humanitarian crisis: WFP
Chief of UN's food agency raises alert over Yemen's hunger crisis at the UN General Assembly as famine fears loom.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018...-humanitarian-crisis-wfp-180928051150315.html
 
Fentoine Lum said:
We have supplied the radical beheading Islamist Saudis with internationally illegal cluster bombs, known to have a 90% collateral casualty rate in the field, that they have rained down on Yemen. Any nation like ours who's "jobs program" is based upon slaughter is a nation the world would be better off rid of. The empire will be involved in slaughter across the globe until it no longer exists. That's just who america is. You're ok with that, you've made it plain. Nothing to do now but reap what we’ve sown.
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I wish any of the jihadi groups in Yemen were as high-minded as you are..
 
kudzu said:
Saudi Arabia has always helped Yemen with food, healthcare, education, jobs , gasoline... In 2000 they had to move all the Arab villages on the border with Yemen back 20 kilometers.
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"The war has received widespread criticism and had a dramatic worsening effect on the humanitarian situation, that reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster"[16] or "humanitarian catastrophe".[146][147][148] After the Saudi-led coalition declared the entire Saada Governorate a military target, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen and Human Rights Watch said that air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Saada city in Yemen were in breach of international law.[149][150] On 1 July 2015 UN declared for Yemen a "level-three" emergency – the highest UN emergency level – for a period of six months.[151][152] Human rights groups repeatedly blamed the Saudi-led military coalition for killing civilians and destroying health centers and other infrastructure with airstrikes.[153] The de facto blockade left 78% (20 million) of the Yemeni population in urgent need of food, water and medical aid. Aid ships are allowed, but the bulk of commercial shipping, on which the country relies, is blocked.[154] In one incident, coalition jets prevented an Iranian Red Crescent plane from landing by bombing Sana'a International Airport's runway, which blocked aid delivery by air.[155] As of 10 December 2015, more than 2,500,000 people had been internally displaced by the fighting.[156] Many countries evacuated more than 23,000 foreign citizens from Yemen.[157][158][159] More than 1,000,000 people fled Yemen for Saudi Arabia,[160] Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Oman.[159][161] The war has caused a humanitarian crisis, including a famine which has threatened 13 million people,[162] as well as an outbreak of cholera which has infected hundreds of thousands.[163]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen

This is 'Khashoggi' ... times one million.
 
kudzu said:
I wish any of the jihadi groups in Yemen were as high-minded as you are..
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America is supposed to be exceptional, you're right, it is not, at all.

Here's a partial list of who we're high mindedly willing to partner with recently:

Saddam
Osama
al Qaida
al Nusra
ISIS
the beheading dismembering radical Islamist genocidal Saudis
the genocidal Israeli state
neo-nazis in Ukraine
3/4s of the world's military dictatorships
 
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Jack said:
"The war has received widespread criticism and had a dramatic worsening effect on the humanitarian situation, that reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster"[16] or "humanitarian catastrophe".[146][147][148] After the Saudi-led coalition declared the entire Saada Governorate a military target, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen and Human Rights Watch said that air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Saada city in Yemen were in breach of international law.[149][150] On 1 July 2015 UN declared for Yemen a "level-three" emergency – the highest UN emergency level – for a period of six months.[151][152] Human rights groups repeatedly blamed the Saudi-led military coalition for killing civilians and destroying health centers and other infrastructure with airstrikes.[153] The de facto blockade left 78% (20 million) of the Yemeni population in urgent need of food, water and medical aid. Aid ships are allowed, but the bulk of commercial shipping, on which the country relies, is blocked.[154] In one incident, coalition jets prevented an Iranian Red Crescent plane from landing by bombing Sana'a International Airport's runway, which blocked aid delivery by air.[155] As of 10 December 2015, more than 2,500,000 people had been internally displaced by the fighting.[156] Many countries evacuated more than 23,000 foreign citizens from Yemen.[157][158][159] More than 1,000,000 people fled Yemen for Saudi Arabia,[160] Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Oman.[159][161] The war has caused a humanitarian crisis, including a famine which has threatened 13 million people,[162] as well as an outbreak of cholera which has infected hundreds of thousands.[163]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen

This is 'Khashoggi' ... times one million.
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Jobs for americans. Win win.
 
Fentoine Lum said:
America is supposed to be exceptional, you're right, it is not, at all.

Here's a partial list of who we're high mindedly willing to partner with recently:

Saddam
Osama
al Qaida
al Nusra
ISIS
the beheading dismembering radical Islamist genocidal Saudis
the genocidal Israeli state
neo-nazis in Ukraine
3/4s of the world's military dictatorships
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You lumped all those together? Really?
 
Jack said:
"The war has received widespread criticism and had a dramatic worsening effect on the humanitarian situation, that reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster"[16] or "humanitarian catastrophe".[146][147][148] After the Saudi-led coalition declared the entire Saada Governorate a military target, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen and Human Rights Watch said that air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Saada city in Yemen were in breach of international law.[149][150] On 1 July 2015 UN declared for Yemen a "level-three" emergency – the highest UN emergency level – for a period of six months.[151][152] Human rights groups repeatedly blamed the Saudi-led military coalition for killing civilians and destroying health centers and other infrastructure with airstrikes.[153] The de facto blockade left 78% (20 million) of the Yemeni population in urgent need of food, water and medical aid. Aid ships are allowed, but the bulk of commercial shipping, on which the country relies, is blocked.[154] In one incident, coalition jets prevented an Iranian Red Crescent plane from landing by bombing Sana'a International Airport's runway, which blocked aid delivery by air.[155] As of 10 December 2015, more than 2,500,000 people had been internally displaced by the fighting.[156] Many countries evacuated more than 23,000 foreign citizens from Yemen.[157][158][159] More than 1,000,000 people fled Yemen for Saudi Arabia,[160] Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Oman.[159][161] The war has caused a humanitarian crisis, including a famine which has threatened 13 million people,[162] as well as an outbreak of cholera which has infected hundreds of thousands.[163]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen

This is 'Khashoggi' ... times one million.
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In 2002 Yemen was pumping 500,000 bpd.. and after the Houthis overthrew the government they were pumping 52,000 bpd.. and 500 factories closed. Can you fix that?
 
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