Yemen: US Providing Equipment as Well as Training
US Agreed to Provide Training, Intelligence in November
The US signed a military pact with Yemen in early November, agreeing to provide the war-torn nation with valuable intelligence data as well as training in counter-terror operations,
But Yemeni government spokesman Tareq al-Shami admitted today that the United States has also been providing his government with weaponry and other military equipment, the first time they have acknowledged this.
The US has been expressing interest in Yemen for awhile, but it is only now, as the Obama Administration gears up for war in the nation, that it has become clear just how much of a covert war America has already been involved in there.
In addition to the cruise missile attacks in mid-December, the US reported has covert forces operating on the ground in Yemen, and what was first being talked about as a new war is really just a serious escalation of one already taking place, quitely and without the notice of most Americans.
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Santiago
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
"The US has been expressing interest in Yemen for awhile"
What the hell, just like buying a car huh?
HASH
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:11 am
Yemen anit-islamic govt also has proven that thy have made thier god father usa like saudies. This is raal ant-islamic peoples how belive in infidals not on teaching of muhammad sure arabs go back 1400 year before in thier real nature.
HASH
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:21 am
To only muslim brothers and sisters please listen there is no al-qaida and taliban may be some people claim but all is operated under CIA and Mosad and they have their broadcast and propaganda control all over the wolrd they make stories to brainwash purposes there is all bomb blast in pakistan, Iraq, pakistan, and others muslim countries all done by them please understand no one can take benefit except from USA, Israel, UK and europe they all our real eneimes since the time of Islam begin pls get together and forget about or differences then no one can harm us.