President Biden said during a press conference Wednesday that redesignating Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization is “under consideration.”
The Trump administration listed the Houthis as a terror organization as one of its last foreign policy moves. The UN and other aid groups warned the designation would lead to a massive famine since the label essentially criminalizes delivering food to Houthi-controlled areas of north Yemen, where most of the country’s starving population lives.
Because of the dire warnings, President Biden quickly lifted the designation when he first came into office. But now, the UAE is calling on the US to redesignate the Houthis as terrorists after the Yemeni Shia group launched an attack on Abu Dhabi that killed three people. The UAE is part of the Saudi-led coalition that has been waging war against the Houthis since 2015, so the attack isn’t much of a surprise.
The UAE also has little credibility when it comes to accusing others of being “terrorists,” especially when it comes to Yemen. A CNN report from 2019 revealed that US weapons sold to Saudi Arabia and the UAE ended up in the hands of al-Qaeda. A 2018 investigation from The Associated Press detailed how the UAE was recruiting al-Qaeda militants to fight the Houthis.
When he first came into office, President Biden vowed to end all support for the Saudi-led coalition’s “offensive” operations in Yemen and said he would work towards a diplomatic solution to end the war. But almost a year later, US support continues, and Saudi airstrikes are still pounding Yemen.
An apparently unlawful drone attack by
the United Arab Emirates that hit the Al-Sunbulah biscuit factory in Wadi al-Rabie, Libya, south of Tripoli, on November 18, 2019, killed 8 civilians and wounded 27, Human Rights Watch said today, after investigating the incident. The UAE appeared to take little or no action to minimize harm to civilians in its attack and should conduct a transparent investigation of this incident, make the results public, and compensate victims or their families.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/29/libya-uae-strike-kills-8-civilians#
The BBC has uncovered new evidence that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libya’s capital Tripoli in January 20
At the time of the strike on 4 January, Tripoli was under siege by the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53917791
That’s the benefit of joining the “Abraham accords” and officially kissing Israel’s ass. That and some f-35s. But what’s a few more hundred thousand starving children when the MIC needs feeding.
Theatre for home consumption and to force other countries to take up financial sanctions and allow the uS to steal any money or assets from the Houthis..
Like the Taliban and the Iraq militias, the Houthis are going to win. This will be yet another defeat for the US, so they want to go after the money before they are thrown out of the Arabian peninsular.
When anyone talks or writes about the US military might or victories, I just laugh.
More to the point. The UAE and Saudis are bombing the same targets in Yemen. If anything, the Houthis are being more precise in attacking infrastructure being used to wage war against them.
On the same token Houthis will designate Pentagon as terrorists…! So all US bases in Saudi Arabia and UAE will be the targets…!
This war has spanned three presidencies, all in support. Obama, Trump, and Biden belong in the Hague for their enabling this vicious war, leading to the most acute humanitarian crisis in the world today.
Do recall how the Yemen war started; The saudi’s demanded that the Yemeni govt allow the saudi’s to dig a canal across Yemen to ship oil,. the Yemeni government said no,. Not being ones to take no for an answer, Saudi’s then attacked Yemen to destroy their resolve against the canal.
Yemen is the poorest nation in the region and the USA supports the Saudis militarily to ensure the destruction of the militant Houthis and anyone else in the path.
The U.S. killed 3X more civilians in one careless drone strike in a city street in Kabul than the Houthis who hit UAE govt infrastructure. Why don’t we designate ourselves terrorists?