Strategic: U.S.-Backed Saudi War Crimes in Yemen

Date: 21 August 2016 - 21:00

News ID: ۳۰۳۱۱

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

Despite international outcry and increasing condemnation, the United States government refuses to stop its military support for the Saudi war crimes in Yemen.
The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led campaign of indiscriminate killing and war crimes  has now been going on for almost a year and a half. And the United States bears a large part of the responsibility. This is because the War Party is actively selling the Saudis billions of dollars of weaponry. They are re-supplying planes engaged in the bombing runs and providing "intelligence” for the targets that Saudi Arabia is hitting.
Put simply, the US is quite literally funding a humanitarian catastrophe that, by some measures, is larger than the crisis in Syria. Needless to say, the situation could change to the benefit of the Yemeni people if Washington withheld its criminal support. Unfortunately, this is yet to be the case.
To avoid criticism, Washington might now claim its military has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel who were coordinating with the Arab coalition air campaign in Yemen, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting in that planning. That’s a lie.
Hundreds of U.S. service people are still assigned full-time to the "Joint Combined Planning Cell,” which was established last year to coordinate U.S. support, including air-to-air refuelling of coalition jets and limited intelligence-sharing.
Even if that is the case, the shift does not diminish U.S. commitment to supporting Saudi-led military operations. Simply put, The forward team that was in Saudi Arabia is now in Bahrain. That's it really.
After all, the relationship between the House of Saud and the U.S. is a strategic one, and it doesn't end with Yemen. The regime changers are doing the same thing to Syria, where their terrorist proxy forces have so far killed some 400,000 people and made millions more refugees.
In a sense, the Saudis cannot continue the destructive war on Yemen without the United States on its side. Into the argument, this is also what Washington expects from its vassals in Riyadh; doing the dirty job of regime change in Sana’a.
The fact is, under international law, the U.S.-backed airstrikes amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, as the Saudi-led offensive has no international legitimacy. These are the same terror-mongers that unraveled Syria and Iraq – with a helping hand from terrorists - after getting the green light from Washington.
There is no reason to think this time it is otherwise. According to the White House, the U.S. is still coordinating closely with its cronies in the military action, including providing intelligence and logistical support.
The U.S and its regional vassals have deliberately turned Yemen into yet another disaster zone, encouraging the fragmentation of the whole country. In the process, they aid and abet the growth of terror outfits in the hope "to stop the growing Iranian influence,” save Saudi oil, protect Israel, implement their regional designs, and reinstate their puppet regime.
Despite the new political charade, the regime change campaign will continue as before, as the illegal war is not be limited to Yemen.