UAE Camps in Negev to Train Mercs for Yemen War

Date: 16 February 2019 - 21:46

News ID: ۶۳۲۰۷

TEL AVIV (Dispatches) – Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu said in August that if Iran tried to block the Bab al-Mandab strait, it would find itself facing a coalition including all Israel’s military branches.
Such a coalition had already been set up in 2015 by Saudi Arabia, which partnered with the United Arab Emirates, to invade Yemen. Israel is also an unofficial partner, the occupying regime’s leading daily Haaretz confirmed.
"Israeli cyber companies, gun traders, terror-warfare instructors and even paid hitmen operated by an Israeli-owned company are partners to the war in Yemen,” it said.
In September, London-based Al-Khaleej Online published a long article about the Zionist regime’s involvement in training Colombian and Nepalese combatants, who were recruited by the UAE for the war in Yemen.
The report cites sources in a U.S. House Intelligence Committee who said the foreign fighters’ recruiter was Muhammad Dahlan, who was a member of Fatah’s central committee and head of intelligence in Gaza. Dahlan was ousted from Fatah in 2011 and later moved to the UAE, where he became the advisor of the crown prince and the liaison and mediator between the UAE security forces and the occupying regime of Israel.
The report also says that Israel set up special training bases in the Negev, where the mercenaries were trained by Zionist combatants. Dahlan occasionally visited those camps, in which the UAE flag was hoisted.
The mercenaries later took part in the war on the port town Hudaydah and other fighting zones in Yemen, Haaretz said.
The site’s sources said the occupying regime of Israel also sold bombs and missiles to Saudi Arabia, some of which are banned. Recently it was reported that Israel also sold Saudi Arabia combat drones and intends to sell it Iron Dome systems as well.
Many reports have been written about Zionist companies like the NSO group, which is suspected of selling Saudi Arabia Pegasus spyware accused of helping trace and survey Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, or the AGT company owned by the Israeli businessman Mati Kochavi, which in 2007 won the $6 billion bid to set up surveillance and monitoring systems in Abu Dhabi. But what remains a mystery is to what extent Zionist technology served the fighting forces in Yemen.
Another company, Spearhead Operations Group, which was set up by Israeli Avraham Golan and is registered in the United States, was responsible for assassinating Yemenite clergyman Anssaf Ali Mayo in December 2015. Mayo was one of the leaders of the Yemeni reform party, which is affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood. The latter is classified in the UAE as a terror organization.
Golan confirmed to BuzzFeed in October that "there was a plan for targeted assassinations in Yemen. I ran it. We did it. The plan was under the UAE auspices as part of the Arab coalition.”
Golan added that during the months his company was active in Yemen he was in charge of several "high profile” assassinations and that the United States needs a murder plan based on the model he set up. According to BuzzFeed, those who actually carried out the assassinations were apparently former combatants in top American commandos.
The occupying regime of Israel is not the only side selling military services to the UAE and Saudi Arabia to go to the war in Yemen. Private American companies, senior officers and ex-CIA agents found their bonanza in these two states, just as private companies made a huge fortune out of "military” services they provided the Iraqi government after the occupation, Haaretz said.
These services include active warfare and intelligence gathering as well as commanding mercenary units or combatant units from Saudi Arabia and UAE. For example, the former American general Stephen Toumajan is serving as the UAE’s commander of the Joint Aviation Command and was the chief of a combat helicopter unit that fought in Yemen, the paper said.
Toumajan isn’t the American security agencies’ subcontractor, he wears the UAE air force uniform and in interviews he speaks of himself as a general in the state’s army. Toumajan represents a new stage in the privatization of the war in Yemen and in other states in which the United States is involved but isn’t taking part in the battles.
A foreign partnership in the armies of Arab states isn’t new. Pakistani pilots for example fly Saudi planes, the Presidential Guard commander in the UAE is Australian general Mike Hindmarsh. Companies from all over the world including Occupied Palestine run advanced intelligence systems, so the term "mercenaries” has evolved from armed combatant units from poor countries who come to improve their standard of living to a role filled with extensive activities including setting up combat units, commanding them, planning war moves, purchasing equipment and managing budgets.
According to Haaretz, the senior mercenaries have not ruled out the need for the cannon fodder recruited by the fighting states from the ever available stock in poor states.
Many Yemenites have avoided joining the Saudi campaign to fight the Houthi fighters and their allies in the Yemeni army.
The most expensive mercenaries are from elite American units like the Navy Seals, army rangers and the Marines, the paper said.
The Israeli war ministry or Mossad, Haaretz said, may claim people who served in their ranks and are now private contractors of the UAE or South American states are not working in Israel’s name.