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Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:46:47 GMT
Gordon Brown (L) and Barack Obama (archive photo)
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The British premier's office says that Prime Minister Gordon
Brown and US President Barack Obama have agreed to fight
what they call terrorism in Yemen and Somalia.
The UK and the US have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism
police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising threat from the
country.
The British premier's office says that Prime Minister Gordon
Brown and US President Barack Obama have agreed to fight
what they call terrorism in Yemen and Somalia.
The UK and the US have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism
police unit in Yemen to tackle what they deem the rising
threat from the country.
The US has been involved in war in Yemen by sending its
special forces to train the Yemeni military and conducting
air raids in both northern and southern parts of the Middle
Eastern country.
Obama order
On December 18, ABC News quoted anonymous administration
officials as saying that US Nobel Peace Prize laureate
President Barack Obama ordered the US military to launch air
strikes on Yemen.
Upon the orders of Obama, the military warplanes on December
17 blanketed two camps in the North of the Yemeni capital,
Sana'a, claiming there were "an imminent attack against a US
asset was being planned." The attacks killed scores of
civilians, according to Yemeni opposition groups.
Fighting in the north
US military intervention in Yemen comes at a time that the
country's army with full support from Saudi Arabia has been
fighting with Shia Houthi fighters in northern parts of the
country.
Houthi fighters say both Saudi and US fighter jets have been
involved in bombing Shia villages, inflicting heavy civilian
casualties.
Earlier, the fighters had expressed full readiness for
dialogue with the Yemeni government.
The Houthis say they will turn to talks if the Yemeni and
Saudi military halt their attacks against them.
The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana'a
and Houthi fighters. Relative peace had returned to the
region for a period before August 11, when the Yemeni army
launched a major offensive, dubbed Operation Scorched Earth,
against Sa'ada Province.
The government claims that the fighters, who are named after
their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, seek to restore the Shia
imamate system, which was overthrown in a 1962 military
coup.
The Houthis, however, say they are defending their people's
civil rights, which the government has undermined under
pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists. Shias, who
form the clear majority in the north, make up approximately
half of Yemen's overall population.
The United Nations, which according to its charter is set up
"to take effective collective measures for the prevention
and removal of threats to peace, and for the suppression of
acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace," has
failed to adopt any concrete measures to help end the bloody
war.
US war on terror
The latest alleged front against al-Qaeda in Yemen is opened
more than eight years after the US-led invasion of
Afghanistan which was said to be aimed at eradicating
militancy and the arrest of main militant leaders including
Osama Bin Laden.
According to UN figures, Afghan civilians have been the main
victims of the controversial war.
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