Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen - over two-thirds of dead were civilians, including 23 children and 17 women
Johnny Asia
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/23/report_obama_ordered_us_military_strike
Report: Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen
We take a look at Yemen, the latest target of US-backed military
strikes against suspected Al Qaeda sites. ABC News reports that
President Obama directly ordered two cruise missile attacks in Yemen
last week. According to the New York Times, the United States gave
Yemeni forces military hardware and intelligence to carry out the
attack. We speak with Yemen expert, Towson University Professor
Charles Schmitz.
The Yemeni government says the raids targeted Al Qaeda training camps
and foiled a planned series of suicide bombings. Admiral Mike Mullen
praised the attacks citing concerns that Yemen was becoming �another
safe haven for terrorism.� The main target of the attacks, Al Qaeda
member Qasim al Rim, was not among those killed. But a local Yemeni
official said Sunday that over two-thirds of dead were civilians,
including 23 children and 17 women.
At a speech last month announcing the escalation of the war in
Afghanistan President Obama hinted at a possible attack on Yemen.
Last week�s strikes on alleged Al Qaeda hide-outs come in the midst of
the Yemeni government�s battle against a rebellion in the north and a
growing secessionist movement in the south. Saudi Arabia is backing
Yemen�s five-year-old war in the north and Yemeni rebel forces claim
that Saudi air strikes Sunday night killed 54 people.
For more I�m joined now from Baltimore, Maryland by Professor Charles
Schmitz who teaches Geography at Towson University. He is a specialist
on Yemen and President of the American Institute of Yemeni Studies.
Charles Schmitz, Professor of Geography at Towson University. He is a
specialist on Yemen and President of the American Institute of Yemeni
Studies.
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U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of
History
This is U.S.A.; a rogue regime uses weapons of mass-destruction over
civilian populations, giving its a license to assassinate "any one any where
in the world" and takes civilians as a legitimate target, American regime
flaunts United Nations resolutions and threatens to occupy other countries.
The outlaw terrorist regime is arrogant, uncivilized and behaving like a
bandit. It wages war on democracy at home and "decapitates" its own citizens
by censoring, punishing and imprisoning.