Topic: Report Ties U.S. Bombs to Saudi-Led Strike That Killed Yemeni Civilians (Read 339 times)
April 08, 2016, 06:18:07 PM
Are we looking to blame America for supplying these bombs,seems to be the jest of it. Canada also has a armoured truck deal with the Saudis for over a billion so the blame would be all over if we are looking to make that point. Hard to say no to that Oil money.
April 08, 2016, 05:45:39 PM
The Saudis simply want to exterminate the Shiites from Northern Yemen, thereby making Yemen their vassal country. IMO, the merger of South Yemen with North Yemen was a grave mistake, which must be reversed. Give North Yemen to the Shiites and South Yemen to the Sunnis. There will be no bloodshed and all the problems will be solved.
Do you think divide the country will solve the problem? I don't think so because they want to delete the wrong belief in God, and invite them to the right path.IMO they don't wanna kill people, but they have to do because something I don't know yet.
April 08, 2016, 09:35:15 AM
The Saudis simply want to exterminate the Shiites from Northern Yemen, thereby making Yemen their vassal country. IMO, the merger of South Yemen with North Yemen was a grave mistake, which must be reversed. Give North Yemen to the Shiites and South Yemen to the Sunnis. There will be no bloodshed and all the problems will be solved.
April 07, 2016, 01:46:02 PM
A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition used bombs supplied by the United States in an attack on a market in Yemen last month that killed at least 97 civilians, including 25 children, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday.
The group said it had found fragments of two American-made bombs at the market, in the northern district of Mastaba, linking the United States for the first time to the March 15 airstrikes, which were believed to be the deadliest coalition bombings during Yemen’s yearlong civil war. The high death toll, along with images of children killed in the blasts, ignited international outrage and prompted calls for an investigation.
The Saudi-led coalition has been criticized for carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes that have hit markets, hospitals and homes as it has waged war against the Houthis, a rebel group from Yemen’s north that seized power from the government last year.
Coalition airstrikes have caused most of the civilian deaths in the conflict, according to the United Nations, and have led to mounting calls in Europe for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia. An airstrike on another market, in February near Sana, the capital, led the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to call for an inquiry.
The debate in the United States over the airstrikes has been much more muted, in part because the Obama administration has provided few details about its precise role in the air campaign. American officials have said they provide assistance to the coalition, including intelligence from reconnaissance drones, airborne fuel tankers and advanced munitions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/middleeast/report-ties-us-bombs-to-saudi-led-strike-that-killed-yemeni-civilians.html
The group said it had found fragments of two American-made bombs at the market, in the northern district of Mastaba, linking the United States for the first time to the March 15 airstrikes, which were believed to be the deadliest coalition bombings during Yemen’s yearlong civil war. The high death toll, along with images of children killed in the blasts, ignited international outrage and prompted calls for an investigation.
The Saudi-led coalition has been criticized for carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes that have hit markets, hospitals and homes as it has waged war against the Houthis, a rebel group from Yemen’s north that seized power from the government last year.
Coalition airstrikes have caused most of the civilian deaths in the conflict, according to the United Nations, and have led to mounting calls in Europe for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia. An airstrike on another market, in February near Sana, the capital, led the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to call for an inquiry.
The debate in the United States over the airstrikes has been much more muted, in part because the Obama administration has provided few details about its precise role in the air campaign. American officials have said they provide assistance to the coalition, including intelligence from reconnaissance drones, airborne fuel tankers and advanced munitions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/middleeast/report-ties-us-bombs-to-saudi-led-strike-that-killed-yemeni-civilians.html
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