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Yemen: USA are fighting against democracy, not against Al-Qaeda (February 9, 2010) "The United States is running the risk of losing control of this much coveted region, which Washington intends to destabilize anyway, but on its own terms. (...) the Al Qaeda terrorist threat is only an excuse; what is really unfolding is the undermining of democracy in the Gulf in order to keep control over its oil."
Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways (February 7, 2010) "One of the objectives of Washington's agenda is to militarize major sea ways. This strategic waterway links the Mediterranean to South Asia and the Far East, through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. It is a major transit route for oil tankers. A large share of China's industrial exports to Western Europe transits through this strategic waterway. (...) The Socotra archipelago is part of the Great Game opposing Russia and America."
Caught on Tape: Saudi Army Tortures Yemeni Rebels (February 4, 2010) "A videotape recorded by cell phone camera, and obtained by SIA News, shows members of the Saudi army torturing Yemeni citizens, suspected of being Houthi rebels."
CIA chief holds secret talks with Egypt, Israel (January 30, 2010) "The Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has held secret talks with Egyptian and Israeli officials over expanded US intervention in Yemen. (...) A large US base is under construction near the Yemeni Red Sea port of Hodeira (...) secret joint operations in Yemen"
Yemen: Toward Another US Quagmire (January 17, 2010) "All the signs point to Yemen being the next target in the US-led "war on terrorism." (...) The new focus on Yemen was prepared well before Abdulmutallab took off for Detroit. (...) emen itself has limited oil reserves, but is strategically positioned adjacent to the vital sea lanes from the Middle East to Europe via the Suez Canal."
"Not a Possibility?" - War on Yemen (January 16, 2010) "The government of Yemen has stated unequivocally that it will accept no U.S. ground forces in the country"
State-Failure & Systemic-Collapse - the US, Yemen & al-Qaeda: One Big Trojan Horse (January 15, 2010) "The consequent escalation of al-Qaeda militant activity in Yemen has revolved around oil installations and has prompted US defense officials to highlight the necessity of US intervention due to Yemen's critical geostrategic position."
The Empire Discovers Yemen (January 14, 2010) "The White House's identification of a new enemy was good news for those who had become concerned that the war on terror, now called overseas contingency operations, was not expanding quickly enough."
Yemen: The Backstory (January 12, 2010) "The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counterinsurgency war that, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even worse."
Controlling Yemen Is Just Part of Obama's Power Game with China | World | AlterNet (January 11, 2010) "The stepped-up presence in Yemen is the latest move in an increasingly cozy three-way US-Israel-India alliance that is the emphatic counter to China's surge. "
Arab World: Battleground Yemen (January 9, 2010) "Yemen is currently host to no less than three separate insurgencies. Each resembles one another in that they are being conducted by forces committed to some form of political Islam. There, however, the similarities end."
Yemen and the Al Qaeda Pretext: A Closer Look at the War on Terrorism's "New Frontier" (January 8, 2010) "Obama's AfPak strategy brought to surface the touchy issue of defining terms previously assumed to be self-evident such as 'Al Qaeda' and 'Taliban'. Despite Bush-era treatment of these terms as some kind of fixated Platonic archetypes, problems of definition have always been raised"
Yemen - Behind The Al-Qaeda Scenarios A Geopolitical Oil Choke Point To Eurasia (January 4, 2010) "A closer look at the background suggests the Pentagon and US intelligence have a hidden agenda in Yemen."
MUST READ: The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedom With Phony Arab Terrorism (December 31, 2009) "Yemen's Ministry for Oil and Mineral Resources has received eight oil investment bids from international companies (...) Yemen also has significant natural gas reserves that are in the process of being explored and extracted by French Multi-national Total. But perhaps Yemen's most strategically important asset is its location. Sitting on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, the Yemeni sea port of Aden and the gulf of Aden in general is ideally located for the transport of the two aforementioned crucially important commodities. Over 30% of all crude oil and over 10% of global trade pass through the Gulf of Aden and control of it gives control over shipping in the region (think piracy) and access to the coasts of oil-rich East African nations like Somalia and Sudan."
Fun and Games in the desert: CIA present in Yemen since 2008 (December 28, 2009) "about a year ago the CIA sent many field operatives with counterterrorism experience to the country."
Yes, Yemen Has Oil (December 28, 2009) "The Middle Eastern nation - in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea - has been exporting a couple of billion dollars worth of crude oil per year. But it's oil supplies are shrinking rapidly, and may be totally depleted within 10 years."
U.S. Participated in Slaughter of Dozens of Civilians in Yemen (December 20, 2009) "49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed in air strikes against Al-Qaeda, which he said were carried out "indiscriminately.""

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