Nafeez Ahmed on 3 April 2015 published an insightful article at the website Middle East Eye that
brings together research from David Hearst demonstrating that the US
itself, through its Gulf allies, gave the northern Houthis of Yemen a
green light for their offensive last September. (See (1) Blowback in Yemen; (2) Saudi Power Struggles ... and (3) US War in Yemen, Saudi-Arabia, Iran,...)
The
first of these articles by David Hearst (Blowback in Yemen) revealed
that the Houthi offensive was “conducted under the nose of a US military
base in Djibouti” from where CIA drones operate. “The Houthis are even
protecting the US embassy in Sanaa.” Hearst revealed that the Houthis
had been emboldened by a quiet nod from Saudi Arabia, under the watchful
eye of US intelligence.
The second article “Saudi's internal
power struggles ...”, which analyzed Saudi support for the military coup
in Egypt, outlines how Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar met with
Houthi leader Saleh Habreh in London. The Saudis wanted to mobilise the
Houthis against the Islah Party, Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood branch that
shared power with President Hadi, so that they “cancel each other out”
in conflict. But Islah refused to confront the Houthis, and Riyadh’s
green light backfired, allowing the militia to march unhindered to the
capital.
Nafeez Ahmed explains that “Sources close to Hadi say
they were told by the Americans about a meeting in Rome between Iranian
officials and the son of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, to secure
his assurances that government units loyal to Saleh would not oppose the
Houthi advance.” Nafeez Ahmed also unveils the US strategy in promoting
full-scale Sunni-Shia regional war-by-proxy: Since 9/11, every country
in the region touched by major US interference has collapsed into civil
war as their social fabric has been irreversibly shattered: Yemen,
Syria, Iraq and Libya.
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