As US Pivots from Afghanistan to Yemen, Al-Mahrah Copes with Increasing Military Presence

Residents in eastern Yemen see the surge of U.S. military personnel as malign and colonial in nature and worry that it will bring not only chaos and instability to their region but could also bring with it the infamous human rights abuses and horrific violations that took place in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[mintpressnews.com]

{Eastern Yemen has been largely spared the country’s grueling six-year war, with U.S. military personnel in the region, once a rare sight, garnering little more than a curious stare from the passing onlooker. But a new sense of anxiety has settled over the residents of the eastern Al-Mahrah Province amid stories of violent midnight raids by American and Saudi commandos and an increasingly visible U.S. military presence in the region.}

Well, there we have it. The war hawk Biden breaks another promise for a chance to extend the killing fields. Did he actually stop arms sells? Well, we'll just take our own in and join in the killing. And expand it to parts relatively untouched.

{The shoring up of the American military presence in the province, home to untapped and potentially lucrative massive oil reserves, comes on the back of several visits by high-ranking American officials to the region.}

ding ding ding....the rest of the story. In other words. If your loved one gets sent home with a flag draped over them, we thank you for your service towards our profits. How patriotic. How American.

{Yemeni NGOs and government officials have been complaining for years that al-Ghaydah Airport is home to secret prisons where Abu Ghraib-style human rights abuses and outright torture are carried out. Local residents believe the abuses are taking place under the supervision of the American forces, or with their knowledge at a minimum, according to Ahmed al-Ali, the head of Southern National Committee to Resist the Invasion, a group dedicated to the protest of a Saudi military presence in the region.}

This is what you believe in as the spread of democracy?

{The vice-chairman of the Peaceful Sit-in Committee, Sheikh Aboud Haboud Qumsit, accused Saudi Arabia and the UAE of seeking to portray Al-Mahrah as an al-Qaeda stronghold. He added, “We make it clear to everyone that these allegations are scandalous and Al-Mahrah will not be a stronghold of al-Qaeda and IS.” He even accused the Saudi-led Coalition forces of being behind any surge in terrorist elements in the region, saying “al-Qaeda and IS have been brought to the province and used to reinforce the foreign presence in Al-Mahrah.”}

Lets be clear, face the truth. Where ever we go over there the terrorist come. And they come with weapons and funding from us, or other western governments. The labels on pieces of bombs left about almost always have a US weapons maker stamped on them. If not directly from our intelligence agencies or military, they get them from foreign governments they overtook in battle. Iraq and Afghanistan has provided a large amount of weaponry and machinery over the years to the Taliban and various groups. That includes chemical weapons also. Of the last 3 accusations of chemical attacks in Syria, none of them have been tied to the Syrian governments past stock piles signature, but outside from other countries.