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Michael Horton, Truthout: "In an August 14 article entitled, 'Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents,' The New York Times reported on how the US is expanding its counterterrorism role in Yemen. The article describes an evolving 'shadow war' where the US utilizes a 'scalpel' approach to deal with the perennial threat of al-Qaeda or, in the case of Yemen, the recently rebranded al- Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)."

http://www.truth-out.org/shadows-and-scalpels-expanding-war-terror-yemen62653

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Amnesty: UK planes 'attacked Yemen'

Amnesty International says war planes supplied by the UK to Saudi Arabia are "extremely likely" to have been used in attacks on civilians in Yemen.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=139996&sectionid=351020206



An Exciting New Muslim Country To Attack

By Glenn Greenwald

There is anti-Americanism and radicalism in Yemen; therefore, to solve that problem, we're going to bomb them more with flying killer robots, because nothing helps reduce anti-American sentiments like slaughtering civilians and dropping cluster bombs from the sky.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26245.htm



U.S. Weighs Expanded Attacks in Yemen

Such a move would give the Central Intelligence Agency a far larger role in what has until now been mainly a secret U.S. military campaign against militant targets in Yemen and across the Horn of Africa. It would likely be modeled after the CIA's covert drone campaign in Pakistan.

http://bit.ly/aYWbms



Yemen says US officials exaggerate Qaeda threat

Sanaa insists that fighting terrorism in Yemen remains responsibility of Yemeni forces.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=40887



CIA wants to cover up US war crimes in Yemen

A missile strike on December 17 in Yemen last year that killed 41 people including 21 children and 14 women was most likely the result of a US cruise missile strike - an opening shot in a US military campaign that began without notice and has never been officially confirmed.

http://warincontext.org/2010/08/25/cia-wants-to-cover-up-us-war-crimes-in-yemen/


From Information Clearing House

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Obama’s other surge — in Yemen

Christian Science Monitor
by staff

08/26/10

The long struggle against Al Qaeda since the 9/11 attacks has taken many twists and turns. Now it has even led to the forced evacuation of an entire city of 80,000 people — in Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden. The evacuation took place last week when the Yemeni military laid siege to the southern city of Loder in order to flush out a group called Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which may have 300 to 500 fighters. The battle, which left dozens killed on both sides, is the latest escalation of a joint effort by the Obama administration and the Yemeni government to rid the country of this dangerous affiliate of Mr. bin Laden’s core group in Pakistan...

http://tinyurl.com/23s8ktc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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