{"id":373227,"date":"2018-08-13T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-us-is-deeply-complicit-in-saudi-coalition-crimes-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:51:08","slug":"the-us-is-deeply-complicit-in-saudi-coalition-crimes-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-us-is-deeply-complicit-in-saudi-coalition-crimes-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Is Deeply Complicit in Saudi Coalition Crimes in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Originally appeared on The American Conservative<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Micah Zenko catches Secretary Mattis making an obviously false claim about U.S. involvement in the war on Yemen:<\/p>\n

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Stunning assertion by Sec. Matts; 40 months into America’s involvement in Yemen’s civil war. https:\/\/t.co\/PAazy5d777<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/0GEc04npJh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) August 13, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I saw Mattis\u2019 comment yesterday and said this:<\/p>\n

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No one buys that the U.S. is not a party to this war. This line is used to evade responsibility for coalition attacks that our support makes possible https:\/\/t.co\/woWaxWJiEs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Daniel Larison (@DanielLarison) August 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When we remember that the U.S. has provided the Saudi coalition with arms, refueling, intelligence, and diplomatic cover so that they can wage their war on Yemen for more than three years, it is remarkable that U.S. officials try to keep up the pretense that our government is not involved in the conflict. The Pentagon is quick to remind us that their support is \u201climited\u201d and \u201cnon-combat\u201d in nature whenever the Saudi coalition kills civilians with U.S.-supplied weapons, but at the same time they are adamant that their \u201climited\u201d support must never be cut off. When they assert that U.S. assistance helps limit civilian casualties (for which they provide no evidence), U.S. officials stress how vitally important that assistance is. When it comes to answering for coalition atrocities, they pretend that they have nothing to do with the fighting. If that excuse doesn\u2019t work, they will shrug and claim not to know<\/a> the extent of U.S. responsibility:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may never know if the munition [used] was one that the US sold to them,\u201d Army Maj. Josh Jacques, a spokesperson for US Central Command, told me.<\/i><\/p>\n

In fact, there is evidence<\/a> that the bomb that destroyed the school bus in Thursday\u2019s massacre<\/a> was one that the U.S. sold to them:<\/p>\n

This tweet, from respected Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee, shows part of a 500-pound MK-82 bomb. It is manufactured in the United States and sold in large numbers to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The remnants of the US bombs that killed Yemen children in the latest US-Saudi massare and war crime of August 9th, 2018 <\/p>\n

In Saada north Yemen. pic.twitter.com\/z8bvadwncG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) August 11, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Continued military assistance to governments that have routinely struck civilian targets and killed thousands of people is abhorrent. When our government has reason to believe that the assistance it provides will be used to commit human rights abuses and war crimes, it is obligated to withhold that assistance. Pretending not to know how the coalition is using the weapons and fuel the U.S. provides them is not credible after more than three years of coalition atrocities against Yemeni civilians. <\/p>\n

The reality is that the coalition relies on U.S. and British military assistance to wage their war and would not be able to continue it without that support. Bruce…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Micah Zenko catches Secretary Mattis making an obviously false claim about U.S. involvement in the war on Yemen: Stunning assertion by Sec. Matts; 40 months into America’s involvement in Yemen’s civil war. https:\/\/t.co\/PAazy5d777pic.twitter.com\/0GEc04npJh \u2014 Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) August 13, 2018 I saw Mattis\u2019 comment yesterday and said this: No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}