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“US ally” UAE is arming Yemeni jihad leader who is on terrorist list

Dec 30, 2018 12:35 pm By Robert Spencer

The source of this story is the propaganda mill known as the Washington Post, so it cannot be taken at face value, but there is nothing implausible about the prospect of the UAE arming Abu al-Abbas. For years I have said that the U.S. needs to reconfigure its global alliances in order to face the realities of the global jihad. This has not been done. So of course embarrassing situations such as this one are inevitable.

“The U.S. put a Yemeni warlord on a terrorist list. One of its close allies is still arming him.” by Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, December 29, 2018:

TAIZ, Yemen — Last year, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on a powerful Yemeni Islamist warlord, accusing him of being a “prominent military instructor” and fundraiser for al-Qaida who had also at one point “served with” the Islamic State and financed its forces.

But Abu al-Abbas is not on the run. He is not even in hiding.

By his own admission, Abbas continues to receive millions of dollars in weapons and financial support for his fighters from one of Washington’s closest Middle East allies, the United Arab Emirates, undermining U.S. counterterrorism goals in Yemen.

The UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, leads a regional coalition waging war in Yemen even as a humanitarian crisis there worsens. The coalition’s main goal is to defeat the northern Yemeni rebels known as Houthis and restore the country’s ousted government. The United States assists it with intelligence gathering, logistical support and the sale of billions of dollars in weapons and equipment – including several MRAP armored vehicles that have ended up in Abbas’s hands, according to one of the warlord’s top aides and photos publicly available online.

“The coalition is still supporting me,” Abbas, 47, said in a rare interview this month in a heavily guarded house in the southern city of Aden. “If I really was a terrorist, they would have taken me in for questioning.”

To the extent that it is strengthening suspected extremists, the coalition is working against U.S. efforts to defuse global threats emanating from southern Yemen, where the Trump administration is waging a separate conflict against al-Qaida’s Yemen affiliate and a nascent branch of the Islamic State. The al-Qaida affiliate has targeted the United States several times, and U.S. officials consider it the terrorist network’s most dangerous arm….

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  1. Indiana Tom says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    So we fed and cared for our pet rattlesnake and we are wondering why it is biting us?

    • J D S says

      Dec 31, 2018 at 1:28 pm

      Now I know that “taking ones enemy out” by any means POSSIBLE may be controversial…but the enemy is THE ENEMY.
      Rules of engagement and polite political correctness. Two things that is hurting America at home and on the battle
      Of course the world is different now….but I’d sure like these two things to revert to the WWII era…….it seems that after the Korean War we lost our guts and world prestige.

  2. jayell says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 1:32 pm

    With ‘allies’ like this load of Uriah Heeps, the West doesn’t need enemies.

  3. Bezelel says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    I know it’s a dumb question, but when dealing with islam, just who are the good guys?

    • Adam says

      Dec 30, 2018 at 9:02 pm

      The ones at room temperature.

  4. jewdog says

    Dec 30, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    Not too many boy scouts in Yemen, apparently. The Shiites are aligned with Iran, which is the greater strategic threat.

  5. Lorraine E Blazich says

    Dec 31, 2018 at 1:18 pm

    Bottom center muslim looks very much like our former president – barach barry hussein obama soretoro sabarkah davis.

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