U.S. intensifying illegal campaign of Yemen airstrikes!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 8, 2011 - The illegitimate Obama regime has intensified the Amerikan covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to U.S. officials.
The acceleration of the campaign in recent weeks comes amid a violent conflict in Yemen that has left the government in Sana’a, a United States ally, struggling to cling to power. Yemeni troops that were battling militants linked to Al Qaeda in the south have been pulled back to the capital, and U.S. officials see airstrikes as one of the few options left to keep the militants from consolidating power.
On Friday, U.S. jets killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, an alleged midlevel al Qaeda operative, and several other militant suspects in a strike in southern Yemen. According to unnamed witnesses, four civilians were also killed in the airstrike. Weeks earlier, drone aircraft fired missiles aimed at Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Amerikan-born cleric whom the United States government has tried to assassinate for more than a year.
Awlaki survived.
The recent operations come after a nearly year long pause in U.S. airstrikes, which were halted amid concerns that poor intelligence had led to bungled missions and civilian deaths that were undercutting the goals of the secret campaign.
Officials in Washington said that U.S. and Saudi Arabian spy services had been receiving more information - from electronic eavesdropping and informants - about possible locations of the militants. But, they added, the outbreak of the wider conflict in Yemen created a new risk: that one faction might feed information to the Amerikans that could trigger airstrikes against a rival group.
