Abdel Bari Atwan who is the Editor in Chief of the well-known pan-Arab newspaper al Quds al Arabi, accused yesterday Gulf and Western nations of supporting president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
in his crackdown of the revolution.Atwan claims that the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia and the United States of America, to only name a few, agreed to have Saleh hammer protesters with his military might just as long as he didn't take too long... According to the Editor in Chief, King Abdullah bin Aziz would be condoning the Yemeni massacre as he saw it as a mean to an end. Since no democracy in the monarch's view should be allowed to flourish in the region the best approach was to erase all political opposition, even if it meant killing a few hundreds on the way.As for the Americans, they agreed a while ago to let the Saudi handle the "Yemeni matter" as long as they could use its territories to pound al-Qaeda alleged positions and use the region as a military Drones base. Atwan stressed that the outpouring of condemnations coming from the EU and the U.N were only a "show" destined to blind public opinion and dupe people into believing that the "West" was standing up against tyranny. He finally declared that the U.S and the Saudi had given Saleh enough money to fund a crackdown, encouraging him to hire mercenaries. Whether this al-Quds' conspiracy theory is true or not is another matter. However,
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since convoy of military equipment have recently arrived in Yemen via the KSA one could wonder how strongly the King of Soddy Arabia is truly condemning the use of violence. The Opposition claimed as well as few days ago that it placed in long-term storage 7 African mercenaries hired by the regime to kill Yemeni protesters.