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RELEASE: The #Yemen Files: evidence of the US arming, training and funding of Yemeni forces. https://wikileaks.org/yemen-files/releases/ -
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Today, Friday 25th November, WikiLeaks releases The Yemen Files.
The Yemen Files are a collection of over 500 documents from the United
States embassy in Sana'a, Yemen. Comprising of over 200 emails and 300
PDFs, the collection details official documents and correspondence
pertaining to the Office for Military Cooperation (OMC) located at the
US embassy. The collection spans the period from 2009 until just before
the war in Yemen broke out in earnest during March 2015. This time covers both Hillary Clinton's term as Secretary of State (2009-2013) and the first two years of Secretary John Kerry.
Julian Assange said: "The war in Yemen has produced 3.15 million
internally displaced persons. Although the United States government has
provided most of the bombs and is deeply involved in the conduct of the
war itself reportage on the war in English is conspicuously rare."
Yemen is of significant strategic interest as Yemen controls a narrow
choke point to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal through which 11% of the
world's petroleum passes each day. In addition Yemen borders Saudi
Arabia (to the north) and Oman (to the east) and has access to the
Arabian Sea through which another 20% of the world's petroleum passes
from the Strait of Homuz (including the oil of Saudi Arabia and Iran).
Saudi Arabia seeks to control a port in Yemen to avoid the potential
constriction of its oil shipments by Iran along the Straight of Homuz or
by countries which can control its other oil shipment path along the
Red Sea.
The Yemen Files offer documentary evidence of the US
arming, training and funding of Yemeni forces in the years building up
to the war. The documents reveal, among other things, procurement of
many different weapon types: aircrafts, vessels, vehicles, proposals for
maritime border security control and Yemeni procurement of US biometric
systems.
US presence remained in the country until February 2015
when the US closed its embassy due to the continuing unrest between
different factions in the country. The war broke out a month later. https://wikileaks.org/yemen-files/?saudi -
