This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Al-Qaeda Informant Says Yemen Lied To US, Secretly Channelled Money, Bombs
In a speech on September 10, 2014, President Obama famously cited Yemen as a model of “success” in the war on terror. A little over six months later, Yemen was a failed state.
As we’ve documented exhaustively (here, here, and here for instance), the situation in Yemen is a reflection of failed US foreign policy. Washington’s tendency to pursue short-term, narrow-minded, geopolitical expediency at the expense of promoting long-term regional stability has led directly to multiple bloody proxy wars including the conflict that is unfolding in Yemen today.
As the US attempts to navigate what is now a hopelessly conflicted set of regional alliances, and as Washington tries to keep track of where the US supports Shiite militias versus where the CIA assists Sunni militants, a new picture has emerged of pre-Arab Spring Yemen.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, a former al-Qaeda informant for the Ali Abdullah Saleh government claims Abdullah Saleh and his lieutenants not only turned a blind eye to AQAP operations in the country, but in fact played a direct role in facilitating al-Qaeda attacks even as the government accepted anti-terrorism financing from the US government.
Via Al Jazeera:
Hani Mujahid chose to tell his story to Al Jazeera because he felt trapped: When the al-Qaeda operative-turned Yemeni government informant tried to brief the CIA on his allegations that Yemen had been playing a double game in the fight against al-Qaeda, he found himself detained and badly beaten by Yemeni security personnel.
No longer able to trust any of the stakeholders, he turned to the media to tell his story. If his allegations prove true, they will be deeply embarrassing to the US.
But the testimony of men like Mujahid, erstwhile foot soldiers of al-Qaeda, is valuable in itself, offering the world unique insights into the motivations of the young men who answered Osama bin Laden's call to arms.
By his account, he became an insider at the highest levels of both al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Yemeni security services - and concluded that those two entities had more in common than was generally known..
The story of Mujahid's remarkable interview with the network began on December 5, 2013, when fighters from AQAP wearing Yemeni military fatigues shot their way past security inside the Ministry of Defence complex and mounted a prolonged and gruesome rampage that killed 52 people, most of them unarmed civilians and medics.
That attack prompted unprecedented unanimity in condemning AQAP among all of Yemen's political and religious factions, outraged by the targeting of innocent Muslims in a hospital. It also appears to have prompted Mujahid to reach out to 42-year-old lawyer Abdul Rahman Barman..
"Brother Abdul Rahman," Mujahid's text message to Barman read, "consider me a suicide attacker of another type. My bombing will be the information I shall divulge". Barman closed his phone, unsure of whether his correspondent was just suffering from the high emotion of the day..
Mujahid had previously met Barman through some of his other clients facing harassment by the security services of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Mujahid'sstory was not unfamiliar to the lawyer. Bin Laden's message of "global jihad" as a response to the problems of the Muslim world had resonated with many young men in Yemen, and in 1998, Mujahid - unemployed, and with only a high school education at age 20 - decided to act on it..
The US invasion of Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks saw Mujahid and his al-Qaeda brethren retreat to Pakistan's tribal areas in 2002, from where they staged cross-border attacks against the US and its allies before being arrested in September 2004 in Quetta by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)..
Mujahid says that while imprisoned at Sanaa's squalid prison, he was tapped to work as an informer for Yemen's two most powerful security services - the National Security Bureau (NSB) and the Political Security Organisation (PSO)..
The first incident that troubled him, Mujahid explained, was a July 2, 2007, AQAP ambush that killed 10, including eight Spanish tourists. Mujahid says he warned his handlers of the preparations one week before the operation and then again on the morning of the attack, but that it went ahead without any interference.
He was even more alarmed by the September 17, 2008, attack against the US embassy in Sanaa, which resulted in 19 deaths, most of whom were Yemeni citizens. In Al Jazeera's documentary - Al-Qaeda Informant - Mujahid alleges that Colonel Ammar Mohammed Saleh, the then-president's nephew who was second in command at the National Security Bureau, provided AQAP with money and arrangements to receive the explosives they needed for the attack.
»
- 8847 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
The CIA does it, why not Yemen?
Politicians lying? I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell you.
I just can't believe that anyone in the middle east, especially Yemenis, could be so duplicitous!
They're our ally in the Terrorable Long War.
What they need is jobs. Maybe we should have them build us an island in the Pacific, for peaceful purposes.
And didju see that guy shape shift into a reptilian? Right in the middle of when he was talking! See, can't trust those guy things.
Plus the guy talking about all the bad stuff is probably crisis actor; looks just like the cabbie drove me from Midtown to LaGuardia the other week.
Expect freinds? Get a dog ... er, maybe a baby pig ... er, a Christian .... er
Oh never mind.
Yemen....a colony of Israel, Saudi Arabia or Qatar?
The US knows exactly where the funds and arms are going because they are directing the funds and arms. And paying this guy to say they aren't.
This is just the construction of the plausible part of denyability.
"These scum sucking terrorist bastards have been screwing us over, but they wouldn't lie about it so we must believe them...
Convienently, their story also washes our hands of it all."
Of course, Yemen was supporting their fellow Sunnis of al Qaeda, and the US is supporting Saudi Arabia in Yemen, just as they have always supported the Great Beheaders of Saudi Arabia!
That's why the plutocracy is fucked up!
Ever since the Carter Administration formed an alliance with the Saudis to relocate Wahabist extremists to the northern border Afghanistan shared with the Soviet Union, to stir up trouble and destabilize the secular government there, the US has always supported the Sunni extremists.
Which is why George Weasel Bush allowed the Iraqi army (Saddams Fedayeen, Republican Guard, etc.) to vacate the premises and continue their fight on in the outlying areas, today calling themselves ISIS or ISIL or ASSHOLE, whatever. . .
no doubt , but this is another of the many Obama grand policies. The constitutional scholar is really just a tool and of course neighborhood criminal community organizer who uses your tax dollars against you. What a joke it all is.
I say fuck the CIA, Yemen and Obama and crew !
Wrap a daisycutter in bacon and drop It on on Yemen
Filet mignon des Yéménites enveloppé dans du bacon?
Que's pas agréable ...
You know more people live there then the ass clowns that make the news, right? Using your same logic I'd expect you'd be OK with a daisy cutter landing in your back yard, seeing as we have so fucking many ass clowns of our own.
For fucks sake what happens in that shit hole is NONE OF OUR GOD DAMNED BUSINESS. NONE. As in we (US) should fuck right off and worry about the 50 states instead of subsidizing security for the Saudis and Israelis. I'm not afraid of someone half a world away, no matter how many talking heads in the news or how many elected officials tell me I should. Molon Labe if those mother fuckers want to come to my house and play, but otherwise we should STAY THE FUCK HOME and MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS.
This shit makes me so fucking mad. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together could see this shit would happen from the get go, and the world is laughing at us like the chumps we are. Good god is our leadership stupid, captured, or just fucking traitors? Who am I kidding - all the above.
Ditto --- ALL OF THE ABOVE!
The US is kind of a nebulous word. Did Mr. Al-Queda say who gave him the money or didn't he.
Either usual CIA fund or Black Eagle Trust.
Al Q? Or CIA? Choose yourselves.
Al Q? Or CIA? Choose yourselves.
Al-Queefta, PISIS amazing names for these fake terrorist groups.
We're still sifting though 55,000 pages of Hillary Clinton State Department offline emails. Give us time to validate your claims.
If correct, you earn more credibility for future exposures.
Hitlery: as long as my bucks are in a safe offshore account, America can fuckin' burn.
Lick me, Huma.
Yes, Mistress.
Good god, poor Huma. Imagine that rotten skankhole on Hilary. Disgusting fat bitch
Al Qaeda was actually the name of Prescott Bush's driver.
He escaped being discovered because he spelled it Al Kada on his driver's license. Clever guy
I remember few years back an Australian TV show pulled a prank where they registered "Al Kada" and "Terry Wrist" as passengers, to have the names announced thoughout the airport when they didn't show up.
"Al Qaeda was actually the name of Prescott Bush's driver."
Actually I believe it was a computer file, a "list" of shitbags on a See Why AAA computer way back when, like a who's who of nefarious scumbuckets.
Do you mean to say this strategery started way back then?!
Gettin' awful hard to believe what's true and what's not, after all Fedgov NEVER lies to us, and informants are known to be honest upstanding shitizens, one and all.
Smells like bullshit to me.
Mission Accomplished then Duc!
It's a pretty good sign we're screwed when Al Jizzera is more credible than our own government...
A while back somebody here posted that Al Jazeera was a CIA start-up. After watching their shit for a while, I agree.
Al Jazeera=Anglo-American-Mossad double twist propaganda. I guess. (It's the age of confusion.)
You got that right, with one addendum: Al-Jazeera serves as a propaganda mouthpiece whitewashing Arab Sunni elites (read: House of Saud and their vassals).
In the actual case. it's quite obvious that now with Saleh being ousted he's the perfect fallguy, all you need is a planted 'reportage' of how he has been supporting Al-Qaeda for a looooong time without the knowledge of Saudis or the Empire. coughbullshitcough
Read this article from 2011, it clearly states that Houthi anger against Saleh's puppet government was caused by his support of continuous drone strikes, as well as the brutal and lethal suppression of protests in Yemen.
I should have known It's all a House of Mirrors now...
Government: "They lie about everything. Why would they lie about this?"
Conundrum: Since they can never be not lying, were they lying then, or are they lying now? Like a Mobius strip of lies--two sides, both lies.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Fake terror groups
Fake ZH
article written by Martin Swisher
just say'n
that was an ugly scene seeing our maraines marched out disarmed with weapons literally turned over to the enemy on orders from the Kenyan. http://www.ibtimes.co.in/us-marines-deny-handing-over-weapons-houthi-reb...
When Boehner gave the Kenyan treaty authority I jokingly thought to myself "WTF does the Kenyan have a video of Boehner raping a baby" after Hastert nothing would surprise me.
BTW Boehner was Haster's whip. (I know sounds kinky)
After leaving office according to Wiki Hastert worked for lobby firm Dickstein Shapiro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert
Boehner's daughter is married to an African, which he appeared to quite enjoy. He is SURELY Barak Hussein Obama's best ally in the House. BTW Abner Mikva, who was first appointed a Federal Judge by Jimmy Carter, said that Obama was the first Jewish president. I don't know if Rahm Israel Emanuel and David Axelrod also thought so...
Can it get any more fucked up?
Yes, definitely.
Yeman and Islamic territories have always been hostile to infidels (Americans) it was treason and greed we refueled the USS Coal in Yemen, attack was predictable, as predictable as the sun.
Yemen is home to countless tribes.
U.S. Worked with one tribe and expected others to just lay down and die for them.
Same as US is working with one Saud family in Saudi, and still supporting them against other tribes.
What do you expect?
While most commenters here refer to Yemenis as one entity, the reality can be better understood if we can just remember that we are all humans with simple interests.
That is to be left alone to pursue happiness in our own way.
Also, to remember that Yemenis are not in USA.
It is USA who is interfering in Yemen and all around the world.
Libya is the same, on artificially drawn out "country" was held togeether by a mad dictator, but is now reverting to tribal loyalties from centuries ago.
But wait! What if the actual foreign policy did not fail. What if this is the actual foreign policy:
A cheap way to conquer "inferior" people is to make them fight against each other. And of course, who* is not inferior to the USA?
(* Excluding Israel.)
Yes, the chaos in the Middle East has always been the goal of the policy. It cannot be otherwise, since no-one can be that stupid.
We're excluding Dubya from that statement tho, right ??
Washington’s tendency to pursue short-term, narrow-minded, geopolitical expediency at the expense of promoting long-term regional stability
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Washington is doing its damnedest to avoid regional stability, especially the long-term kind! That's why it's playing both sides, just like it did in the Iran-Iraq war, and for that matter in WW2.
Swords cost a thousand bucks and up. Ploughshares are a nickel a dozen.
USG are global terrorists - impeach 535 morons + ICiC for treason, fraud
The Saleh government was kidnapping oil and gas staff and ransoming them. The Al Houthis actually put a stop to this and security was better in the oil patch for the short term they had control. Course now force majuere has been declared and Yemen oil is kaput.
Well, the Yemen authorities at the time didn't have to deal with Hillary. The attack went in the right direction to get the funds or weapons that got the funds.....
Success == Gold Looted
from yet another nation.
What has America become?
A monster