January 25, 2016
Saudi Arabia has engaged in war crimes, and the United States is aiding and abetting them by providing the Saudis with military assistance. In September 2015, Saudi aircraft killed 135 wedding celebrants in Yemen. The air strikes have killed 2,800 civilians, including 500 children. Human Rights Watch charges that these bombings “have indiscriminately killed and injured civilians.”
This conflict is part of a regional power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are bombing Yemen in order to defeat the Houthi rebels, who have been resisting government repression for a long time. Iran has been accused of supporting the Houthis, although Iran denies this. Yemen is strategically located on a narrow waterway that links the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea. Much of the world’s oil passes through this waterway.
A United Nations panel of experts concluded in October 2015 that the Saudi-led coalition had committed “grave violations” of civilians’ human rights. They include indiscriminate attacks; targeting markets, a camp for displaced Yemenis, and humanitarian aid warehouses; and intentionally preventing the delivery of humanitarian assistance. The panel was also concerned that the coalition considered civilian neighborhoods, including Marra and Sadah, as legitimate strike zones. The International Committee of the Red Cross documented 100 attacks on hospitals.
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In an interesting twist, the Saudis contributed $10 million to the Clinton Foundation before Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State. In 2011, the year after the State Department had documented myriad serious human rights violations by Saudi Arabia, Hillary oversaw a $29 billion sale of advanced fighter jets to the Saudis, declaring it was in our national interest. The deal was “a top priority” for Hillary, according to Andrew Shapiro, an assistant secretary of state. Two months before the deal was clinched, Boeing, manufacturer of one of the fighter jets the Saudis sought to acquire, contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary now says the U.S should pursue “closer strategic cooperation” with Saudi Arabia.
Full article:
http://marjoriecohn.com/saudi-arabia-is-killing-civilians-with-us-bombs/
kgnu_fan (2,541 posts)
Voters would benefit from knowing what foreign leaders #Clinton is talking to
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511489568
One of the ties that has bound Clinton and the Saudis is the Clinton Foundation, which the Saudis donated at least $10 million to when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. During the time the donations were made billions of dollars worth of US military equipment went to the regime. The beneficiary of one of the arms deals, Boeing, also contributed to the Clinton Foundation.
But it didn’t stop there. According to the International Business Times, “Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents.” Pay to play?
The voters would likely benefit from knowing who former Secretary Clinton is communicating with regarding the election and what kind of deals she is cutting based on the event she takes the presidency.
https://shadowproof.com/2016/03/14/clinton-claims-she-will-defeat-trump-with-support-of-foreign-leaders/
Cheese Sandwich (6,851 posts)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511329815
Hillary urged war plane sales while Saudi Kingdom and Boeing donated to Clinton Foundation
Emails Show Hillary Clinton Aides Celebrating F-15 Sales to Saudi Arabia: “Good News”
Bombs dropped by fighter jets are pulverizing Yemen’s architectural history, possibly in violation of international humanitarian law.
A few years earlier, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made weapons transfer to the Saudi government a “top priority,” according to her closest military aide.
And now, newly released emails show that her aides kept her well-informed of the approval process for a $29.4 billion sale in 2011 of up to 84 advanced F-15SA fighters, manufactured by Boeing, along with upgrades to the pre-existing Saudi fleet of 70 F-15 aircraft and munitions, spare parts, training, maintenance, and logistics.
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David Sirota and Andrew Perez have previously reported for the International Business Times that Clinton’s State Department was heavily involved in approving weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. As weapons transfers were being approved, both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Boeing made donations to the Clinton Foundation. The Washington Post revealed that a Boeing lobbyist helped with fundraising in the early stages of Hillary Clinton’s current presidential campaign.
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https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/saudi-christmas-present/
Emails Show Hillary Clinton Aides Celebrating F-15 Sales to Saudi Arabia: “Good News”
Lee Fang
Feb. 22 2016, 12:50 p.m.
The shockingly brutal Saudi air campaign in Yemen has been led by American-made F-15 jet fighters.
The
indiscriminate bombing of civilians and rescuers from the air has prompted human rights organizations to claim that some Saudi-led strikes on Yemen may amount to war crimes. At least 2,800 civilians have been killed in the conflict so far,
according to the United Nations —
mostly by airstrikes. The strikes have killed
journalists and
ambulance drivers.
The planes, made by Boeing, have been implicated in the bombing of
three facilities supported by Doctors Without Borders (Médicins Sans Frontières). The U.N. Secretary General
has decried “intense airstrikes in residential areas and on civilian buildings in Sanaa, including the chamber of commerce, a wedding hall, and a center for the blind,” and has warned that reports of cluster bombs being used in populated areas “may amount to a war crime due to their indiscriminate nature.”
The deal was finalized on Christmas Eve 2011. Afterward, Jake Sullivan, then Clinton’s deputy chief of staff and now a senior policy adviser on her presidential campaign, sent her a celebratory email string topped with the chipper message: “FYI — good news.”
The
email string was part of a
new batch of emails from Clinton’s private server, made public on Friday evening as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
Full article:
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/saudi-christmas-present/
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