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Falsely Designates Houthis as Terrorists, Increasing Civilian Hardshipby Doug Bandow Posted on
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent his final days in office committing political terrorism, planting foreign policy landmines to hinder incoming President Joe Biden. One of his cruelest actions was to charge the Yemeni Houthis with being a terrorist organization.
He cited missile attacks on civilian targets in Saudi Arabia. That is a war crime, not terrorism. Remember American and British terror bombing of Germany and Japan?
Moreover, Pompeo failed to mention almost six years of Saudi and Emirati bombing of civilian targets in Yemen. Using U.S.-provided warplanes serviced by American
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While we have little or no hope that the War party s administration (nominally) under Biden will be more honorable or less sociopathic than Trump s repugnant regime, it is hard to imagine it will have figures as stunningly odious as Mike Pompeo, one of he great criminals of our time, as is his nominal boss. Unprincipled and opportunistic to a fault, these two individuals are political malignancies of the first order, but, again, they did not spring on the political scene out of nowhere, their enablers were the Democrats, the same bunch that now has the audacity to strut around pretending to be made of a different, superior moral fabric.
United Nations officials took aim at the US plan to label Yemen's Houthis a foreign terrorist organization that relief groups say will imperil aid deliveries to the war-torn country.
مخاوف من تسبب القرار بمجاعة في اليمن الأمم المتحدة تحث أميركا على العدول عن تصنيف الحوثيين تنظيما إرهابيا aljazeera.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aljazeera.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
جلسة لمجلس الأمن أميركا تتعهد بالمساعدة ومخاوف دولية من تبعات تصنيف واشنطن الحوثيين تنظيما إرهابيا aljazeera.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aljazeera.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.