US helps Saudi allies in Yemen genocide: Analyst
Press TV has conducted an interview with Scott Bennett, a former US army psychological warfare officer from San Francisco, and Jim Walsh, with Security Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Boston, to discuss the deployment of US Special Forces to Yemen amid the deadly Saudi war on the impoverished Arab state.
Bennett said the US is assisting Saudi Arabia in its “genocide” in Yemen by providing the Riyadh military with arms and intelligence as well as carrying out drone operations against what it calls al-Qaeda targets in the Arabian Peninsula state.
Such support, the analyst says, is aimed at quenching the Saudi regime’s wrath over US foreign policy and dissuading the kingdom from selling off $750 billion in Washington’s assets in protest at a US Congress bill that urges the White House to declassify data on Riyadh’s role in 9/11 attacks.
“The US is backing Saudi Arabia’s financing of terrorism. It is backing Saudi Arabia’s financing of al-Qaeda and it is using the mercenary ISIS (Daesh) Wahhabist Salafist cult as a mercenary army to do America and Israel’s dirty work. It is really simple as that. American people do not agree with that,” he further noted.
However, Jim Walsh rejected the term “genocide” for the Saudi war on Yemen and lambasted as “crazy accusations” the claims on US support for extremist groups in the Middle East.
By helping Saudi Arabia, the US is just trying to stand by its own traditional ally and this is what any other country would do when one of its partners needs assistance, he argued.
“My guess is that this is part of some broader sort of agreement and understanding between the US and Saudi Arabia,” he added.
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