Last September, the French Directorate of Military Intelligence prepared a “highly classified” report on the Saudi war in Yemen to brief the “restricted council” of cabinet-level officials; the report has been obtained by the French media organization Disclose, which has published it jointly with The Intercept and four other French media organizations.
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US veterans operate in Yemen as mercenary assassins for Middle Eastern autocrats
The mercenary squads who carry out targeted assassinations in Yemen on behalf of the autocratic rulers of the UAE are composed of US veterans from elite units like the Green Berets, Navy SEALs, CIA “ground branch” and the special forces of the Maryland Army National Guard, working for the US-based mercenary company Spear Operations Group. Some of the mercenaries are reportedly still US military reservists, others have US top secret clearance.
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NYT: Saudi Arabia’s Prince Charming was Mister Bone Saw all along
Everybody knows that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the brutal killing and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (everybody, that is, except the Trumps, who coincidentally do a lot of business with the House of Saud) and the lurid brutality of that murder has prompted calls for western businesses to reconsider their increasingly cozy relationship with Mohammed bin Salman.
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Sean Spicer claims that Houthi rebel assault on Saudi frigate was an Iranian attack on a US warship
Houthi rebels from Yemen attacked a Saudi frigate; White House spokesman Sean Spicer falsely claimed that this was Iranian forces attacking a US Naval ship and thus an act of war; no one from the White House press corps corrected him or followed up.
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Censorship company drops bogus lawsuit against researchers who outed them
Netsweeper sells “internet filtering technology” — a tool that spies on users’ internet traffic and censors some of what they see — that is used by governments to control their populations, including the government of Yemen, which uses it to block its citizens’ access to material critical of its policies.
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Massive email leak reveals the worst bribery scandal in history
Reporters from Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post obtained a huge trove of email from Unaoil, a business run by a rich Monaco family, that reveal that the family ran a corrupt bribery empire that spanned the world’s oil-producing states, and that they world with companies like Rolls-Royce, Halliburton, Leighton Holding, Samsung and Hyundai, to rig contracts through a system of bribes and kickbacks that looted the national treasuries of some of the world’s poorest countries.
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An American in Yemen: unlikely and wonderful tourism
Polish-American software developer Maciej Cegłowski decided to take a holiday in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a, home to breathtaking, 600-year-old skyscrapers that look like gingerbread houses.
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