{"id":41,"date":"2010-01-29T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-01-29T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:12:20","slug":"us-in-secret-yemen-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/01\/29\/41\/","title":{"rendered":"US in Secret Yemen Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"us-yemen\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/us-yemen.jpeg\" width=\"283\" height=\"240\" \/>CAIRO \u2013 American military teams and intelligence agencies are involved in secret joint military operations with Yemeni troops that killed scores of Al-Qaeda people in recent weeks.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are very pleased with the direction this is going,&#8221; a senior administration official told the Washington Post on Wednesday, January 27, requesting anonymity for the sensitivity of the information.<br \/>The joint military operations begun six weeks ago and were approved by US President Barack Obama.<br \/>They involve several dozen troops from the clandestine Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), whose main mission is tracking and killing suspected terrorists.<br \/>The Americans, who do not take part in the actual attacks, help plan missions, develop tactics and provide weapons and munitions.<br \/>They provide the Yemenis with highly sensitive intelligence, including electronic and video surveillance, as well as three-dimensional terrain maps.<br \/>The operations included a strike, authorized by Obama, on a compound where Anwar al-Aulaqi, an American of Yemeni origin, was thought to be meeting with al-Qaeda leaders.<br \/>The joint efforts have resulted in more than two dozen ground raids and strikes in the past six weeks, in which scores of people, including six regional al-Qaeda leaders, were killed.<br \/>&#8220;Information sharing has been a key in carrying out recent successful counterterrorism operations,&#8221; a Yemeni official told the Post.<br \/>He added that the two countries maintained a &#8220;steadfast cooperation&#8221; in combating al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).<br \/>The US has voiced increasing concern about Al-Qaeda existence in Yemen since a botched attack on a US-bound airliner which was claimed by the AQAP.<\/p>\n<p>New Strategy <br \/>The joint secret operations were seen as proof of Obama&#8217;s counterterrorism strategy, which is based on closely working with foreign partners.<br \/>&#8220;President [Ali Abdullah] Saleh was serious about going after al-Qaeda and wasn&#8217;t going to resist our encouragement,&#8221; the senior US security official said.<br \/>The broad US involvement in Yemen came to light recently through a series of visits by high-level American military officials.<br \/>They included the rarely seen JSOC commander, Vice Adm. William H. McRaven, White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan and Gen. David H. Petraeus, head of US Central Command.<br \/>The Obama strategy of working with foreign partners is seen as a sharp contrast to the do-it-alone counterterrorism policies of the Bush administration.<br \/>But the far-reaching US military role in Yemen could backfire for the Saleh regime, especially that tribal, political and religious groups resent American interference.<br \/>Several prominent Yemeni scholars had threatened to declare war if American troops were sent to Yemen.<br \/>Smelling trouble, Saleh has repeatedly reaffirmed opposition to Western intervention in his country&#8217;s fight against al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>IslamOnline.net &amp; Newspapers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO \u2013 American military teams and intelligence agencies are involved in secret joint military operations with Yemeni troops that killed scores of Al-Qaeda people in recent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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