March 26, 2015 | Quote

Saudi Arabia is Bombing Iran-backed Rebels in Yemen Who Just Plundered US Intelligence Files

“The only thing the US can really do is continue a limited campaign of drone strikes against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and try to encourage the the Gulf States to do something on Hadi's behalf,” Oren Adaki, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider.

The Gulf States or the US are driving events in Yemen to far less of a degree than the region's most extreme elements. The revolutionary regime in Tehran has pledged a year's worth of oil to the Houthis, and a shipment of 185 tons of Iranian arms arrived in Yemen on March 20. Houthi fighters have received training in Iran and Lebanon, raising fears that Tehran plans on exporting its brand of revolutionary Shi'ite Islam to a place that has traditionally practiced a far different strain of Shi'ism than the one the Islamic Republic promotes.

Worryingly, the group that's been most effective at fighting the Houthis hasn't been the disintegrating Yemeni state or the uniformed military. It's been Al Qaeda and its various Sunni tribal allies.

 

“Unfortunately the vanguard of Sunnis in Yemen has been Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is a very bad development for the US and the broader region,” says Adaki.

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