'Yemen to let US set up air base on its soil'

[jesuitsdidit]

Yemen's government is to allow the US to set up a military base on its territory, a political analyst says.

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'Yemen to let US set up air base on its soil'
Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:05:14 GMT

picPolitical analyst Ali Al-Ahmed

Yemen's government is to allow the US to set up a military base on its territory, a political analyst says.

The US can no longer rely on Yemen's government to fight al-Qaeda because it is losing its legitimacy and becoming weaker, Ali Al-Ahmed, a political analyst, told Press TV on Wednesday.

Al-Ahmed added that his sources have revealed that the Yemeni government has decided to let the US military establish the air base on an island called Socotra located off the coast of Yemen.

According to the Saudi scholar, the island is a natural wildlife refuge. The information about the US air base will be made public in the next few weeks.

Al-Ahmed is the founder and director of an independent think-tank in Washington, D.C. focused on providing analyses and disseminating information on political issues in the Persian Gulf region, particularly Saudi Arabia, and the US's relations with the regional countries.

[motleyhoo]

All part of the Cheney/Powell Base Force initiative written up back in the 90s, which basically calls for building military bases all over the Middle East and elsewhere to secure "US interests" (oil). The war in Iraq is part of this, as is Afganistan, as is Yemen, and fits in perfectly since it was long ago leaked that they were looking at maps of global oil fields during the famous secret Energy Task Force meeting that Cheney had back in the early part of Bush's 1st Presidency. Protecting the US from terrorism is the face they put on it to appease the sheeple masses. It's not imperialsim because the US does not engage in imperialism. We are only here to help make the world a better place.

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