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-- replaced the democratically elected Honduran president with a fascist regime;
-- engineered Duvalierist Michel Martelly's election as Haiti's new president; and
-- plans greater war for total dominance, no matter the consequences and human toll, including a once secret, now open one on Yemen.
What's at stake? At most, Yemen has four billion proved barrels of oil reserves and modest amounts of natural gas, hardly a reason for war. More important is its strategic location near the Horn of Africa on Saudi Arabia's southern border, the Red Sea, its Bab el- Mandeb strait (a key chokepoint separating Yemen from Eritrea through which three million barrels of oil pass daily), and the Gulf of Aden connection to the Indian Ocean.
As a result, at Washington's behest, Saudi forces began bombing and deploying tanks against Yemen in early November 2009. Hundreds were killed or wounded, many thousands displaced. In addition, a rebel group called the Young Believers said US jets struck Yemen's northwest Sa'ada Province multiple times, and Britain's Daily Telegraph reported US Special Forces covertly training its army.
In January 2010, the Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed Pentagon official saying a significant Special Forces increase was planned, explaining it "will be a much more robust effort pretty much across the board."
On June 8, 2011, New York Times writer Mark Mazzetti headlined, "US Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes," saying:
The Obama administration "intensified (America's) covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials."
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