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Hodeidah, Yemen (CNN) – Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners have transferred American-made weapons to al Qaeda-linked fighters, hardline Salafi militias, and other factions waging war in Yemen, in violation of their agreements with the United States, a CNN investigation has found.
The weapons have also made their way into the hands of Iranian-backed rebels battling the coalition for control of the country, exposing some of America's sensitive military technology to Tehran and potentially endangering the lives of US troops in other conflict zones.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, its main partner in the war, have used the US-manufactured weapons as a form of currency to buy the loyalties of militias or tribes, bolster chosen armed actors, and influence the complex political landscape, according to local commanders on the ground and analysts who spoke to CNN.
The exclusive report details how Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates, routinely transfers U.S. supplied weapons to terror groups, including AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), and Iranian-backed militias, who in turn send the weapons on to Iran for examination and possible reverse engineering.
In most cases the equipment, not merely guns or ammunition, has export labels on it indicating it cannot be transferred to third parties.
In one instance, in late 2015, forces loyal to Saudi Arabia and the UAE boasted on government-backed media, the Saudis had air dropped American-made TOW anti-tank missiles in an area where AQAP was known to operate.
The articles details other instances of U.S. weapons falling into or being delivered to forces not authorized to have such weapons, yet the con artist continues to insist selling weapons to Saudi Arabia just makes good business sense.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/02/middleeast/yemen-lost-us-arms/
The weapons have also made their way into the hands of Iranian-backed rebels battling the coalition for control of the country, exposing some of America's sensitive military technology to Tehran and potentially endangering the lives of US troops in other conflict zones.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, its main partner in the war, have used the US-manufactured weapons as a form of currency to buy the loyalties of militias or tribes, bolster chosen armed actors, and influence the complex political landscape, according to local commanders on the ground and analysts who spoke to CNN.
The exclusive report details how Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates, routinely transfers U.S. supplied weapons to terror groups, including AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), and Iranian-backed militias, who in turn send the weapons on to Iran for examination and possible reverse engineering.
In most cases the equipment, not merely guns or ammunition, has export labels on it indicating it cannot be transferred to third parties.
In one instance, in late 2015, forces loyal to Saudi Arabia and the UAE boasted on government-backed media, the Saudis had air dropped American-made TOW anti-tank missiles in an area where AQAP was known to operate.
The articles details other instances of U.S. weapons falling into or being delivered to forces not authorized to have such weapons, yet the con artist continues to insist selling weapons to Saudi Arabia just makes good business sense.
In the wake of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi murder last year, Trump said it would be foolish for the US to cancel multi-billion dollar arms deals with the Saudis. "I don't want to lose all of that investment being made into our country," he said.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/02/middleeast/yemen-lost-us-arms/
