23, November 2015
Saudi Arabia
The Obama administration has intensified its trade with Saudi Arabia
ignoring warnings that it is guilty of massive war crimes and human rights
violations in Yemen. The sale includes 84 new Boeing F-15 aircraft, 70 of
Boeing's Apache attack helicopters and 36 of its AH-6M Little Birds. In
addition, the deal will include 72 Black Hawk helicopters.
Amnesty International and Human Rights
Watch has called for the United States to halt arm shipments to Saudi Arabia or
risk being complicit in war crimes in Yemen where Saudi Arabia is continuing its intensive bombing campaign against the
Houthi rebels. Thousands of civilians have died under the heavy Saudi
onslaught.
It is past time to file divorce papers
and sever all connection to this xenophobic regime which exemplifies a harsh
Islamic orthodoxy that is extremely misogynistic, homophobic, intolerant of
other religions and excessively cruel in its archaic system of justice and
punishment. Sadly, the defense contractors in Britain and the US see Saudi
Arabia as a cash cow who will continue to purchase huge quantities of weapons
to expand their medieval Islamic Wahhabism round the world. The U.S. has truly lost the moral high ground in
its ongoing support of the Saudi monarchy. We seem to have conveniently forgotten that 15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudi nationals.
The lead author of the Senate’s report on 9/11
says it’s time to reveal what’s in the 28 pages that were redacted from it.
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