The Associated Press has revealed that the US-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has made secret deals with the local Al Qaida affiliate, AQAP, even recruiting its militants to fight Houthi rebels. Saudi analyst Ali Al-Ahmed says that the US is not just looking the other way — it’s involved

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Why the US Silence over Saudi-Al Qaeda Alliance in Yemen?

by Aaron Maté, The Real News Network
August 8, 2018

<h1>Why the US Silence over Saudi-Al Qaeda Alliance in Yemen?</h1> <p class="byline">by Aaron Maté, The Real News Network <br />August 8, 2018</p> <p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biY4lVSxmvg</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">The Associated Press has revealed that the US-backed Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has made secret deals with the local Al Qaida affiliate, AQAP, even recruiting its militants to fight Houthi rebels. Saudi analyst Ali Al-Ahmed says that the US is not just looking the other way — it’s involved</span></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://therealnews.com/why-the-us-silence-over-saudi-al-qaeda-alliance-in-yemen&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://therealnews.com&quot;&gt;The Real News Network&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-TRNN-2021-logomark-square.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://therealnews.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=178365&amp;amp;ga4=G-7LYS8R7V51&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://therealnews.com/why-the-us-silence-over-saudi-al-qaeda-alliance-in-yemen&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/therealnews.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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