Conflict in Yemen

Regular columnist David Lott, Englishman, a retired RAF pilot and both a participant and observer of British politics, reflects on Yemen, a conflicted state on the Arabian peninsula where a war with Saudi Arabia has been raging for over a year.  In the USA, news of this war and others has been largely pushed to the media's margins due to the on-going drama of the seemingly never-ending presidential campaign. - Glenn N. Holliman

Finding the Truth

By David Lott

As a sit-at-home observer without the means or inclination to travel the world to constantly gather information, it is very difficult to arrive at the truth. Whilst there has always been spin and dissimulation going back centuries, it is since Dr Goebbels propaganda that we have faced a massive overload of this intangible evil commodity. The age of the investigative reporter seems to have ceased altogether and the MSM will not touch any independent investigator. PR now stands for propaganda and no longer public relations.

I try to get nearest to the truth by observing what is not said rather than what is. To succeed at this one must troll through many media outlets around the world. I use US, UK, EU, French, Arab and Russian media outlets together with various on line news sources. Let me give you an example:

In the week before the last UK general election (2015) I saw on Al Jezeera TV (based in Qatar) that the UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was paying a visit to Saudi Arabia lasting some days. I noticed it because it was odd considering he would normally be madly campaigning on behalf of his Party in the final week before the polls. At that moment the polls were showing his Party was likely to lose the election or at best form a coalition or minority government.  So I looked for mention of his visit in the British press and TV news programmes but there was none.

So what, I asked myself, was he doing there? I was also aware from many sources that President Hadi of Yemen (The US approved Leader) had been defeated by not only the Iran backed Houthis but also Al Quaeda and those loyal to his predecessor. 

I guessed that an attack by Saudi Arabia against the opposition to President Hadi was pending and to which the UK Foreign Secretary was giving his blessing, a blessing that would last a mere 3 days if the Conservatives lost the election. Such a decision must also have the backing of the USA. I also suspected that a substantial arms deal was likely to have been concluded.

I wrote of my suspicions at the time but the UK media was obsessed with the election and its result, which turned out to be a surprise Conservative victory. 

Within a week of the election Saudi Arabia launched its attack on the Yemen, an attack using US and British weapons as I had predicted. I had not predicted they would employ British made cluster bombs against Houthi civilians; a little more on that subject later. The UN Security Council did not meet to approve this attack and for a long time the Yemen war took a back seat. It was eclipsed by those wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and the violence and mass movement of people through Libya to either drown in the Mediterranean or trek through Italy to reach the ‘promised land’ in the EU at Germany’s invitation.

Thus the technique of using what was NOT said produced an accurate prediction. Do try it yourselves; it is not difficult.

We hear much about the use of cluster bombs in Aleppo by Russian aircraft in Eastern Aleppo. The cluster bomb was designed as an anti-armour weapon and each bomblet had a shaped charge designed to penetrate armoured vehicles. The RAF Harriers used this weapon against Serbia. It was discovered that these bombs were very effective at creating an instant mini minefield. Civilian casualties on a very large scale resulted for obvious reasons as ordinary people set off the explosive having no idea they were passing through such dangerous ground. As a result of these awful civilian casualties the bomb was banned by the UN.

So how did these bombs get from store in the UK (where presumably they had been kept in or even possibly been newly manufactured) to the weapons station of a British made fighter aircraft in the Saudi Air Force? It had to have been part of the Philip Hammond’s deal with Saudi Arabia.

You can see why our masters keep this sort of thing quiet. All we can do is make sure they do not remain our masters for much longer. - David Lott, a founder of the United Kingdom Independent Party

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