Yemen 2016 onwards: an intractable war?

[OUTLAW 09]

Finally now confirmed as the Trump WH had trumpeted the great highly successful Yemen raid dismissing anyone who critiqued it as being basically "unAmerican" and aiding IS......

BUT WAIT.....

"Pro-government tribal leader among dead in #US raid in #Yemen"
https://apnews.com/d927fc2962f44a6d8edf6a790b556bbc#

Yemen had initially indicated his killing BUT the Trump WH glossed over it by basically ignoring his killing by ST6....

Complicates even more Yemen...

[CrowBat]

Well, one can't really expect Trump & Co KG GesmbH to understand fine nuances of all the possible 'supporters of legitimacy'. On the contrary: it's unAmerican to behave that way.

Namely, imagine how brazen these Yemenis are: they have several big groups of Salafists - yes, SALAFISTS - fighting the AQAP!

Take that Dar al-Hadith network as example: these thugs consist of some five groups expelled by Houthis from their historical centre in Dammaj, back in early 2014. One of groups in question is calling itself the 'Islam Guard': that's both clearly making them terrorists, isn't it?

Anyway...They run away to Ta'izz, and played a dominant role in fighting the Houthis/YA during the siege. So, they are fighting the AQAP and the Houthis. Clearly, that's making them double and tripple terrorists, just for the sake of all the confusion such positions like theirs are causing.

And to make matters even worse: in the course of that battle they closely cooperated with various local groups (so-called 'Popular Resistance') including various Islah Party/Moslem Brotherhood groups - and this entirely without support from Hadi's 'government'. Nah, they dared entering direct cooperation with Saudis instead. Satisfied by their effectiveness, the Saudis then re-deployed one of groups to northern Yemen, and unleashed them upon the Sa'adah Province, where they secured the al-Buqa border crossing and the area...

Ah yes: and Emiratis took away another group, and are using it to fight the AQAP in Abyan, together with a number of other local tribes, nearly all of which are anti-AQAP (as should be known at least since the Battle of Zinjibar, back in 2011). And that's how comes a 'Hadi allies' tribal chief got killed in the US raid.

Complex, isn't it? All because these damn Yemenis don't want to agree that they are all terrorists...

[davidbfpo]

From The Soufan Report, citing one part of BLUF and a taut sentence later:

BLUF On March 2, the U.S. conducted 25 manned and unmanned airstrikes in Yemen targeting al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Conducting counterterrorism operations in the midst of a civil war requires combat within combat—an exceedingly difficult and dangerous task. The increase in U.S. operations in Yemen indicates the serious concern in Washington over the threat posed by AQAP.

Link:http://www.soufangroup.com/tsg-intel...ions-in-yemen/