Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Weapons Smugling
Ask the fox to guard the henhouse, why dontcha. Saleh goes to Saudi Arabia.
Elaph, an Arab news website, quoted a Saudi government source as saying that Saleh’ visit managed to “save the day between Yemen and Saudi Arabia in the last minute”.
“The Saudis were very furious as the latest battles with terrorists in Saudi Arabia revealed that all weapons and explosives used by the Qaeda fighters were bought and smuggled from Yemeni arms markets. Confessions of those arrested shown that they use Yemen as a source of arms and transfer them over the border.”“The Saudis who became convinced that Yemen is unable to control the borders decided to raise the issue of Yemeni borders (open for arms and drugs smuggling) internationally, which caused the Yemeni president to fly hastily to Saudi Arabia to “solve” the issue”.
Unable or unwilling to stop arming al-Qaeda and smuggling drugs? What I can’t believe is the Saudis, who seem a bright bunch, are asking the guy who’s profiting from all this for his help. According to ad-Diplomasi, the link is here somewhere, Saleh has 20 billion dollars in German banks. And the Saudis believe him when he says he’ll end the smuggling? Maybe he’ll turn the weapons flow in another direction for a while. But thats not really solving the problem is it? Did I mention there’s an election soon?The Arab news reports Saudi Arabia did contact Interpol.
