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CAIR Condemns Biden Airstrikes on Yemen Houthis: ‘Illegally’ Endangering Lives
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement on Thursday sternly condemning President Joe Biden for approving airstrikes against the Houthi jihadist terror organization of Yemen, accusing him of “unnecessarily, illegally and dangerously risking the loss of more innocent lives.”
“We fail to understand why President Biden would rather risk a regional war by bombing Yemen instead of simply stopping the Gaza genocide that is fueling conflict across the world,” Nihad Awad, the executive director of CAIR, asserted.
United States Central Command (CENTCOM) and the British Defense Ministry confirmed the execution of dozens of strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen between Thursday and Friday, intended to neutralize the terrorist organization’s ability to disrupt international commercial shipping passing through the Red Sea.
U.S. and U.K. carry out airstrikes in Yemen: An RAF FGR4 Typhoon takes off from Royal Air Force (RAF) Akrotiri military airbase in Greek Cypriot to conduct its mission against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on January 12, 2024 (UK Ministry of Defence/Anadolu via Getty Images).
“Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces—together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands—successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen,” Biden said in a statement following the strikes, “used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways”:
The Houthis, who are not the legitimate government of Yemen, declared war on Israel to support Hamas following the invasion of Israel on October 7 and has aided the Sunni jihadist group by attacking commercial vessels passing through the region. The attacks have had a chilling effect on ship traffic through the Bab el-Mandab Strait near Yemen, triggering a 90 percent drop year-on-year in ship traffic in the region between January 2023 and January 2024.
This photo shows Houthi forces boarding the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Yemen’s Houthis have seized the ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen after threatening to seize all vessels owned by Israeli companies (Houthi Media Center via AP).
A Houthi spokesman had confirmed the group’s resolve to continue attacking ships in the region in statements published on Wednesday – while simultaneously claiming the United States was “misleading the world about dangers threatening international navigation in these seas.”
“More killing is not the solution to this crisis. Ending Netanyahu’s genocidal war on the people of Gaza and securing a just, lasting peace by ending the occupation is the solution,” Awad, the head of CAIR, the largest Muslim advocacy group in the United States, said in his statement.
“This president is unnecessarily, illegally and dangerously risking the loss of more innocent lives – including the lives of Americans – for the sake of the genocidal Israeli government, all without approval from Congress,” Awad’s statement continued:
CAIR is planning an event in Washington, DC, on Saturday in opposition to Israel’s self-defense operations against Hamas in the aftermath of the October 7 invasion. The event is scheduled to include remarks from two presidential candidates running against Biden – Jill Stein and Cornel West – in addition to other high-profile radical leftists.
The Houthis attempted to violently seize power against the legitimate government of Yemen in 2014, triggering a civil war that remains ongoing to this day, though the Houthis control most of the country. They are an Iran-backed Shiite operation whose slogan is “Allahu Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.”
Yemen’s Houthi loyalists take part in an armed parade for more than 20,000 members who have finished a military course, staged to show their willingness to battle any potential attack by the recently created coalition by the U.S., on December 20, 2023, in Amran province, Yemen. Yemen’s Houthi movement leader has warned that they would attack US ships in the Middle East if Washington waged war against them (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images).
The Houthi terror organization, which calls itself Ansarullah, dramatically increased its ability to obtain funding in early 2021 after the inauguration of President Biden, whose administration removed them from the State Department’s list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The removal allowed for hundreds of millions of dollars in “humanitarian aid” to pour into Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, including from the U.S. government.
Houthi leaders became involved in the conflict between Hamas and the Israeli government in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks, in which Hamas terrorists stormed Israel and engaged in door-to-door raids on random families, killing babies, gang raping and executing women, torturing victims, and desecrating their corpses. The terrorists filmed many of their atrocities to share on social media, uploading videos of the bodies of their victims to the victims’ social media accounts. Israeli officials estimated Hamas killed 1,200 people and maintain more than 120 hostages in Gaza.
CAIR and its affiliates have enthusiastically opposed Israeli operations to prevent another attack. On October 7, the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella organization including CAIR, published a statement condemning “the recent unprovoked and continuous attacks by Israel on Palestinian towns, cities, and refugee camps.”
“We condemn Israel’s targeted and indiscriminate killing of civilians, including innocent children, women, and the elderly, and we denounce the inhumane siege imposed on the nearly 2 million inhabitants of Gaza,” the statement read, “a clear violation of international law and an implied declaration of open war on the Palestinians which oblige them to be in constant self-defense.”
CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding operation.
Turkey Launches Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria After Deadly Attack on Military Base
ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. This comes a day after an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq killed nine Turkish soldiers.
Turkey often launches strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq it believes to be affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a banned Kurdish separatist group that has waged insurgency against Turkey since the 1980s.
The defense ministry said aircraft struck targets in Metina, Hakurk, Gara and Qandil in north Iraq, but didn’t specify areas in Syria. It said fighter jets destroyed caves, bunkers, shelters and oil facilities “to eliminate terrorist attacks against our people and security forces … and to ensure our border security.” The statement added “many” militants were “neutralized” in the strikes.
On Friday night, attackers attempted to infiltrate a military base in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, killing five soldiers. Four others died later of critical injuries. The Turkish Defense Ministry said 15 militants were also killed.
There was no immediate comment from the PKK, the government in Baghdad or the Kurdish region’s administration.
Turkey launched Operation Claw-Lock in northern Iraq in April 2022, during which it established several bases in Duhok Governorate. Baghdad has repeatedly protested the presence of Turkish troops and called for their withdrawal.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan expressed his condolences for the deaths of the Turkish soldiers on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
“We will fight to the end against the PKK terrorist organization within and outside our borders,” he wrote.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to hold a security meeting in Istanbul later Saturday, Fahrettin Altun, the president’s communications director, wrote on X.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced police had detained 113 people suspected of ties to the PKK following raids across 32 Turkish provinces.
He added that four people were arrested after police identified 60 social media accounts that “praised the separatist terrorist organization for provocative purposes” or had spread misleading information.
Three weeks ago, PKK-affiliated militants tried to break into a Turkish base in northern Iraq, according to Turkish officials, leaving six soldiers dead. The following day, six more Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes.
Turkey retaliated by launching strikes against sites that officials said were associated with the PKK in Iraq and Syria. Defense Minister Yasar Guler said at the time that dozens of Kurdish militants were killed in airstrikes and land assaults.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Friday night’s attack and the one three weeks earlier targeted the same base. The Rudaw news website, based in Erbil in northern Iraq, reported that the base attacked on Friday was located on Mount Zap in Amedi district, which lies 17 kilometers (10 miles) from the Turkish border.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu said a senior PKK militant was “neutralized” in Iraq. Faik Aydin was targeted in an operation run by the Turkish intelligence agency, or MIT, some 160 kilometers (100 miles) inside the Turkey-Iraq frontier, Anadolu reported.
The PKK, which maintains bases in northern Iraq, is considered a terror organization by Turkey’s Western allies, including the United States. Tens of thousands of people have died since the start of the conflict in 1984.
Turkey and the U.S., however, disagree on the status of the Syrian Kurdish groups, which have been allied with Washington in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria.
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Saudis Bombed Houthis in Yemen for Years, Now Urge U.S. to Show ‘Restraint’
The government of Saudi Arabia issued a statement calling for “restraint and avoiding escalation” on Friday in response to American and British airstrikes in Yemen against the Shiite Houthi terrorists controlling that country.
“While the Kingdom stresses the importance of preserving the security and stability of the Red Sea region, in which freedom of navigation is an international demand [and of] interest of the entire world,” a statement from the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs reads, “[Saudi Arabia] calls for restraint and avoiding escalation in light of the events the region is witnessing.”
The statement described the Saudi government as watching the developments with “great concern.”
Saudi Arabia has engaged in military action against the Houthis in Yemen for nearly a decade, since the eruption of a civil war there in 2014. Riyadh has faced years of global condemnation from human rights organizations for its operations in the country, which some activists have labeled “war crimes.”
The U.S. and U.K. armed forces confirmed dozens of strikes within Yemeni territory between Thursday and Friday on strategic targets including “radar systems, air defense systems, and storage and launch sites for one-way attack unmanned aerial systems, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles,” according to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). CENTCOM published a video of the strikes, which are a response to the Houthis severely disrupting global commercial shipping by randomly attacking container vessels attempting to transit through the Red Sea.
Houthi leaders responded to the attacks by declaring they would expand their terrorist activities against London and Washington.
“Washington and London must acknowledge responsibility for aggravating the situation at the Red Sea, and the militarization of the body of water,” Brigadier General Abdullah bin Amer, a Houthi leader in the terror group’s “Moral Guidance Department,” said on Friday, according to the Iranian state propaganda outlet PressTV. “They must be ready to embrace a heavy price, and bear all the deleterious consequences of this open aggression.”
The Houthis – an Iran-backed, Shiite jihadist organization that launched a civil war against the legitimate government of Yemen in 2014 – declared war on Israel in October as a gesture of support to Hamas, a Sunni terrorist organization also bankrolled by Iran. As part of that war, Houthi leaders announced they would attack commercial shipping vessels transiting the Red Sea, vowing to target only ships with ties to Israel. In reality, however, the terrorists have attempted drone attacks on ships with no significant relationship to Israel and prompted a significant percentage of shipping to reroute away from the region, taking the much longer route around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
Prior to the group’s rising prominence as a disrupter of global trade, the Houthis engaged in direct bombings of Saudi Arabia in response to Riyadh’s support for the legitimate government of Yemen that the terrorists overthrew. Some of the most dramatic bombings occurred in 2022, when the Houthis escalated attacks on Saudi oil facilities. In March of that year, Houthi drone and missile strikes on the city of Jeddah caused a massive fire at an Aramco oil tank facility near the site of an F1 car race.
The Houthis “put into question our ability to supply the world with the necessary energy requirements,” Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman warned that month.
“In the old days, we, along with our friends here in the UAE, worked on a collective effort to assure and ensure energy security. These pillars are no longer there,” Bin Salman said, an apparent reference to the absence of American support under Biden.
The administration of Joe Biden opposed Saudi Arabia’s involvement against the Houthis in Yemen, limiting sales of “offensive” weapons to the presumed U.S. ally and removing the Houthis from the State Department’s list of designated foreign terrorist organizations. The delisting allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to pour into Houthi-controlled Yemen.
The concessions to the Houthis – a group whose slogan is “Allahu Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam” – were some of Biden’s first actions as president in 2021.
Biden reportedly considered allowing offensive weapons sales to Saudi Arabia again in 2022, but ultimately took no publicly known action.
Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, an influential member of the royal family, said in May 2022:
Saudis consider the relationship as being strategic, but (feel) as being let down at a time when we thought that America and Saudi Arabia should be together in facing what we would consider to be a joint, not just irritant, but danger to the stability and security of the area.
“The fact that President Biden delisted the Houthis from the terrorist list has emboldened them and made them even more aggressive in their attacks on Saudi Arabia, as well as on the UAE,” he added.
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