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L'embrasement du Proche-Orient alimente des publications apocalyptiques. Certaines théories sont farfelues, mais d'autres, plus ambiguës, s'appuient sur des événements récents pour susciter la peur et alimenter les tensions. Des images montrant le transport de bombes atomiques factices sur une base américaine ont été vues des millions de fois. Différents comptes s'en servent pour soutenir l'idée qu'une guerre nucléaire est toute proche. Une vidéo sortie de son contexte. Les images sont impressionnantes. Un convoi de véhicules militaires lourdement chargés de missiles croisières passent devant un alignement de bombardiers stratégiques américains. Les mécaniciens accrochent ensuite cet armement sous les ailes d'un B-52.La vidéo a fait le tour des réseaux, accompagnée de commentaires comme « Alerte 3e guerre mondiale, les tensions au Moyen-Orient s'intensifient, les B52 sont chargés d'ogives nucléaires  ». Sur YouTube, un autre compte veut laisser croire que ces bombardiers « arrivent en Ukraine ». Sur un troisième, d'origine turque, ces mêmes images ont été vues plus d'un million de fois. On peut y lire que « les bombardiers américains se sont posés sur la base de l'Otan d'Incirlik » dans le sud du pays. Mais toutes ces publications sont trompeuses.  Une scène filmée aux États-Unis La cellule Info vérif de RFI est parvenue à géolocaliser cette vidéo. Ce qui nous a mis sur la piste, c'est le code inscrit sur la queue des bombardiers. Sur certains, on peut lire « MT ». C'est le tail code : l'immatriculation pour Minot Air Force Base dans le Dakota du Nord. Il s'agit d'une base stratégique américaine, c'est-à-dire une base de bombardiers nucléaires. Après recoupements, en nous appuyant sur des images satellites grand public, nous avons déterminé précisément l'endroit où cette vidéo a été tournée. On retrouve en effet les murs d'enceinte ocre, le positionnement des éclairages et les avions stationnés sur le parking.Un exercice régulier Après vérifications, la vidéo remonte au 4 avril dernier. Nous l'avons retrouvée sur le site internet de l'agence de presse vidéo de la Défense américaine. Dix jours donc avant les frappes iraniennes sur Israël. Cela ne peut donc pas constituer une réponse américaine aux tirs de drones et de missiles iraniens puisque la vidéo est antérieure à cet événement. En fait, il s'agit des images d'un exercice destiné à entrainer les armuriers de l'US Air Force avec des munitions factices. Si l'on remonte dans les archives du Strategic Command, (le commandement de la dissuasion nucléaire aux États-Unis), on constate que des exercices identiques ont déjà été conduits en 2023 et 2022 et même auparavant…Ambiguïtés Comment souvent les auteurs d'infox mélangent le vrai et le faux et jouent sur les peurs du public. Dans un contexte de tensions persistantes, pour l'armée américaine, diffuser de telles images, c'est évidemment envoyer un message sur sa capacité de riposte ou d'intervention à l'échelle globale. Les missiles sur la vidéo représentent des engins (AGM-86)  nucléaires ou conventionnels en fonction de leurs versions. Pour schématiser, ils ont la même forme, mais leur emploi n'est pas le même. Enfin, ceux qui apparaissent sur le film sont factices. Les manipulations avec de vraies armes nucléaires restent secrètes pour des raisons de sécurité opérationnelle. Les comptes pourvoyeurs de fausses informations parient sur le manque de connaissances ou de discernement du public pour faire passer leurs messages anxiogènes. Le concept de la dissuasion atomique répond en réalité à des codes précis sur la doctrine d'emploi, mais aussi sur la communication vers le public ou l'adversaire.  Rassurer les alliésLe bombardier B-52 conçu durant la guerre froide, renvoie au traumatisme du Vietnam, mais est aujourd'hui encore un symbole de la puissance américaine. Des démonstrations de force de bombardiers américains dans le voisinage de l'Ukraine, dans le cadre des mesures de réassurance de l'Otan en Baltique et en Europe centrale, sont fréquentes. Contrairement à ce qu'écrivent les auteurs de contenus trompeurs, ces avions ne se posent pas en Ukraine pour aller bombarder les soldats russes.Enfin, il y avait le 15 avril, des bombardiers américains de passage à Incirlik en Turquie, mais il s'agissait de B-1, et non de B-52 comme le suggèrent les post cités plus haut. Leurs auteurs ont simplement superposé des affirmations erronées sur une vidéo sortie de son contexte. Ajoutons que techniquement, le B-1B est désormais dépourvu de capacité nucléaire. Toutes ces informations sont accessibles au plus grand nombre. Elles permettent d'y voir clair dans le brouillard de la désinformation, à condition de ne pas se laisser submerger par les émotions. 

Buy a tee! https://www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/magnum-classic-teeSupport me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh00:00:00 - Introduction00:01:30 lessons learned from Op. Granby?00:05:00 Personal attitude towards going on operations in the Tornado00:09:00 Incirlik detachment flying recon00:15:20 any interest from Iraqi IADS?00:17:26 the political picture and “down days”00:23:00 did going to combat provide validation?00:27:00 the human costs of going to war00:33:20 returning from detachment and training continues 00:37:15 confidence in the ECM suite of the Tornado00:40:30 utility of the training range?00:44:40 Skyshadow pod00:47:50 Maritime role & Sea Eagle01:01:20 Sea Eagle vs the threat01:06:20 Nukes still a thing?01:07:50 “force culture”/CRM/workload01:14:30 did relying on the Navigator lead to pilot skill atrophy?01:20:00 when the shit hits the fan…01:26:00 GR4 improvements, LRMTS & NAVFLIR01:35:40 could Tornado work in Ukraine scenario?01:44:40 TFR - using it, deciphering it, NVGs in the mix01:57:00 trust in the system?Support the show

This edition features stories on two F-16 Fighting Falcons from Shaw Air Base colliding during a training exercise, First Lady Michelle Obama addressing the hardships service members face daily and visiting Eglin Air Base, a base housing unit at Incirlik, Turkey, being turned into a learning environment for the base fire department's safety program, how Airman at Spangdahlem Air Base use a different way of ensuring the flight line remains mission ready, how some injured veterans use art as a medium to help in their healing, and how Air Combat Command (ACC) is pioneering a new way to get troops to their destinations. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

This edition features stories on the Air Force taking its unmanned aerial system [UAS] program to the next level with the help of NASA with the launching of the X-37B UAS on Earth Day 2010, the Airmen and Family Readiness Center at Incirlik Air Base hosting a contingency readiness education event, Airmen from around the U.S. participating in this year's Arctic Care in Kotzebue, Alaska, Airmen stationed at Spangdahlem, Germany, receiving a visit from representatives from the U.S. Consulate, which helped them streamline processing their passports, and the Falconry program at the Air Force Academy. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

This edition features stories on U.S. and Iraqi service members at Kirkuk Air Base putting together a memorial run fund raiser for fallen comrades, Incirlik Air Base opening Facebook and Twitter pages, a combat medic Soldier who saved an Airman while coming under fire during a mission. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

This edition features stories on the Senate confirming Erin Conaton as Undersecretary of the Air Force, Major Gen. Judy Fedder, a female Airman who has helped progress women's role in the Air Force in over three decades of service, U.S. and Italian firefighters at Aviano Air Base training on how to safely extract pilots and properly deal with the toxic chemical hydrazine that powers aircraft backup units when things go wrong in the air, explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) Airmen at Incirlik Air Base simulating real-world operations based on situations from Iraq and Afghanistan during a ruck march, military inspection teams inspecting local markets to ensure Airmen are informed about what is legal for purchase, and the window opening for first-term Airmen job retraining. Hosted by Airman 1st Class Alina Richard.

This edition features stories on Provincial Reconstruction Team members helping Afghan girls by improving their existing learning environments, a Diversity Day celebration at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, service members accruing tax-free leave while deployed, a new recycling program for Southwest Asia, a radio disc jockey that keeps the Afghan people informed and entertained, an Airman who is an Engagement Coordinator stationed at Ramstein, Germany, helping bridge the cultural gap between the U.S. and Africa. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

This edition features stories on the 50th anniversary of the United States, Japan Security Alliance, the at Incirlik Air Base library donated books program and how it helps Airmen pass time while they await their flights at the passenger terminal, Misawa Air Base holding a Duathalon at Misawa Air Base, a couple participating together in a weight-loss competition, and Regional Support Team-East service members providing school supplies for Afghan children. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

This edition features stories on Malmstrom Air Force Base Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) Airmen training daily to keep their fellow Airmen and themselves out of harm's way, Department of Defense officials announcing a new Smartphone mobile application that tracks emotional health, a deployment group that helps children cope during parents' deployments, the Incirlik Air Base's cross country running coach inviting the Incirlik community to run with his team each Tuesday, two service members deployed in Afghanistan, Airman and mother, Maj. Cindy Lord, whose Marine Corps son; Lance Cpl. James Hill, was flown into Camp Bastion for her promotion ceremony. Hosted by Airman 1st Class Alina Richard.

This edition features stories on the Air Force releasing the Diversity Strategic roadmap, South Africa rejoining the United Nations command, Incirlik Air Base's inaugural Turkey Shoot, a deployed spouse Thanksgiving dinner at Kadena Air Base, Japan, U.S. Airmen and Japanese dog handler policemen conducting joint canine training at Misawa Air Base, and the historic finding remains of an ancient settlement at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom. Hosted by Airman 1st Class Alina Richard.

Tugana Akbas spoke with the Incirlik community about the powerful women of Turkey and their historical impact.

“Quando vemos a extensão dos danos, o número de prédios, o número de casas que foram destruídas, [percebemos que] vai ser necessário um esforço enorme para reconstruir, e estamos comprometidos em apoiar esse esforço. Juntamos 100 milhões de dólares [cerca de 93,5 milhões de euros] para ajudar aqueles que precisam desesperadamente”, afirmou Anthony Blinken, durante uma visita à base aérea de Incirlik, no sudeste da Turquia, citado pela Agência France Presse.

Staff Sgt. John Cone, 39th Contracting Squadron contract administrator, informed Airmen about the duties contracting performs at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, Nov. 22, 2022. The 39th Contracting Squadron writes terms and conditions, oversees bids and purchases everything from construction equipment to uniforms. (U.S. Air Force video by Airman 1st Class Kevin Dunkleberger)

Der Schweizer Historiker und Friedensforscher Dr. Daniele Ganser sprach am 3. Juni 2017 in Köln über die Türkei und den Krieg in Syrien. Ganser erklärt, dass die Türkei 1952 der NATO beigetreten ist. Der türkische Militärstützpunkt Incirlik wurde durch die USA für verschiedene Kriege im Nahen Osten benutzt. Im Vortrag betont der Historiker Ganser, dass die NATO von den USA angeführt wird, und dass es für das US-Imperium stets wichtig war, die muslimische Türkei in der NATO zu halten. Daher habe die CIA im Kalten Krieg sehr eng mit dem türkischen Militär und den türkischen Geheimdiensten kooperiert. Als General Kenan Evren durch den Putsch vom 12. September 1980 in der Türkei die Macht übernahm, zog der Direktor der CIA-Station in Istanbul Paul Henze die Fäden im Hintergrund. „Deine Leute haben gerade einen Putsch gemacht!“ sagte US-Präsident Jimmy Carter damals zu Paul Henze von der CIA. Ganser verweist auf das UNO-Gewaltverbot, das klar und deutlich solche CIA-Putsche verbietet und sagt: Alle UNO-Mitglieder unterlassen in ihren internationalen Beziehungen jede Androhung oder Anwendung von Gewalt. Mit der Finanzierung und Ausrüstung von Rebellen/Terroristen, die den syrischen Präsidenten Assad ab 2011 stürzen wollten, und dem Einmarsch von türkischen Panzern in Syrien am 24. August 2016 verstiess auch der türkische Präsident Erdogan gegen das UNO-Gewaltverbot. Nachdem am 15. Juli 2016 Verschwörer im türkischen Militär versucht hatten Präsident Erdogan zu stürzen, machte dieser die USA und den dort im Exil lebenden Prediger Fethullah Gülen für den versuchten Putsch verantwortlich. Erdogan entfernte sich von den USA und pflegte engere Beziehungen zu Russlands Präsident Vladimir Putin. NATO-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg erklärte: „Die Nato spielte keine Rolle bei der Planung oder Unterstützung des Putschversuchs in der Türkei“. Aber Präsident Erdogan glaubte ihm nicht. Die „Kreuzfahrer“ hätten versucht ihn zu entmachten. Das Misstrauen gegenüber den USA hat seit dem Putschversuch von 2016 in der Türkei stark zugenommen. In seinem Fazit betont der Historiker Ganser, dass es wichtig sei das UNO-Gewaltverbot zu achten. Vor allem sei es zentral, dass die Menschheitsfamilie nicht gespalten werde, weil dies in der Vergangenheit wiederholt zu Krieg und Leid geführt habe. Gerade die Türkei sei als muslimisches Land und NATO-Mitglied wiederholt von dieser Spaltung betroffen gewesen.Daniele Ganser hat neu eine Community! Er sagt: "Ich würde mich sehr freuen, Dich dort zu begrüssen! Mein Ziel ist, in diesen bewegten Zeiten den inneren und äusseren Frieden zu stärken!" Hier erfährst Du mehr zu diesem spannenden neuen Projekt: https://community.danieleganser.online/Daniele Ganser:https://www.danieleganser.chhttps://twitter.com/danieleganserhttps://www.facebook.com/DanieleGanserhttps://www.instagram.com/daniele.ganser/https://t.me/s/DanieleGanser See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is it time for the US to leave Incirlik airbase in Turkey? That's the focus of a recent op-ed by Michael Rubin, who argues that rather than remaining a strategic asset, Incirlik is now a strategic liability. Michael Rubin joins our host Thanos Davelis on The Greek Current to discuss his op-ed - “The one foreign base Biden should abandon” - and explains why it's time for the US to end its military presence in Turkey. We also look at what impact the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the broader region will have on the Middle East, as countries in the region begin to adjust to this new reality.Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official.Read Michael Rubin's piece on Incirlik in the Washington Examiner here: The one foreign base Biden should abandonYou can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here: Nineteen US Congress members call for UN action against Turkey's Varosha plansGroup: Turkish drones in Cyprus endanger commercial flights

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Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official, discusses why a recent visit to Turkey by the President of the European Court of Human Rights to receive an award degrades the court, and argues that it's time for the US to leave Incirlik airbase in Turkey.Read Michael Rubin's latest op-ed's here:European Court of Human Rights' president degrades court with Turkish awardIncirlik: Time for the U.S. Military to LeaveYou can read the articles we discuss on The Daily Roundup here:EU diplomacy on Turkey runs aground ahead of summit, envoys sayEU Belarus sanctions in doubt as Cyprus demands action against TurkeyGreek police move migrants to new camp after Moria fireGreek police move refugees to Lesbos tent camp after fireMore than 1,150 migrants moved into new tent camp, says spokesman

"It doesn’t matter if I’m a man or a woman. It just matters how I do my job. That responsibility I’m given is based on how I’ve done in the past, and how well they think I’m going to do in the future."   Welcome to the final episode in the On the Job series! Today, we are wrapping things up with United States Air Force Colonel Shelly Mendieta, who is the Vice Wing Commander of the 39th Airbase Wing in Incirlik, Turkey. As the #2 in command, Col. Mendieta is responsible for more than 3,500 military, civilian, and contractor personnel on base. She's also a Weapons System Operator in the F-15E fighter plane, having logged more than 2,400 flight hours! On this episode, Col. Mendieta talks about what it's really like flying those planes — which women weren't even allowed to fly when she first enlisted in the Air Force — and what it's like serving the country and being stationed overseas. She also talks about how being a runner makes her better in the air, and shares her take on being a woman in the military.   Thank you to Tracksmith for sponsoring the On the Job series on the Ali on the Run Show! Go to tracksmith.com/ontherun and use code ONTHERUN15 at checkout for 15% off your first Tracksmith purchase!   Follow Ali: Instagram @aliontherun1 Like the Facebook page Join the Facebook group Twitter @aliontherun1 Support on Patreon Blog Strava   Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify SoundCloud Overcast Stitcher Google Play   SUPPORT the Ali on the Run Show! If you’re enjoying the show, please subscribe and leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Spread the run love. And if you liked this episode, share it with your friends!

As the Michael Flynn legal drama comes to its denouement, the media narrative has focused on his guilty plea to lying about conversations with the Russian ambassador and the Justice Department’s late decision to seek to drop charges against Flynn. But Flynn’s other foreign entanglement, with Turkey, may be even more significant to U.S. security, foreign policy and democracy. In a wide ranging interview, John Metaxas speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University about Flynn’s admitted lobbying for Turkey, his advocacy for the extradition of a Turkish cleric living under political asylum in the United States, and Turkey’s role as a destabilizing force within NATO. Topics covered: 1:05 Why is the Flynn/Turkey connection so important? 2:20 What does this connection tell us about U.S. democracy? 4:36 Who is Fetullah Gulen? 6:56 Tell us about Gulenist schools opened around the world and in the United States. 9:30 What’s happening to many of those Gulenist schools around the world since the falling out between Erdogan and Gulen? 11:44 What are students learning at Gulenist schools in the United States? 13:34 Compare your nuanced description of Gulen with Flynn’s more one-sided portrayal in his op-ed in The Hill. 15:29 Would there be any justification in extraditing Gulen, as Flynn advocated? 17:00 Will we ever know whether Gulen was involved in the coup attempt against the Turkish government, as Erdogan alleges? And will we ever know where Gulen gets his funding? 19:00 Why is Turkey and what’s happening there important to the United States from a geopolitical point of view? 22:45 What is the status of Turkish forces that have encamped on Greek territory along the Evros River? 25:00 What are the implications of Turkish deployment of Russian S-400 missiles for U.S. nuclear weapons located at the Incirlik air base in Turkey? 26:52 President Trump has said he has a conflict of interest because he has a major building in Istanbul. He was willing to appoint Flynn as National Security Advisor despite his ties with the Turkish government. And he effectively gave Erdogan the “green light” to invade northern Syria in a phone conversation. What role does the Trump Administration play in all of this? 30:33 Discuss any apparent “carte blanche” given to Turkey in the light of the beating of U.S. citizens in Washington D.C. by Erdogan’s security detail. 32:24 What do Turkey’s soft power probings into the United States tell us about what’s happening to American democracy? 37:24 What is the status of the re-democratization movement within Turkey? 40:27 Why has Flynn’s Turkey connection not been central to the media narrative in the United States? Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou is a faculty member at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she directs the Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy. She is non-resident Senior Fellow and Co-Chair of the Working Group on Christians and Religious Pluralism in the Middle East, at the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, and was non-resident Senior Fellow in National Security and the Middle East, at the Center for American Progress. She is a Co-President of Religions for Peace International. Prodromou served as Vice Chair and Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2004-2012) and was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Religion & Foreign Policy Working Group (2011-2015). Her research interests focus on geopolitics and religion, with particular focus on the Middle East and Southeastern Europe. John Metaxas is an award-winning broadcast journalist for WCBS and Bloomberg Radio and previously anchored and reported for CNN, CNBC and WCBS-TV. John is an attorney and graduate of Columbia Law and Journalism. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and serves on the union’s national broadcast steering committee. He podcasts on Apple and at JohnMetaxas.com.

Leased air base in southern Turkey; Incirlik is what Putin wants.

Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Dr. Stephen Bryen. Dr. Bryen is a former Reagan era Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for technology security, a noted Military Technologist and Asia Times Columnist. We discuss breaking news of Turkey’s Erdogan ‘saber rattling’ using Turkish Navy vessels to disrupt Cypriot offshore drilling in its Exclusive Economic Zone and chasing off an Israeli research vessel supporting the Cypriot effort. Dr. Bryen considers Erdogan’s use of military force as a “reckless, and provocative”. In reaction, Cyprus has appealed to NATO for naval support opposing Erdogan’s arbitrary claim over offshore gas development rights in the Eastern Mediterranean threatening Greece, Cyprus, Israel, and Egypt. The EU, Italy, France are not buying Erdogan’s bullying tactics to muscle into the offshore energy potential of the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. The EU is backing the Triple Alliance of Israel, Cyprus and Greece by underwriting the $20 billion East Med submarine gas pipeline that avoids passing through Turkey. It would provide the EU with an alternative source of natural gas to Russia’s Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic Sea feeding Germany and the Russian-backed Turkish Stream pipeline. Even Erdogan’s claim to Libya’s offshore energy resources may be for naught as the UN – backed Islamic government may be in imminent collapse given advances by the forces of Field Marshall Haftar’s Libyan National Army backed by Russia. Then there are Erdogan’s threats to eject NATO from Incirlik with 60 over aging nuclear weapons. Dr. Bryen contends those weapons serve no useful purpose, as there are no aircraft that can use them. The real danger is the plutonium in the nuclear cores that Erdogan could use to develop his own nuclear weapons. The White House and the Pentagon are stymied on how to retain Turkey in NATO, given Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems and imminent industrial deal with Russia to co-produce either SU-35’s or SU 57’s. The US Congress in anger about Turkey’s dalliance with Russia, incursion in northeastern Syria, land grab in Iraq and support for Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza has passed a resolution condemning Turkey’s role in the Armenian Genocide during and after WWI, what Dr. Bryen called “an historic fact”. With impeachment of President Trump looming, the Administration’s attempt to keep Turkey in NATO, according to Dr. Bryen is not going well. On the matter of whether the US and Israel are confronting Iran internally and in riot plagued Lebanon and Iraq, as well as Syria, Dr. Bryen said the US is not doing enough. He noted the recent insertion of armored vehicles in Iraq endeavoring to suppress violent protests against the Iraqi government and Iranian Sh’ia proxies. Iran’s objectives Bryen contends are “to control Iraq, Syria and Lebanon and make war on Israel”. The only bright exception was US Secretary of State Pompeo announcement giving encrypted communications support for domestic opposition in Iran. Despite the political stalemate in Israel, the IDF carried out raids in Syria effectively taking out the IRGC headquarters there. On President Trump’s announcement of withdrawing 4,000 troops from Afghanistan Bryen suggests it amounts to declaring victory in the 19-year war with the possibility of collapse of the government there and likely return of the Islamist Taliban. Beyond the Matrix 18DEC2019 - PODCAST

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On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan discuss the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment report. The impeachment articles outline the abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.Guests:Harley Schlanger - Political Activist for the LaRouche Foundation Worldwide currently stationed in Germany | Impeachment & HorowitzJames Carey - Editor/Co-Owner at GeoPoliticsAlert | Turkey May Close Air Base in Response to the USMark Frost - Economist and Professor | The Trade Deal with China: Is Bilateral Trade Realistic?Lucy Komisar - Investigative journalist focusing on corporate and financial corruption | The Ziff Brothers & Derek Shearer: A Browder-Clinton Connection?The House is expected to vote to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The judiciary committee released a 658-page report this morning on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress relating to the infamous Ukraine call. A political activist for the LaRouche Foundation Harley Schlanger discusses impeachment and the Horowitz report.The US has been handing out sanctions to everyone. When they threatened Turkey, President Erdogan warned he will close down its Incirlik airbase that hosts US nuclear warheads if necessary. Editor of GeoPolitics Alert James Carey joins the show to explain exactly what is going on.Last week, the US and China announced the "phase-one" trade agreement. The details are unclear but for the first time, both sides have acknowledged and announced an agreement. Economist Mark Frost explains his position that this is not a trade war at all.Fault Lines has been covering Bill Browder and the Clintons' scandals for years. Lee Stranahan introduces a few new characters including the Ziff brothers and Derek Shearer. Investigative journalist Lucy Komisar brings her stellar research to the show.

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Today on TruNews we discuss the fake news freak show being paraded on U.S. national television after President Trump’s decision to remove 28 soldiers from Northern Syria. We detail how the EZ, evangelical Zionist mafia, is out in force spiritually cracking the skulls of anyone who threatens to criticize a move away from war and defending Greater Israel. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart, Edward Szall.

Today on TruNews we discuss the fake news freak show being paraded on U.S. national television after President Trump’s decision to remove 28 soldiers from Northern Syria. We detail how the EZ, evangelical Zionist mafia, is out in force spiritually cracking the skulls of anyone who threatens to criticize a move away from war and defending Greater Israel. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart, Edward Szall.

Trumps versie gaat ongeveer zo: Turkije, na Amerika het grootste NAVO-lid, kan het niet maken om Russische S-400-raketten te kopen. Erdogan is niet alleen niet solidair tegenover de NAVO, het is ook gevaarlijk. Als je de S-400-raketten integreert in de NAVO-defensie, kunnen hun met geavanceerde radar uitgevoerde besturingssystemen gluren in NAVO-geheimen, zoals de JSF, die juist is gebouwd om onzichtbaar te zijn voor vijandelijke radar. Dus, Erdogan, koop nou geen S-400s, maar Amerikaanse Patriots. Zo niet, dan kun je fluiten naar je 100 JSFs. De Sanctie-Dude laat de training van Turkse F-35-piloten in de VS al vaststilleggen. Rocket Man zegt: dat roepen jullie nú, maar jullie wilden ons destijds helemaal geen Patriots verkopen. Bovendien zijn die duurder en minder goed dan de S-400. Trouwens, die raketten worden helemaal niet in de NAVO-defensie geïntegreerd. En ik heb de deal met de Russen nu gesloten, en ik houd mij altijd aan mijn afspraken. De groeten met je sancties. Sanctie-Dude en Rocket Man spelen met vuur. Het gaat natuurlijk om een principe: je koopt als NAVO-lid geen cruciaal wapensysteem van Rusland. Maar het gaat ook om praktische problemen. Turkije is, net als Nederland, een van de landen die mee bouwt aan de F-35. Dus was doet fabrikant Lockheed-Martin als de leverantie van de Turkse onderdelen stopt? Dan is er de Turkse basis Incirlik, die voor de Amerikaanse luchtmacht onmisbaar is. En tenslotte: wij de NAVO en de Europese Unie hebben Turkije een sleutelrol gegeven in de afwikkeling van de Syrische oorlog en het vluchtelingenprobleem. Het is dus in ons belang dat Sanctie-Dude en Rocket Man hun testosteronwedstrijdje beëindigen. Ze zien elkaar op de komende G-20. Alcohol drinken ze geen van beiden, maar een kopje thee is dringend gewenst. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yemen: Most of us don't know where that is but we Americans have been participating in a war there since 2015. In a surprise move, the 116th Congress recently put a resolution on President Trump's desk that would LIMIT our participation in that war. In this episode, learn about our recent history in Yemen: Why are we involved? When did our involvement start? What do we want from Yemen? And why is Congress suddenly pursuing a change in policy? In the second half of the episode, Jen admits defeat in a project she's been working on and Husband Joe joins Jen for the thank yous. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Click here to contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536 Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD167: Combating Russia (NDAA 2018) LIVE CD131: Bombing Libya CD102: The World Trade Organization: COOL? Additional Reading Article: Hurricane Michael upgraded to a Category 5 at time of U.S. landfall, NOAA, April 19, 2019. Article: US carries out first airstrikes in Yemen in nearly 3 months by Ryan Browne, CNN, April 1, 2019. Article: The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi by Joyce Lee and Dalton Bennett, The Washington Post, April 1, 2019. Article: Trump revokes Obama rule on reporting drone strike deaths, BBC News, March 7, 2019. Article: US carried out 36 airstrikes in Yemen last year by Andrew Kennedy, The Defense Post, January 7, 2019. Article: See no evil: Pentagon issues blanket denial that it knows anything about detainee abuse in Yemen by Alex Emmons, The Intercept, January 7, 2019. Report: Senate bucks Trump's Saudi approach by Jeff Abramson, Arms Control Association, January/February 2019. Article: Saudi strikes, American bombs, Yemeni suffering by Derek Watkins and Declan Walsh, The New York Times, December 27, 2018. Article: The wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis got a friend in the White House by David D. Kirkpatrick, Ben Hubbard, Mark Landler, and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times, December 8, 2018. Report: Saudi lobbyists bout 500 nights at Trump's DC hotel after 2016 election by John Bowden, The Hill, December 5, 2018. Article: Hidden toll of US drone strikes in Yemen: Nearly a third of deaths are civilians, not al-Quaida by Maggie Michael and Maad al-Zikry, Military Times, November 14, 2018. Article: Jamal Khashoggi's friends in Washington are in shock by Scott Nover, The Atlantic, October 12, 2018. Report: Catastrophic Hurricane Michael strikes Florida Panhandle, National Weather Service, October 10, 2018. Article: Yemen's President Hadi heads to US for medical treatment, Aljazeera, September 3, 2018. Article: Bab el-Mandeb, an emerging chokepoint for Middle East oil flows by Julian Lee, Bloomberg, July 26, 2018. Report: YEM305: Unknown reported killed, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, March 29, 2018. Article: Yemen: Ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed, Aljazeera, December 10, 2017. Article: In Yemen's secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates by Maggie Michael, AP News, June 22, 2017. Report: Yemen: UAE backs abusive local forces, Human Rights Watch, June 22, 2017. Article: What we know about Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 by Simon Henderson, Foreign Policy, July 18, 2016. Report: Yemen: Background and U.S. relations by Jeremy M. Sharp, Congressional Research Service, February 11, 2015. Article: How al Qaeda's biggest enemy took over Yemen (and why the US government is unlikely to support them) by Casey L. Coombs and Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, January 22, 2015. Report: Yemen protests erupt after fuel price doubled, Aljazeera, July 30, 2014. Article: U.S. charges saudi for 2002 oil tanker bombing by MAREX, Feburary 6, 2014. Report: "Between a Drone and Al-Qaeda": The civilian cost of US targeted killings in Yemen, Human Rights Watch, October 22, 2013. Article: Yemen: Opposition leader to be sworn in Saturday by Reuters, The New York Times, December 7, 2011. Article: Yemen's Saleh signs deal to give up power by Marwa Rashad, Reuters, November 23, 2011. Article: Yemen's leader agrees to end 3-decade rule by Kareem Fahim and Laura Kasinof, The New York Times, November 23, 2011. Article: Yemeni president's shock return throws country into confusion by Tom Finn, The Guardian, September 23, 2011. Article: Yemen: President Saleh 'was injured by palace bomb', BBC News, June 23, 2011. Article: Government in Yemen agrees to talk transition by Laura Kasinof, The New York Times, April 26, 2011. Article: Hundreds take to streets in Yemen to protest by Faud Rajeh, The New York Times, February 16, 2011. Article: U.S. plays down tensions with Yemen by Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, December 17, 2010. Article: Cables depict range of Obama diplomacy by David E. Sanger, The New York Times, December 4, 2010. Article: Yemen's drive on Al Qaeda faces international skepticism by Mona El-Naggar and Robert F. Worth, The New York Times, November 3, 2010. Article: Op-Ed: The Yemeni state against its own people by Subir Ghosh, Digital Journal, October 11, 2010. Roundtable Summary: Reform priorities for Yemen and the 10-Point agenda, MENAP, Chatham House, February 18, 2010. Article: As nations meet, Clinton urges Yemen to prove itself worthy of aid by Mark Landler, The New York Times, January 27, 2010. Article: After failed attack, Britain turns focus to Yemen by John F. Burns, The New York Times, January 1, 2010. Resources Congress.gov: S.J.Res.54 - A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress Govtrack: S.J.Res. 7: A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by ... Congress IMF.org: Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Middle East Institute: Addressing the Crisis in Yemen: Strategies and Solutions Open Knowledge Repository: Leveraging Fuel Subsidy Reform for Transition in Yemen US Dept. of Treasury: International Monetary Fund Sound Clip Sources House Proceedings: Yemen Resolution Debate, 116th Congress, April 4, 2019. Congressional Record Sound Clips: 1:06:30 Rep. Michael McCaul (TX):This resolution stretches the definition of war powers hostilities to cover non-U.S. military operations by other countries. Specifically, it reinterprets U.S. support to these countries as ‘‘engagement in hostilities.’’ This radical reinterpretation has implications far beyond Saudi Arabia. This precedent will empower any single Member to use privileged war powers procedures to force congressional referendums that could disrupt U.S. security cooperation agreements with more than 100 countries around the world. 1:14:30 Rep. Barbara Lee (CA): Yes, Madam Speaker, I voted against that 2001 resolution, because I knew it was open-ended and would set the stage for endless wars. It was a blank check. We see this once again today in Yemen. We must repeal this 2001 blank check for endless wars. Over the past 18 years, we have seen the executive branch use this AUMF time and time again. It is a blank check to wage war without congressional oversight. 1:21:30 Rep. Ro Khanna (CA): My motivation for this bill is very simple. I don’t want to see 14 million Yemenis starve to death. That is what Martin Griffith had said at the U.N., that if the Saudis don’t stop their blockade and let food and medicine in, within 6 months we will see one of the greatest humanitarian crises in the world. Senate Floor Proceedings: Yemen Resolution Debate, 115th Congress, 2nd Session, December 12, 2018. Congressional Record Pt. 1 Congressional Record Pt. 2 Sound Clips: 7:09:00 Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT): Finally, an issue that has long been a concern to many of us—conservatives and progressives—is that this war has not been authorized by Congress and is therefore unconstitutional. Article I of the Constitution clearly states it is Congress, not the President, that has the power to send our men and women into war—Congress, not the President. The Framers of our Constitution, the Founders of this country, gave the power to declare war to Congress—the branch most accountable to the people—not to the President, who is often isolated from the reality of what is taking place in our communities. The truth is—and Democratic and Republican Presidents are responsible, and Democratic and Republican Congresses are responsible—that for many years, Congress has not exercised its constitutional responsibility over whether our young men and women go off to war. I think there is growing sentiment all over this country from Republicans, from Democrats, from Independents, from progressives, and from conservatives that right now, Congress cannot continue to abdicate its constitutional responsibility. 7:14:45 Sen. Bob Corker (TN): I have concerns about what this may mean as we set a precedent about refueling and intelligence activities being considered hostilities. I am concerned about that. I think the Senator knows we have operations throughout Northern Africa, where we are working with other governments on intelligence to counter terrorism. We are doing refueling activists in Northern Africa now, and it concerns me—he knows I have concerns—that if we use this vehicle, then we may have 30 or 40 instances where this vehicle might be used to do something that really should not be dealt with by the War Powers Act. 7:49:06 Sen. Todd Young (IN): We don’t have much leverage over the Houthis. We have significant leverage over the Saudis, and we must utilize it. 7:58:30 Sen. Jim Inhofe (OK): The Sanders-Lee resolution is, I think, fundamentally flawed because it presumes we are engaged in military action in Yemen. We are not. We are not engaged in military action in Yemen. There has been a lot of discussion about refueling. I don’t see any stretch of the definition that would say that falls into that category. 8:01:00 Sen. Jim Inhofe (OK): Saudi Arabia is an important Middle Eastern partner. Its stability is vital to the security of our regional allies and our partners, including Israel, and Saudi Arabia is essential to countering Iran. We all know that. We know how tenuous things are in that part of the world. We don’t have that many friends. We can’t afford to lose any of them. 8:04:30 Sen. Chris Murphy (CT): It is important to note some-thing that we take for granted in the region—this now long-term detente that has existed between the Gulf States and Israel, which did not used to be something you could rely on. In fact, one of the most serious foreign policy debates this Senate ever had was on the sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia back in the 1980s. The objection then was that by empowering Saudi Arabia, you were hurting Israel and Israeli security. No one would make that argument today because Saudi Arabia has been a good partner in trying to figure out a way to calm the tensions in the region and, of course, provide some balance in the region, with the Iranian regime on the other side continuing to this day to use inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric about the future of Israel. So this is an important partnership, and I have no interest in blowing it up. I have no interest in walking away from it. But you are not obligated to follow your friend into every misadventure they propose. When your buddy jumps into a pool of man-eating sharks, you don’t have to jump with him. There is a point at which you say enough is enough. 8:06:00 Sen. Chris Murphy (CT): Muhammad bin Salman, who is the Crown Prince, who is the effective leader of the country, has steered the foreign policy of Saudi Arabia off the rails. Folks seem to have noticed when he started rounding up his political opponents and killing one of them in a consulate in Turkey, but this has been ongoing. Look back to the kidnapping of the Lebanese Prime Minister, the blockade of Qatar without any heads-up to the United States, the wholesale imprisonment of hundreds of his family members until there was a payoff, the size of which was big enough to let some of them out. This is a foreign policy that is no longer in the best interests of the United States and cannot be papered over by a handful of domestic policy reforms that are, in fact, intended to try to distract us from the aggressive nature of the Saudis’ foreign policy in the region. 8:08:15 Sen. Chris Murphy (CT): I am appreciative that many of my colleagues are willing to stand up for this resolution today to end the war in Yemen. I wish that it weren’t because of the death of one journalist, because there have been tens of thousands who have died inside Yemen, and their lives are just as important and just as worthwhile as Jamal Khashoggi’s life was, as tragic as that was. But there is a connection between the two, which is why I have actually argued that this resolution is in some way, shape, or form a response to the death of Jamal Khashoggi, for those who are primarily concerned with that atrocity. Here is how I link the two: What the Saudis did for 2 weeks was lie to us, right? In the most bald-faced way possible. They told us that Jamal Khashoggi had left the consulate, that he had gotten out of there alive, that they didn’t know what happened, when of course they knew the entire time that they had killed him, that they had murdered him, that they had dismembered his body. We now know that the Crown Prince had multiple contacts all throughout the day with the team of operatives who did it. Yet they thought we were so dumb or so weak— or some combination of the two—that they could just lie to us about it. That was an eye-opener for a lot of people here who were long-term supporters of the Saudi relationship because they knew that we had trouble. They knew that sometimes our interests didn’t align, but they thought that the most important thing allies did with each other was tell the truth, especially when the truth was so easy to discover outside of your bilateral relationship. Then, all of a sudden, the Saudis lied to us for 2 weeks—for 2 weeks—and then finally came around to telling the truth because everybody knew that they weren’t. That made a lot of people here think, well, wait a second—maybe the Saudis haven’t been telling us the truth about what they have been doing inside Yemen. A lot of my friends have been supporting the bombing campaign in Yemen. Why? Because the Saudis said: We are hitting these civilians by accident. Those water treatment plants that have been blowing up—we didn’t mean to hit them. That cholera treatment facility inside the humanitarian compound—that was just a bomb that went into the wrong place, or, we thought there were some bad guys in it. It didn’t turn out that there were. It turns out the Saudis weren’t telling us the truth about what they were doing in Yemen. They were hitting civilian targets on purpose. They did have an intentional campaign of trying to create misery. I am not saying that every single one of those school buses or those hospitals or those churches or weddings was an attempt to kill civilians and civilians only, but we have been in that targeting center long enough to know—to know—that they have known for a long time what they have been doing: hitting a lot of people who have nothing to do with the attacks against Saudi Arabia. Maybe if the Saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to Jamal Khashoggi, they haven’t been straight with us as to what is happening inside Yemen, because if the United States is being used to intentionally hit civilians, then we are complicit in war crimes. And I hate to tell my colleagues that is essentially what the United Nations found in their most recent report on the Saudi bombing campaign. They were careful about their words, but they came to the conclusion that it was likely that the Saudi conduct inside Yemen would amount to war crimes under international law. If it is likely that our ally is perpetuating war crimes in Yemen, then we cannot be a part of that. The United States cannot be part of a bombing campaign that may be—probably is— intentionally making life miserable for the people inside of that country. 8:14:00 Sen. Chris Murphy (CT): There is no relationship in which we are the junior partner—certainly not with Saudi Arabia. If Saudi Arabia can push us around like they have over the course of the last several years and in particular the last several months, that sends a signal to lots of other countries that they can do the same thing—that they can murder U.S. residents and suffer almost no consequences; that they can bomb civilians with our munitions and suffer no consequences. This is not just a message about the Saudi relationship; this is a message about how the United States is going to interact with lots of other junior partners around the world as well. Saudi Arabia needs us a lot more than we need them, and we need to remind folks of that over and over again. Spare me this nonsense that they are going to go start buying Russian jets or Chinese military hardware. If you think those countries can protect you better than the United States, take a chance. You think the Saudis are really going to stop selling oil to the United States? You think they are going to walk away from their primary bread winner just because we say that we don’t want to be engaged in this particular military campaign? I am willing to take that chance. We are the major partner in this relationship, and it is time that we start acting like it. If this administration isn’t going to act like it, then this Congress has to act like it. 8:44:15 Sen. Mike Lee (UT): Many of my colleagues will argue—in fact some of them have argued just within the last few minutes—that we are somehow not involved in a war in Yemen. My distinguished friend and colleague, the Senator from Oklahoma, came to the floor a little while ago, and he said that we are not engaged in direct military action in Yemen. Let’s peel that back for a minute. Let’s figure out what that means. I am not sure what the distinction between direct and indirect is here. Maybe in a very technical sense—or under a definition of warfare or military action that has long since been rendered out- dated—we are not involved in that, but we are involved in a war. We are co-belligerents. The minute we start identifying targets or, as Secretary James Mattis put it about a year ago, in December 2017, the minute we are involved in the decisions involving making sure that they know the right stuff to hit, that is involvement in a war, and that is pretty direct. The minute we send up U.S. military aircraft to provide midair refueling assistance for Saudi jets en route to bombing missions, to combat missions on the ground in Yemen, that is our direct involvement in war. 8:48:00 Sen. Mike Lee (UT): Increasingly these days, our wars are high-tech. Very often, our wars involve cyber activities. They involve reconnaissance, surveillance, target selection, midair refueling. It is hard—in many cases, impossible—to fight a war without those things. That is what war is. Many of my colleagues, in arguing that we are not involved in hostilities, rely on a memorandum that is internal within the executive branch of the U.S. Government that was issued in 1976 that provides a very narrow, unreasonably slim definition of the word ‘‘hostilities.’’ It defines ‘‘hostilities’’ in a way that might have been relevant, that might have been accurate, perhaps, in the mid-19th century, but we no longer live in a world in which you have a war as understood by two competing countries that are lined up on opposite sides of a battlefield and engaged in direct exchanges of fire, one against another, at relatively short range. War encompasses a lot more than that. War certainly encompasses midair refueling, target selection, surveillance, and reconnaissance of the sort we are undertaking in Yemen. Moreover, separate and apart from this very narrow, unreasonably slim definition of ‘‘hostilities’’ as deter- mined by this internal executive branch document from 1976 that contains the outdated definition, we our- selves, under the War Powers Act, don’t have to technically be involved in hostilities. It is triggered so long as we ourselves are sufficiently involved with the armed forces of another nation when those armed forces of another nation are themselves involved in hostilities. I am speaking, of course, in reference to the War Powers Act’s pro- visions codified at 50 USC 1547(c). For our purposes here, it is important to keep in mind what that provisions reads: ‘‘For purposes of this chapter [under the War Powers Act], the term ‘introduction of United States Armed Forces’ includes the assignment of members of such Armed Forces to command, coordinate, participate in the movement of, or accompany the regular or irregular military forces of any foreign country or government when such military forces are engaged, or there exists an imminent threat that such forces will become engaged, in hostilities.’’ In what sense, on what level, on what planet are we not involved in the commanding, in the coordination, in the participation, in the movement of or in the accompaniment of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the civil war in Yemen? 9:57:15 Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT): In March of this year, I led a letter to the Department of Defense with my colleague Senator JACK REED of Rhode Island, along with many of our colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee, stating our concern regarding U.S. support for Saudi military operations against the Houthis in Yemen and asking about the DOD’s involvement, apparently without appropriate notification of Congress, and its agreements to provide refueling sup- port to the Saudis and the Saudi coalition partners. We were concerned that the DOD had not appropriately documented reimbursements for aerial re- fueling support provided by the United States. Eight months later—just days ago— the Department of Defense responded to our letter and admitted that it has failed to appropriately notify Congress of its support agreements; it has failed to adequately charge Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for fuel and refueling assistance. That admission 8 months after our inquiry is a damning indictment. These errors in accounting mean that the United States was directly funding the Saudi war in Yemen. It has been doing it since March of 2015. Video: Trump: Khashoggi case will not stop $110bn US-Saudi arms trade, The Guardian, October 12, 2018. Donald Trump: I would not be in favor of stopping from spending $110 billion, which is an all-time record, and letting Russia have that money, and letting China have that money. Because all their going to do is say, that's okay, we don't have to buy it from Boeing, we don't have to buy it from Lockheed, we don't have to buy it from Ratheon and all these great companies. We'll buy it from Russia and we'll buy it from China. So what good does that do us? Hearing: U.S. Policy Toward Middle East, House Foreign Affairs Committee, C-SPAN, April 18, 2018. Witnesses: David Satterfield: Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Wess Mitchell: Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Sound Clips: 18:00 David Satterfield: We all agree, as does the Congress, that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is unacceptable. Last month, the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates provided $1 billion to Yemen's humanitarian response appeal, and this complements the US government pledge of $87 million and more than $854 million contributed since beginning of fiscal year 2017. 19:45 Wess Mitchell: Turkey is a 66 year member of the NATO alliance and member of the defeat ISIS coalition. It has suffered more casualties from terrorism than any other ally and hosts 3.5 million Syrian refugees. It supports the coalition through the use of Incirlik air base through its commitment of Turkish military forces against Isis on the ground in (Dibick? al-Bab?) And through close intelligence cooperation with the United States and other allies. Turkey has publicly committed to a political resolution in Syria that accords with UN Security Council. Resolution 2254. Turkey has a vested strategic interest in checking the spread of Iranian influence and in having a safe and stable border with Syria. Despite these shared interests, Turkey lately has increased its engagement with Russia and Iran. Ankara has sought to assure us that it sees this cooperation as a necessary stepping stone towards progress in the Geneva process, but the ease with which Turkey brokered arrangements with the Russian military to facilitate the launch of its Operation Olive Branch in Afrin district, arrangements to which America was not privy, is gravely concerning. Ankara claims to have agreed to purchase, to, to purchase the Russian S 400 missile system, which could potentially lead to sanctions under section 231 of CAATSA and adversely impact Turkey's participation in the F-35 program. It is in the American national interest to see Turkey remains strategically and politically aligned with the west. Hearing: U.S. Policy Toward Yemen, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, C-SPAN, April 17, 2018. Witnesses: Robert Jenkins: Deputy Assistant Administrator at USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, & Humanitarian Assistance David Satterfield: Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Robert Karem: Assistant Defense Secretary for International Security Affairs Nominee and former Middle East Adviser to Vice President Cheney Sound Clips: 9:30 Chairman Bob Corker (TN): Well, Yemen has always faced significant socioeconomic challenges. A civil war, which began with the Houthis armed takeover of much of the country in 2014 and their overthrow of Yemen's legitimate government in January 2015, has plunged the country into humanitarian crisis. 17:25 Chairman Bob Corker (TN): Our first witness is acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, Ambassador David Satterfield. Ambassador Satterfield is one of the most distinguished, one of our most distinguished diplomats. He most recently served as director general, the multinational force and observers in the Sinai peninsula and previously served as US Abassador to Lebanon. 17:45 Chairman Bob Corker (TN): Our second witness is Robert Jenkins, who serves as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for USA ID Bureau for Democracy, conflict and humanitarian assistance. Mr. Jenkins, recently mark 20 years at USAID and previously served as the Director of Office of Transition Initiatives. 18:15 Chairman Bob Corker (TN): Our third witness is Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Robert Kerem. Prior to his Senate confirmation last year, Mr. Karem served as National Security of Staff of Vice President Cheney and then as National Security Advisor to the House, majority leader's Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy. 20:15 David Satterfield: US military support serves a clear and strategic purpose to reinforce Saudi and Mrid self defense in the face of intensifying Houthi and Iranian enabled threats and to expand the capability of our Gulf partners to push back against Iran's regionally destabilizing actions. This support in turn provides the United States access and influence to help press for a political solution to the conflict. Should we curtail US military support? The Saudis could well pursue defense relationships with countries that have no interest in either ending the humanitarian crisis, minimizing civilian casualties or assisting and facilitating progress towards a political solution. Critical US access to support for our own campaign against violent extremists could be placed in jeopardy. 30:00 Robert Karem: Conflict in Yemen affects regional security across the Middle East, uh, and threatens US national security interests, including the free flow of commerce and the Red Sea. Just this month, the Houthi, his attack to Saudi oil tanker and the Red Sea threatening commercial shipping and freedom of navigation and the world's fourth busiest maritime choke point, the Bab el Mandeb. 32:00 Robert Karem: The Defense Department is currently engaged in two lines of effort in Yemen. Our first line of effort and our priority is the fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS in Yemen, two terrorist organizations that directly threaten the United States, our allies and our partners. To combat AQIP, AQAP, and ISIS, US forces in coordination with the UN recognized government of Yemen are supporting our regional key counter terrorism partners in ongoing operations to disrupt and degrade their ability to coordinate, plot and recruit for external terrorist operations. Additionally, US military forces are conducting airstrikes against AQAP and ISIS in Yemen pursuant to the 2001 a authorization for the use of military force to disrupt and destroy terrorist network networks. Our second line of effort is the provision of limited noncombat support to the Saudi led coalition in support of the UN recognized government of Yemen. The support began in 2015 under President Obama and in 2017 president Trump reaffirmed America's commitment to our partners in these efforts. Fewer than 50 US military personnel work in Saudi Arabia with the Saudi led coalition advising and assisting with the defense of Saudi territory, sharing intelligence and providing logistical support, including aerial refueling. 35:45 Sen. Ben Cardin (MD): Mr. Karem. I'm gonna Start with you. Um, in regards to the US military assistance that we give to the kingdom, you said that is to embolden their capacity and to reduce noncombatant casualties. Last March, the CENTCOM commander General Votel stated that the United States government does not track the end results of the coalition missions. It refills and supports with targeting assistance. So my question to you is, how do you determine that we are effectively reducing the non combatant casualties if we don't in fact track the results of the kingdoms military actions? Robert Karem: Senator, thank you. Um, it's correct that we do not monitor and track all of the Saudi aircraft, um, uh, a loft over Yemen. Uh, we have limited personnel and assets in order to do that. Uh, and CENTCOM's focus is obviously been on our own operations in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in Syria. Sen. Ben Cardin (MD): I understand that, but my question is, our stated mission is to reduce noncombat and casualties. If we don't track, how do we determine that? Robert Karem: So I think one of our stated missions is precisely that. Um, there are multiple ways that I think we do have insight into, uh, Saudi, uh, targeting behavior. Um, we have helped them with their processes. Um, we have seen them implement a no strike list. Um, and we have seen their, their, their uh, capabilities, uh, improved. So the information is based upon what the Saudis tell you, how they're conducting the mission rather than the after impact of the mission. I think our military officers who are resident in Saudi Arabia are seeing how the Saudis approach, uh, this, this effort that took getting effort. Sen. Ben Cardin (MD): But you know, obviously the proof is in the results and we don't know whether the results are, there are not fair statement. Robert Karem: I think we do see a difference in how the Saudis have operated in Yemen, how they operate. Sen. Ben Cardin (MD): I understand how they operate but we don't know whether in fact that's been effective. The United Nations Security Council panel of experts on Yemen concluded in recent reports that the cumulative effect of these airstrikes on civilian infrastructure demonstrates that even with precaution, cautionary measures were taken, they were largely inadequate and ineffective. Do you have any information that disagrees with that assessment? Robert Karem: Senator, I think the assessment of, uh, our central command is that the Saudi, uh, and Emirati targeting efforts, uh, have improved, um, uh, with the steps that they've taken. We do not have perfect understanding because we're not using all of our assets to monitor their aircraft, but we do get reporting from the ground on what taking place inside Yemen. 40:15 Sen. Rand Paul (KY): Ambassador Satterfield. I guess some people when they think about our strategy might question the idea of our strategy. You know, if your son was shooting off his pistol in the back yard and doing it indiscriminately and endangering the neighbors, would you give hmi more bullets or less? And we see the Saudis acting in an indiscriminate manner. They've bombed a funeral processions, they've killed a lot of civilians. And so our strategy is to give them more bombs, not less. And we say, well, if we don't give him the bomb, somebody else will. And that's sort of this global strategy, uh, that many in the bipartisan foreign policy consensus have. We have to, we have to always be involved. We always have to provide weapons or someone else will and they'll act even worse. But there's a, I guess a lot of examples that doesn't seem to be improving their behavior. Um, you could argue it's marginally better since we've been giving them more weapons, but it seems the opposite of logic. You would think you would give people less where you might withhold aid or withhold a assistance to the Saudis to get them to behave. But we do sort of the opposite. We give them more aid. What would your response be to that? David Satterfield: Senator, when I noted in my remarks that progress had been made on this issue of targeting, minimizing or mitigating civilian casualties, that phrase was carefully chosen into elaborate further on, uh, my colleagues remarks, uh, Robert Karem. We do work with the Saudis and have, particularly over the last six to nine months worked intensively on the types of munitions the Saudis are using, how they're using, how to discriminate target sets, how to assure through increased loiter time by aircraft that the targets sought are indeed clear of collateral or civilian damage. This is new. This is not the type of interaction… Sen. Rand Paul (KY): And yet the overall situation in Yemen is a, is a disaster. David Satterfield: The overall situation is extremely bad. Senator. Sen. Rand Paul (KY): I guess that's really my question. We had to rethink...And I think from a common sense point of view, a lot of people would question giving people who misbehave more weapons instead of giving them less on another question, which I think is a broad question about, you know, what we're doing in the Middle East in general. Um, you admitted that there's not really a military solution in Yemen. Most people say it's going to be a political solution. The Houthis will still remain. We're not going to have Hiroshima. We're not going to have unconditional surrender and the good guys win and the bad guys are vanquished. Same with Syria. Most people have said for years, both the Obama administration and this administration, probably even the Bush administration, the situation will probably be a political solution. They will no longer, it's not going to be complete vanquished meant of the enemy. We're also saying that in Afghanistan, and I guess my point as I think about that is I think about the recruiter at the station in Omaha, Nebraska, trying to get somebody to sign up for the military and saying, please join. We're going to send you to three different wars where there is no military solution. We're hoping to make it maybe a little bit better. I think back to Vietnam. Oh, we're going to take one more village. If we take one more village, they're going to negotiate and we get a little better negotiation. I just can't see sending our young men and women to die for that for one more village. You know the Taliban 40% in Afghanistan. Where are we going to get when they get to 30% don't negotiate and when we it, it'll be, it'll have been worth it for the people who have to go in and die and take those villages. I don't think it's one more life. I don't think it's worth one more life. The war in Yemen is not hard. We talk all about the Iranians have launched hundreds of missiles. Well, yeah, and the Saudis have launched 16,000 attacks. Who started it? It's a little bit murky back and forth. The, the Houthis may have started taking over their government, but that was a civil war. Now we're involved in who are the good guys of the Saudis, the good guys or the others, the bad guys. Thousands of civilians are dying. 17 million people live on the edge of starvation. I think we need to rethink whether or not military intervention supplying the Saudis with weapons, whether all of this makes any sense at all or whether we've made the situation worse. I mean, humanitarian crisis, we're talking about, oh, we're going to give my, the Saudis are giving them money and I'm like, okay, so we dropped, we bomb the crap out of them in this audience. Give them $1 billion. Maybe we could bomb last maybe part of the humanitarian answers, supplying less weapons to a war. There's a huge arms race going on. Why do the Iranians do what they do? They're evil. Or maybe they're responding to the Saudis who responded first, who started it? Where did the arms race start? But we sell $300 billion a weapons to Saudi Arabia. What are the Iranians going to do? They react. It's action and reaction throughout the Middle East. And so we paint the Iranians as the, you know, these evil monsters. And we just have to correct evil monster. But the world's a much more complicated place back and forth. And I, all I would ask is that we try to get outside our mindset that we, uh, what we're doing is working because I think what we're doing hasn't worked, and we've made a lot of things worse. And we're partly responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.  48:30 David Satterfield: The political picture on the ground in Yemen has changed radically with the death, the killing of a Ali Abdullah Saleh, uh, with the fragmentation of the General People's Congress. All of that, while tragic in many of its dimensions, has provided a certain reshuffling of the deck that may, we hope, allow the United Nations to be more effective in its efforts. 1:05:45 Sen. Todd Young (IN): Approximately how many people, Mr. Jenkins require humanitarian assistance in Yemen? David Jenkins: 22 million people. Sen. Todd Young (IN): What percent of the population is that? David Jenkins: Approximately 75% was the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance increase from last year. It increased by our, we're estimating 3.5 million people. Sen. Todd Young (IN): And how much has it increased? David Jenkins: About 3.5 million people. Sen. Todd Young (IN): Okay. How many are severely food insecure? David Jenkins: 17.8 million. Sen. Todd Young (IN): How many children are severely malnourished? David Jenkins: 460,000 Sen. Todd Young (IN): How many people lack access to clean water and working toilets? David Jenkins: We estimate it to be around 16 million people. Sen. Todd Young (IN): Does Yemen face the largest cholera outbreak in the world? David Jenkins: It does. Sen. Todd Young (IN): How many cholera cases have we seen in Yemen? David Jenkins: A suspected over a 1 million cases. Sen. Todd Young (IN): And how many lives has that cholera outbreak claim? David Jenkins: Almost 2100. 1:46:00 Robert Jenkins: I do know that the vast majority of people within that, the majority of people in need, and that 22 million number live in the northern part of the country that are accessible best and easiest by Hodeidah port, there is no way to take Hodeidah out of the equation and get anywhere near the amount of humanitarian and more importantly, even commercial goods into the country. Hearing: Violence in Yemen, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North America, C-SPAN, April 14, 2015. Witnesses: Gerald Feierstein: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Former Ambassador to Yemen (2010-2013) Sound Clips: 1:45 Rep. Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (FL): On September 10th of last year, President Obama announced to the American public his plan to degrade and destroy the terrorist group ISIL. While making his case for America's role in the fight against ISIL, the president highlighted our strategy in Yemen and held it up as a model of success to be emulated in the fight against ISIL. Yet about a week later, the Iran backed Houthis seized control of the capital and the government. Despite this, the administration continued to hail our counter-terror operations in Yemen as a model for success, even though we effectively had no partner on the ground since President Hadi was forced to flee. But perhaps even more astonishingly in what can only be described as an alarmingly tone deaf and short sighted, when Press Secretary Ernest was asked at a press briefing if this model was still successful after the Yemeni central government collapsed and the US withdrew all of our personnel including our special forces, he said yes, despite all indications pointing to the contrary. So where do we stand now? That's the important question. President Hadi was forced to flee. Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of over 10 Arab nations and Operation Decisive Storm, which so far has consisted of airstrikes only, but very well could include ground forces in the near future. 4:45 Rep. Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (FL): Iran has reportedly dispatched a naval destroyer near Yemen in a game of chicken over one of the most important shipping routes in the Gulf of Aden. This area is a gateway between Europe and the Middle East and ran was not be allowed to escalate any tensions nor attempt to disrupt the shipping lanes. 13:30 Rep. David Cicilline (NJ): I think it's safe to say that the quick deterioration of the situation in Yemen took many people here in Washington by surprise. For many years, Yemen was held up as an example of counter-terrorism cooperation and it looked as if a political agreement might be achieved in the aftermath of the Arab spring. The United States poured approximately $900 million in foreign aid to Yemen since the transition in 2011 to support counter-terrorism, political reconciliation, the economy and humanitarian aid. Now we face a vastly different landscape and have to revise our assumptions and expectations. Furthermore, we risk being drawn deeply into another Iranian backed armed conflict in the Middle East. 17:30 Rep. Ted Deutch (FL): Following the deposition of Yemen's longtime autocratic Saleh in 2011, the US supported an inclusive transition process. We had national dialogue aimed at rebuilding the country's political and governmental institutions and bridging gaps between groups that have had a long history of conflict. Yemen's first newly elected leader, President Hadi made clear his intentions to cooperate closely with the United States. 18:00 Rep. Ted Deutch (FL): Yemen, the poorest country on the peninsula, needed support from the international community. The United States has long viewed Yemen as a safe haven for all Qaeda terrorists, and there was alarming potential for recruitment by terrorist groups given the dire economic conditions that they faced. In fact, the US Department of Homeland Security considers al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the affiliate, most likely the al Qaeda affiliate, most likely to attempt transnational attacks against the United States. 18:30 Rep. Ted Deutch (FL): While the national dialogue was initially viewed as successful, the process concluded in 2014 with several key reforms still not completed, including the drafting of the new constitution. The Hadi government had continued to face deep opposition from Yemen's northern tribes, mainly the Shiite Iranian backed Houthi rebels, over the past year. The Houthis, in coordination with tribes and military units still loyal to Saleh, began increasing their territorial control, eventually moving in to Sanaa. Saleh had long been thought to have used his existing relationship to undermine the Hadi government. Houthis are well trained, well funded, and experienced fighters, having fought the Yemeni government and Saudi Arabia in 2009. 23:15 Gerald Feierstein: I greatly appreciate this opportunity to come before you today to review recent developments in Yemen and the efforts that the United States is undertaking to support the government of Yemen under president Rabu Mansour Hadi and the Saudi led coalition of Operation Decisive Storm, that is aimed at restoring the legitimate government and restarting the negotiations to find peaceful political solutions to Yemen's internal conflict. 26:45 Gerald Feierstein: To the best of our understanding, the Houthis are not controlled directly by Iran. However, we have seen in recent years, significant growth and expansion of Iranian engagement with the Houthis. We believe that Iran sees opportunities with the Houthis to expand its influence in Yemen and threatened Saudi and Gulf Arab interests. Iran provides financial support, weapons training, and intelligence of the Houthis and the weeks and months since the Houthis entered Sanaa and forced the legitimate government first to resign and ultimately to flee from the capitol, we have seen a significant expansion of Iranian involvement in Yemen's domestic affairs. 27:30 Gerald Feierstein: We are also particularly concerned about the ongoing destabilizing role played by former President Saleh, who since his removal from power in 2011 has actively plotted to undermine President Hadi and the political transition process. Despite UN sanctions and international condemnation of his actions, Saleh continues to be one of the primary sources of the chaos in Yemen. We have been working with our Gulf partners and the international community to isolate him and prevent the continuation of his efforts to undermine the peaceful transition. Success in that effort will go a long way to helping Yemen return to a credible political transition process. 42:00 Gerald Feierstein: From our perspective, I would say that that Yemen is a unique situation for the Saudis. This is on their border. It represents a threat in a way that no other situation would represent. 52:30 Gerald Feierstein: I mean, obviously our hope would be that if we can get the situation stabilized and get the political process going again, that we would be able to return and that we would be able to continue implementing the kinds of programs that we were trying to achieve that are aimed at economic growth and development as well as supporting a democratic governance and the opportunity to try to build solid political foundations for the society. At this particular moment, we can't do that, but it's hard to predict where we might be in six months or nine months from now. 1:10:00 Gerald Feierstein: When the political crisis came in Yemen in 2011, AQAP was able to take advantage of that and increase its territorial control, to the extent that they were actually declaring areas of the country to be an Islamic caliphate, not unlike what we see with ISIL in Iraq and Syria these days. Because of our cooperation, primarily our cooperation with the Yemeni security forces, uh, we were able to, uh, to defeat that, uh, at a significant loss of a life for AQAP. Uh, as a result of that, they changed their tactics. They went back to being a more traditional terrorist organization. They were able to attack locations inside of, uh, inside of Sanaa and and elsewhere. But the fact of the matter is that, uh, that we, uh, were achieving a progress in our ability to pressure them, uh, and, uh, to keep them on the defensive as opposed to giving them lots of time. And remember in 2009 in 2010, uh, we saw AQAP mount a fairly serious efforts - the underwear bomber and then also the cassette tape effort to attack the United States. After 2010, uh, they were not able to do that, uh, despite the fact that their intent was still as clear and as strong as it was before. And so a while AQAP was by no means defeated and continue to be a major threat to security here in the United States as well as in Yemen and elsewhere around the world, nevertheless, I think that it was legitimate to say that we had achieved some success in the fight against AQAP. Unfortunately what we're seeing now because of the change in the situation again, inside of Yemen, uh, is that we're losing some of the gains that we were able to make, uh, during that period of 2012 to 2014. That's why it's so important that we, uh, have, uh, the ability to get the political negotiation started again, so that we can re-establish legitimate government inside of Sanaa that will cooperate with us once again in this fight against violent extremist organizations. 1:16:45 Rep. Ted Yoho (FL): How can we be that far off? And I know you explained the counter-terrorism portion, but yet to have a country taken over while we're sitting there working with them and this happens. I feel, you know, it just kinda happened overnight the way our embassy got run out of town and just says, you have to leave. Your marines cannot take their weapons with them. I, I just, I don't understand how that happens or how we can be that disconnected. Um, what are your thoughts on that? Gerald Feierstein: You know, it was very, it was very frustrating. Again, I think that, if you go back to where we were a year ago, the successful conclusion of the National Dialogue Conference, which was really the last major hurdle and completion of the GCC initiative, Houthis participated in that. They participated in the constitutional drafting exercise, which was completed successfully. Uh, and so we were in the process of moving through all of the requirements of the GCC initiative that would allow us to complete successfully the political transition. I think there were a combination of things. One, that there was a view on the part of the Houthis that they were not getting everything that they wanted. They were provoked, in our view, by Ali Abdullah Saleh, who never stopped plotting from the very first day after he signed the agreement on the GCC initiative. He never stopped plotting to try to block the political transition, and there was, to be frank, there was a weakness in the government and an inability on the part of the government to really build the kind of alliances and coalition that would allow them to sustain popular support and to bring this to a successful conclusion. And so I think that all through this period there was a sense that we were moving forward and that we believed that we could succeed in implementing this peaceful transition. And yet we always knew that on the margins there were threats and there were risks, and unfortunately we got to a point where the Houthis and Ali Abdullah Saleh, my personal view is that they recognized that they had reached the last possible moment, where they could obstruct the peaceful political transition that was bad for them because it would mean that they wouldn't get everything that they wanted, and so they saw that time was running out for them, and they decided to act. And unfortunately, the government was unable to stop them. Hearing: Targeted Killing of Terrorist Suspects Overseas, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, C-SPAN, April 23, 2013. Sound Clips: 44:30 Farea al-Muslimi: My name as you mentioned, is Farea al-Muslimi, and I am from Wessab, a remote village mountain in Yemen. I spent a year living with an American family and attended an American high school. That was one of the best years of my life. I learned about American culture, managed the school basketball team and participated in trick or treat and Halloween. But the most exceptional was coming to know someone who ended up being like a father to me. He was a member of the U S Air Force and most of my year was spent with him and his family. He came to the mosque with me and I went to church with him and he became my best friend in America. I went to the U.S. as an ambassador for Yemen and I came back to Yemen as an ambassador of the U.S. I could never have imagined that the same hand that changed my life and took it from miserable to a promising one would also drone my village. My understanding is that a man named Hamid al-Radmi was the target of the drone strike. Many people in Wessab know al-Radmi, and the Yemeni government could easily have found and arrested him. al-Radmi was well known to government officials and even local government could have captured him if the U.S. had told them to do so. In the past, what Wessab's villagers knew of the U.S. was based on my stories about my wonderful experiences had. The friendships and values I experienced and described to the villagers helped them understand the America that I know and that I love. Now, however, when they think of America, they think of the terror they feel from the drones that hover over their heads ready to fire missiles at any time. What violent militants had previously failed to achieve one drone strike accomplished in an instant. 1:17:30 Farea al-Muslimi: I think the main difference between this is it adds into Al Qaeda propaganda of that Yemen is a war with the United States. The problem of Al Qaeda, if you look to the war in Yemen, it's a war of mistakes. The less mistake you make, the more you win, and the drones have simply made more mistakes than AQAP has ever done in the matter of civilians. News Report: Untold Stories of the underwear bomber: what really happened, ABC News 7 Detroit, September 27, 2012. Part 1 Part 2 Hearing: U.S. Policy Toward Yemen, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, C-SPAN, July 19, 2011. Witnesses: Janet Sanderson: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Daniel Benjamin: State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator Sound Clips: 21:00 Janet Sanderson: The United States continues its regular engagement with the government, including with President Ali, Abdullah Saleh, who's currently, as you know, recovering in Saudi Arabia from his injuries following the June 3rd attack on his compound, the acting president, Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, the opposition, civil society activists, and others interested in Yemen's future. We strongly support the Gulf Cooperation Council's initiative, which we believe would lead to a peaceful and orderly political transition. The GCC initiative signed by both the ruling General People's Congress party and the opposition coalition, joint meeting parties. Only president Saleh is blocking the agreement moving forward and we continue to call on him to sign the initiative. 22:30 Janet Sanderson: While most protests in Yemen have been peaceful over the last couple of months, there have been violent clashes between pro- and anti-government demonstrators and between protesters and government security forces and irregular elements using forced to break up demonstrations. The United States is strongly urged the Yemeni government to investigate and prosecute all acts of violence against protesters. 27:00 Janet Sanderson: We strongly believe that a transition is necessary, that an orderly, peaceful transition is the only way to begin to lead Yemen out of the crisis that it has been in for the last few months. 34:30 Daniel Benjamin: Really, I just want to echo what ambassador Sanderson said. It is vitally important that the transition take place. 1:02:15 Daniel Benjamin: The the view from the administration, particularly from a DOD, which is doing of course, the lion's share of the training, although State Department through anti-terrorism training is doing, uh, uh, a good deal as well, is that the Yemenis are, uh, improving their capacities, that they are making good progress towards, uh, being, able to deal with the threats within their border. But it is important to recognize that, uh, uh, our engagement in Yemen was interrupted for many years. Uh, Yemen, uh, did not have the kind of mentoring programs, the kind of training programs that many of our other counter-terrorism partners had. Um, it was really when the Obama administration came into office that a review was done, uh, in, in March of, uh, beginning in March of 2009, it was recognized that Yemen was a major challenge in the world of counter terrorism. And it was not until, uh, December after many conversations with the Yemenis that we really felt that they were on-board with the project and in fact took their first actions against AQAP. This, as you may recall, was just shortly before the attempted, uh, December 25th bombing of the northwest flight. So this is a military and a set of, uh, Ministry of Interior that is civilian, uh, units that are making good progress, but obviously have a lot to learn. So, uh, again, vitally important that we get back to the work of training these units so that they can, uh, take on the missions they need to. Press Conference: Yemen Conference, C-SPAN, January 27, 2010. Speakers: David Miliband - British Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton - Secretary of State Abu Bakr al-Kurbi - Yemeni Foreign Minister Sound Clips: 3:30 David Miliband: And working closely with the government of Yemen, we decided that our agenda needed to cover agreement on the nature of the problem and then address the, uh, solutions across the economic, social, and political terrain. Five key items were agreed at the meeting for the way in which the international community can support progress in Yemen. First, confirmation by the government of Yemen, that it will continue to pursue its reform agenda and agreement to start discussion of an IMF program. The director of the IMF represented at the meeting made a compelling case for the way in which economic reform could be supported by the IMF. This is important because it will provide welcome support and help the government of Yemen confront its immediate challenges. 11:45 Hillary Clinton: The United States just signed a three year umbrella assistance agreement with the government of Yemen that will augment Yemen's capacity to make progress. This package includes initiatives that will cover a range of programs, but the overarching goal of our work is to increase the capacity and governance of Yemen and give the people of Yemen the opportunity to better make choices in their own lives. President Saleh has outlined a 10 point plan for economic reform along with the country's national reform agenda. Those are encouraging signs of progress. Neither, however, will mean much if they are not implemented. So we expect Yemen to enact reforms, continue to combat corruption, and improve the country's investment in business climate. 15:45 Abu Bakr al-Kurbi: This commitment also stems from our belief that the challenges we are facing now cannot be remedied unless we implement this agenda of reforms and the 10 points that her exellency alluded to because this is now a priority number of issues that we have to start with, and I hope this is what will be one of the outcomes of this meeting. 16:30 Hillary Clinton: One of the factors that's new is the IMF's involvement and commitment. the IMF has come forward with a reform agenda that the government of Yemen has agreed to work on. 24:30 Hillary Clinton: We were pleased by the announcement of a cease fire, um, between the Saudis and the Houthis. That should lead, we hope, to broader negotiations and a political dialogue that might lead to a permanent, uh, end to the conflict in the north. It's too soon to tell. 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Stille Nacht gefälligst! Tagesschau missachtet Weihnachtsfrieden. Während sich die Deutschen auf besinnliche und ruhige Weihnachten vorbereiten, braut die Tagesschau an ihrem gewohnt giftigen Nachrichten-Sud: Die Grundlage bildet der Einheitsbrei, denn alle anderen schreiben, senden oder vermelden dasselbe. Die Tagesschau reichert den Brei noch mit einer kräftigen Prise Kannitverstan an, gibt ein paar Löffel Ignoranz hinzu und lässt dann alles langsam auf der Flamme der Russophobie köcheln. KANNITVERSTAN Zwar vermeldet die Hamburger Redaktion „Wegen US-Politik - Türkei droht mit Schließung von Incirlik“. Sie kann aber die Schließung des US-Militärstützpunktes beim besten Willen nicht in einen Zusammenhang zu den deutschen US-Stützpunkten bringen. Obwohl der US-Präsident Trump gerade in den letzten Tagen auch die Deutschen mit Sanktionen bedroht hat: Sie sollen sofort den Bau einer weiteren Pipeline in Richtung Russland stoppen, sonst . . . Das wäre doch eine prima Situation, in der eine professionelle Redaktion die Frage nach den US-Stützpunkten in Deutschland stellen könnte: Nach den Atom-Bomben in Büchel oder der Drohnen-Steuerungszentrale in Ramstein. Aber da bleiben die Journalisten in Hamburg lieber atlantisch und devot: Keine Frage kommt ihnen über die Lippen. IGNORANZ Geradezu dröhnend verkündet die angebliche Nachrichtensendung der ARD „Seehofer-Konzept - Mehr Personal gegen Rechtsextremismus“ und ignoriert komplett, dass der Rechtsextremismus ein Kind des staatlichen Verfassungsschutz war und wahrscheinlich immer noch ist: Denn zum Beispiel die Gründung der Terror-Gruppe NSU wurde von mindestens einem V-Mann des Geheimdienstes inspiriert. Die Schredder-Orgien im Amt sind bis heute nicht aufgeklärt und die Rolle des hessischen CDU-Ministerpräsidenten, der die NSU-Amtsakte für 120 Jahre der Aufklärung entzieht und die Aussageverweigerung der Geheimdienstler unterstützt, wird bis heute von den Öffentlich-Rechtlichen öffentlich kaum diskutiert. All das ignoriert die Redaktion und macht so die angeblichen Nachrichten zur regierungsamtlichen Verlautbarung. RUSSOPHOBIE Über Tage hatte die Tagesschau den sogenannten „Tiergarten-Mord“ den Russen in die Schuhe geschoben und so in das russophobische Horn der Regierung getutet. Auch als die deutsche Regierung in einem kurzen Prozess ohne Beweise russische Diplomaten auswies, fielen den Redakteuren keine Fragen ein, geschweige, dass sie Zweifel anmeldeten. Immerhin mussten sie sich jetzt diese Schlagzeile abringen: „Tiergarten-Mord - Diplomaten zu eilig ausgewiesen?“. Anlass war die Enthüllung der LINKEN-Abgeordneten Sevim Dagdelen: „Die Bundesregierung hat gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit als Grund für die Ausweisung den Eindruck erweckt, dass die russische Justiz nicht adäquat kooperiere. Es erschüttert nun die Glaubwürdigkeit der Bundesregierung, dass deutsche Behörden erst Monate nach dem Mord und sogar auch noch nach der Ausweisung der russischen Diplomaten offizielle Rechtshilfeersuchen an die russische Seite stellten.“ Zwar hatte die Tagesschau munter mitgelogen, aber eine Entschuldigung oder Erklärung für ihre antirussische Agitation fällt ihr bis heute nicht ein. Häufig wird die Frage gestellt, warum sich die MACHT-UM-ACHT ständig und gründlich ausgerechnet mit der Tagesschau auseinandersetzt. Die Antwort ist einfach: Diese ARD-Sendung hat die höchsten Quoten von allen deutschen Medien. Und sie ist eine Institution, die von den anderen Medien, ob RTL, BILD oder der Apothekenumschau als Leitmedium betrachtet wird. Auch deshalb empfehlen wir zum Jahreswechsel ein besonderes und preiswertes Geschenk: Sendet die Videos der MACHT-UM-ACHT Euren (Ihren) Verwandten. Freunden, Bekannten, Kollegen und Nachbarn. Bringt Medien-Kritik unter die Menschen. Das kann Freude machen und ganz sicher den Bildungsgrad erhöhen. Der Journalist und Filmemacher Uli Gellermann beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit der Dauermanipulation der Tagesschau. Gemeinsam mit den Co-Autoren, Volker Bräutigam und Friedhelm Klinkhammer, schrieb er das Buch „Die Macht um Acht: der Faktor Tagesschau“. Eine herausragende Lektüre über die tägliche Nachrichtensendung der ARD. Bei KenFM nimmt er mit dem gleichnamigen Format die subtile Gehirnwäsche der Tagesschau alle zwei Wochen unter die Lupe. Dir gefällt unser Programm? Informationen zu Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten hier: https://kenfm.de/support/kenfm-unters... Jetzt kannst Du uns auch mit Bitcoins unterstützen. BitCoin-Adresse: 18FpEnH1Dh83GXXGpRNqSoW5TL1z1PZgZK Abonniere jetzt den KenFM-Newsletter: https://kenfm.de/newsletter/ KenFM jetzt auch als kostenlose App für Android- und iOS-Geräte verfügbar! Über unsere Homepage kommt Ihr zu den Stores von Apple und Google. Hier der Link: https://kenfm.de/kenfm-app/ https://www.kenfm.de https://www.twitter.com/TeamKenFM https://www.youtube.com/KenFM See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Darrell Castle talks about Turkey, especially its arrest of Pastor Andrew Brunson, as well as U.S. sanctions on that country and the resulting Turkish economic troubles. Transcription / Notes TALKING TURKEY Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report.  Today is Friday, August 24, 2018, and on this report I will be talking about Turkey.  Not the kind of turkey you might have for Thanksgiving or Christmas but the kind that is a country located on the northern border of Syria in the Middle East.  The kind that is so strategically located that it controls Russian access to its only entrance to the Mediterranean.  You may have heard that the United States is having some problems with Turkey right now and, in fact, has recently placed some economic sanctions on that country and some of its leaders individually.  In addition, there have been disagreements over the roles of Turkey and the United States in Syria, which inspired Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to go to Turkey in June of this year and work out a deal with his Turkish counterpart to avoid conflict there. Most, or all, of the problems could have probably been resolved except for one thing, and that thing is Pastor Andrew Brunson.  Pastor Brunson has lived and worked in Turkey for 23 years but one month before the 2016 elections, he was taken into custody by Turkish authorities.  Mr. Brunson, an Evangelical Presbyterian pastor, was called to a local police station in the town of Izmir for what he assumed was a routine police procedure to renew his Turkish visa. After being told he was to be deported within 15 days, he was held incognito for a week.  He was denied access to his lawyer, who said that he was told Mr. Brunson had refused counsel.  He was denied access to the U.S. consulate, which is a violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, as well as a time-honored international agreement. For a year and a half he was held without being charged with a crime.  In March 2018, he was charged with support for a terrorist group and with espionage.  He was confined to his cell 24 hours a day in conditions one might expect in a Turkish prison.  Finally, in July he was released to house arrest.  His Turkish lawyer said he was arrested because he practices the Christian faith.  His being the pastor of a small Evangelical Presbyterian church with 25 members was classified as “aiding a terrorist organization.” The Trump administration has taken the position that he was arrested and put through a sham trial because of his religious faith.  Vice President Mike Pence said that publicly in a speech last July.  This incident with Pastor Brunson demonstrates the turn Turkey has taken under the leadership of Recep Erdogan toward radical Islam, and away from Turkey's long relationship with the U.S. and its allies. Erdogan rose to power democratically in 2002 but quickly began the process of transforming Turkey into a radical Islamic State.  Step-by-step he assumed lifetime dictatorial powers aligning Turkey with the terrorist organizations Hamas and the Islamic State.  He has been very friendly with Iran, resisting U.S. sanctions on Iran at every turn.  He conducts military exercises with the Chinese and has purchased Russian S-400 antiaircraft missile systems.  Since Turkey is a NATO member, he is able to provide the enemies of NATO with information on how to defeat U.S. anti-air defense systems. U.S. administrations before the Trump administration have tried to ignore the growing problems because, I would guess, of Turkey's strategic geopolitical importance.  The United States has an airbase at Incirlik, Turkey, which U.S. and NATO forces have used to project power into the Middle East and around the world.  The U.S. reportedly, and ominously, has about 50 nuclear weapons stored at Incirlik.  Turkey is the gateway to both Asia and Europe, serving as a passage between the two and also serving as Russia's outlet to the Mediterranean.  If that were all,

Eine gefühlte Ewigkeit streitet sich die Bundesregierung jetzt mit der türkischen Regierung um das Besuchsrecht der deutschen Abgeordneten bei den Bundeswehrsoldaten, die in der Türkei auf dem Standort Incirlik stationiert sind. Angela Merkel drohte offen mit dem Abzug, der türkische Präsident zeigte sich unbeeindruckt und provoziert weiter. Jetzt gibt es ein Ultimatum. Worum geht es bei dem Streit eigentlich und warum ist die Bundesregierung so zögerlich?

WWW.TRUNEWS.COM01/09/17: Will Obama’s Legacy be the Loss of Incirlik Airbase?Will President Obama’s legacy be the Turkish eviction of US airmen from Incirlik Airbase? Today on TRUNEWS, Pastor Rick Wiles details the growing schism in the Middle East as the Instigator-in-Chief uses his final days to enable plutonium transfers to Iran, bad mouth Netanyahu on Israeli TV, and drive Erdogan toward toward Russia. Pastor Rick also discusses the possibility Fort Lauderdale jihadist Esteban Santiago may be a byproduct of the CIA’s ‘deactivated’ MK Ultra program.

WWW.TRUNEWS.COM01/09/17: Will Obama’s Legacy be the Loss of Incirlik Airbase?Will President Obama’s legacy be the Turkish eviction of US airmen from Incirlik Airbase? Today on TRUNEWS, Pastor Rick Wiles details the growing schism in the Middle East as the Instigator-in-Chief uses his final days to enable plutonium transfers to Iran, bad mouth Netanyahu on Israeli TV, and drive Erdogan toward toward Russia. Pastor Rick also discusses the possibility Fort Lauderdale jihadist Esteban Santiago may be a byproduct of the CIA’s ‘deactivated’ MK Ultra program.

WWW.TRUNEWS.COM 01/09/17: Will Obamaâ??s Legacy be the Loss of Incirlik Airbase? Will President Obamaâ??s legacy be the Turkish eviction of US airmen from Incirlik Airbase? Today on TRUNEWS, Pastor Rick Wiles details the growing schism in the Middle East as the Instigator-in-Chief uses his final days to enable plutonium transfers to Iran, bad mouth Netanyahu on Israeli TV, and drive Erdogan toward toward Russia. Pastor Rick also discusses the possibility Fort Lauderdale jihadist Esteban Santiago may be a byproduct of the CIAâ??s â??deactivatedâ?? MK Ultra program.

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Reliable Russian and CIA contacts both told the White Dragon Society that the top bosses of the Khazarian mafia are seeking to trade shelter in Russia for gold. This is just the latest in a whole slew of signs Khazarian mafia rule of the planet earth is crumbling. The White Dragon Society and its allies will continue to press the offensive with the aim of permanently ending their rule as early as this autumn. Another big sign of Khazarian mafia defeat has been the degrading treatment given to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA corporate spokesperson Barack Obama in Asia and elsewhere. Obama was literally denied red carpet treatment on his arrival in China for last weekendâ??s G20 summit. This was in sharp contrast to the super VIP treatment given to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has been recommended to China by the WDS as a better leader for North America than either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Trudeau was treated like a superstar in China during a one week visit that resulted in Canada publicly dumping its support of the US corporate government by announcing its intention to join the China led AIIB. Japan is now expected to follow suit, leaving the US corporate government isolated on the world stage. Obama was also forced to cancel a planned meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after Duterte called him a â??son of a whore.â?? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/05/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-barack-obama-son-whore Barack Obama cancels meeting after Philippines president â?¦ www.theguardian.com Rodrigo Duterte further strains diplomatic ties with Washington as he warns US leader not to question him on extrajudicial killings This matters because the US corporate shift to Asia depended in large part on stoking territorial disputes between China the Philippines and other ASEAN countries. Instead, the ASEAN countries agreed with China to settle their territorial disputes peacefully. There is a lot more humiliation and hopefully oblivion in store for the US corporate government as the September 31st fiscal year end approaches. Efforts to finally bankrupt them center on international dumping of US Treasury bonds combined with gold buying. There is also a huge campaign under way now to make sure the supply of drug and oil money to the Federal Reserve Board and its US corporate government subsidiary is cut off so they will be unable to kick the bankruptcy can down the road any further. Duterteâ??s murderous campaign against drug dealers in the Philippines is just one aspect of this. The big campaign to cut off cocaine money from South America is also intensifying. The US military white hats are doing their part by cutting off all Bush/Clinton Nazi faction CIA drug flights through the Incirlik airbase in Turkey, the Ramstein airbase in Germany and the Bondsteel base in Kosovo, Pentagon sources say. The recent confusing and contradictory news about ISIS in Iraq and Syria is all about cutting off oil revenue to the Bush/Clinton faction of the cabal. The Russians and US military white hats are now cooperating with the Turks, the Iranians and the Syrians to make this happen. The situation has reached the point where the handlers of Hillary Clinton contacted the WDS to say they

Did you hear Incirlik Air Base was surrounded by Turkish military forces this weekend? Today on TRUNEWS, Rick Wiles breaks down the shocking state of disarray Obama has taken our military, as combat bases across America have been placed on red alert. Rick also addresses the continuing rise of Islam, as Europe is brought to their knees by politically correct paralysis and mentally ill leadership.

A few Airmen at Incirlik enjoyed some friendly competition at the base’s RC truck racing tournament.

AFN Incirlik's new antenna and terrestrial broadcast equipment installation.

Air Force Report: German Panavia Tornadoes arrive to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.

Hello Air Force! My first day started off with the bright lights of day when it should have been 2am. I got about 4 hours of sleep thanks to the “sleepy pills” the on-plane physician handed out. I am your normal everyday military spouse who happens to be a clinician, but I am going to do my best to share with you what I experienced today. My hope is that I can take this experience and translate it in a way that coffee will encourage you to invest in your marriage. We landed at INCIRLIK Air Base in Turkey which conducts many of the airstrike missions in Syria. US Families (mostly Air Force) are stationed here much like any other OCONUS assignment but because of the rising tensions in and around Turkey and its border with Syria, families have been placed on lockdown and cannot leave base. Many of the families that were here before the lockdown remember what it is like to travel into the city, which makes it even harder. I imagined that many of them feel isolated and trapped. Can you imagine some of the new spouses getting an assignment to Turkey and then finding out they can’t leave the base once here? While here, there was a town hall for military families where they could ask Secretary Carter questions. Most of the questions were on the lockdown, how long it would continue, and would there be an upcoming forced evacuation. Secretary Carter was very encouraging that he did not foresee a forced evacuation and hoped that things would improve. My mission here is to understand what it is like for our service members. Seeing our Air Force in full force was intimidating, in a good way. They are putting in long hours both on the ground and in the air. Many of the spouses here described how much better they understand deployments now that they are watching “at home deployments” play out in front of them. Their service member is tired but determined to complete the incredible mission given them. The threat of ISIS is very real. It already feels real to us there in America, but here our military families can’t even leave base to go into town. The importance of building allies and coalition partners is necessary and our leaders are working hard to do it. It was incredible to see Airmen from Germany, Spain, and Turkey all joining our personnel for the same cause. Some of the coalition airmen stood up to thank our US airmen for their hospitality and how proud they were to be fighting ISIS with us. Turkey was warm for December. Not as hot as it would be in the summer, but the families there are enjoying 70 degree weather. Seeing the city in the distance made me wonder how safe some of the families are out there. One spouse here is Turkish and cannot get off base to see her mother. I can’t imagine who scary that is! Since I am an Army spouse, I have to give a shout out to the incredible power we have in our aircraft. I saw every plane you can imagine lined up, many of them loaded with the bombs that are ready for the next mission. As my heart rumbled in my chest as the fighter jets took off, I couldn’t help but be thankful for what they do and the amount of skill and precision they develop to do it. I totally get it Air Force Spouses- it is pretty incredible to witness. From the moment I stepped on this historic plane, refueling in air, and then visiting Incirlik, I am so proud of our Air Force. My father was a pilot in the Air Force and I feel like I am seeing him in his jumpsuit around every corner. Today’s #PowerofMarriage message is this: 1. The mission our service members are called to do is not only real, but more important than ever. It is a noble cause whether it is to protect our lives or someone else’s. Keeping their mind on the mission is paramount to success in that moment. As hard as it is to let them go and not heap unnecessary stress on them- it is the right thing to do. This doesn’t mean that we don’t communicate. On the contrary, it means that we learn to communicate better, quicker, identifying the root issue so that it can be resolved or processed. Striving not for perfection, but for peace, is not only good for us, but beneficial for them. 2. Our military tempo is very different than it used to be. Deployments aren’t going away, if anything we are adding a new component that keep hearing about from spouses. It is the deployment from home- the long work hours that feel like a deployment. I’m not sure, perhaps some of you would say one is easier than the other. Both are stressful on the relationship. Be intentional with your time together. Decide together how and when you will decompress by setting a specific time and time limit.

The base chapel on Incirlik, hosted a Thanksgiving meal for all the Airmen who can't go home for the holiday.

More than 160 US and NATO service members participated in the 1st annual Incirlik Half-Marathon.

CMSAF James Cody recently visited Airman at Incirlik Air Base.

Incirlik’s cable dawgs make all essential (and some non-essential) base operations possible.

Incirlik is a small base with a vital role in our Air Force mission. Its strategic location lends it to a lot of challenges, including operating one of the busiest radars in all of USAFE.

Professional comedians performed at the club in Incirlik.

Airman First Class Katelynn Moeller takes us to the Incirlik Chapel Gardens, where service members paid tribute to a Chaplain killed in action.

Secretary of the Air Force, Deborah Lee James visited Airmen at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey.

Major General Christopher Bence visited Airmen at Incirlik.