Infowars.com
August 12, 2013
A high-ranking Yemeni security official has told
McClatchy that the Obama administration’s recently announced terror
threat which supposedly targeted US embassies had “no basis in fact” and
was manufactured merely to dampen opposition to drone strikes.
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After initially warning of a terror plot “thought to
have been one of the most serious against American and other Western
interests since the September 11 attacks,” the US closed 20 embassies
and consulates earlier this month, 18 of which reopened yesterday.
The announcement of the threat occurred as it was simultaneously acknowledged that
the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last year was linked to a
clandestine CIA arms smuggling operation based in the Libyan city that
was being used to transport arms to rebels in Syria, many of whom are
allied with Al-Qaeda militants.
The announcement of the threat against US embassies also
served to justify blanket NSA surveillance, leading some to suggest
that the alleged plot was being hyped to distract from the Edward
Snowden scandal. It was later claimed that the NSA had intercepted a
“conference call” of Al-Qaeda members during which militants discussed
an attack.
However, in a report entitled U.S. embassies in Muslim world reopen amid still-murky threats,
McClatchy cites, “A high-ranking Yemeni security official speaking on
the condition of anonymity,” who told the news outlet that the threat
“had no basis in fact,” with the source bemusedly attributing “media
reports about imminent terror strikes to a single official’s comments,
which he cast as a misguided attempt at shifting public opinion in the
face of increasing and unpopular American drone strikes.”
Dozens of people, labeled “suspected militants” by the
US, have been killed in Yemen over the last two weeks as a result of at
least eight drone strikes, attacks that have outraged Yemeni citizens.
According to Princeton University professor and Yemen expert Gregory
Johnson, the drone strikes are actually serving to recruit more
terrorists.
“There are strikes that kill civilians. There are
strikes that kill women and children. And when you kill people in Yemen,
these are people who have families. They have clans. And they have
tribes. And what we’re seeing is that the United States might target a
particular individual because they see him as a member of al-Qaeda. But
what’s happening on the ground is that he’s being defended as a
tribesman,” said Johnson.
Figures show that
50 civilians are killed for every one terrorist taken out by a drone
strike, which means that 95% of the victims are innocent men, women and
children.
As Ron Paul notes in
his column today, while the Obama administration is conducting drone
strikes in Yemen to supposedly target Al-Qaeda terrorists, the White
House is simultaneously supporting the allies of Al-Qaeda terrorists,
the vast majority of whom have pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, in Syria.
Furthermore, as the high-ranking Yemeni security
official reveals, the administration is also apparently manufacturing
terror plots in order to justify these drone strikes as well as mass NSA
surveillance.
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