SECURITY: Prince Saud’s Arab army plans. US operations against Al-Qaeda in Yemen

Issue 891 - 10 Dec 2010 | 1 minute read

Foreign minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal proposed a Nato-backed Arab army to destroy the Iranian-backed Hizbollah movement in Lebanon in 2008. Documents released by WikiLeaks suggest that certain military operations against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, claimed by Sanaa to be the work of Yemeni forces, were carried out by the US.

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