US officials: The US-UAE military operation in Shabwa is merely an “illusion” of seizing oil and gas resources

US officials played down the importance of the joint US-UAE military operation in Shabwa province against al-Qaeda, saying the operation they described as “alleged” was only “two” for seizing oil and gas wells and deceiving world public opinion to conceal strategic relations between al-Qaeda and Daesh.,  as similar to the alleged operation in Hadramout. 

The attack in the province of Shabwa began last Wednesday and includes some 2,000 Yemeni soldiers known as the “Shaban elite,” supported by dozens of advisers from the United Arab Emirates and a small number of the United States, according to the newspaper “The New York Times” American commandos providing intelligence and planning assistance. 

The newspaper said: officials who reserved their names – that shortly before the arrival of US-backed forces to the area of Azan – al-Qaeda stronghold – residents said they saw unmanned aircraft and helicopters, and warplanes over the area to launch initial warning shots and far from sites And organizing camps. 

“The planes were firing sound bombs at targets inside and outside the city, as if the purpose was to tell al Qaeda operatives to flee before the arrival of the new forces,” the residents said. 

US officials said al-Qaeda gunmen received the message and left the city and other nearby villages.  By Friday night, US-backed and Emirati troops entered the city of Azzan and extended the following day to Habban and into the city of Ataq, the provincial center. 

Mohammed Salem al-Qamishi, commander of a group of UAE-backed forces, said the forces had seized 13 checkpoints and three areas in Shabwa.  Pointing out that al Qaeda militants “fled to the mountains after their failure to stop our forces.” 

“The military operation is clearly designed to secure oil and gas facilities in the province of Shabwa,” the newspaper quoted a Yemeni government official as saying on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. 

“The Sudanese, Yemeni and Yemeni soldiers are protecting them,” said Khalid al-Adhami, the militia commander in charge of security for the facility and a pro-coalition supporter of the New York Times. “ The facility is safe from al Qaeda attacks,” he said. 

Local and security sources and eyewitnesses in Shabwa told Yemen Today that there was no fighting on the ground and that it was an agreed process of receiving and delivering between the tools of the occupation (al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood on the one hand and the UAE-backed militias on the other, United Arab Emirates. 

The sources pointed out that prior to the entry into Shabwa, a terrorist incident was manufactured in the area of Rezum adjacent to Hadramout, an explosive device at a security point left dead and wounded, to be a justification for the control of Shabwa and oil wells and export port, and the output of the “play” comic. 

Speaking to Yemen today, Dr. Navez Ahmed, the British researcher and international security researcher, said that the scenario of Operation “Mukalla” is a kin to Shabwa.  Today, the objective is to seize the pipeline. 

He went on to “Yemen Today” by e-mail: “Just as the US-UAE-Saudi alliance visited the alleged attack on al-Qaeda in Hadramout seized the port of Mukalla and the oil pipeline and the forces of al-Qaeda went all the equipment to the desert, today goes to Shabwa, the same plan and the same Scenario to seize the oil and gas wells. ” 

He reiterated that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies wanted a direct route to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean to keep oil flowing. 

Navez said the Western-backed military alliance, which had turned Yemen into small pieces, had an unprecedented opportunity to crush al-Qaeda’s al-Qaeda.  Instead, nearly 1,000 Islamist militants were allowed to flee to safety under a secret deal concluded between them.  He wondered: Is it a reward?  Or is it a quick, bloodless takeover of the lucrative oil and gas pipeline for the Gulf? 

A British diplomat was also quoted as saying that Saudi Arabia had worked to support Yemeni military leaders and pay the right price to buy the loyalty of elders and other means to secure access to pipelines from the successor to President Saleh. 

Michael Horton said

“The construction of the Hadramout pipeline will give Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies direct access to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean and will allow them to cross the Straits of Hormuz, a strategic corridor that could be closed even temporarily if there is a conflict, With Iran in the future. ” 

For her part, confirmed political analyst and researcher in particular radical movements and Yemen, Catherine Shakdam, the US-Saudi-UAE alliance works to control the main oil routes and sea routes. 

“In contrast to the official allegations of a major Western-backed attack on al-Qaeda in the capital of Hadramout and the port city of Mukalla last April, the alleged attack was so far-fetched,” she said. 

Instead, the Western-backed coalition held weeks of secret negotiations with AQAP before planned military action.  On the day of the “alleged attack,” al-Qaeda, the strategic oil port, surrendered peacefully to the “attackers.”  In return, al-Qaeda gave the green light a safe exit to the desert and not to intercept or capture a
last April, the alleged attack was so far-fetched,” she said.  Instead, the Western-backed coalition held weeks of secret negotiations with AQAP before planned military action.  On the day of the “alleged attack,” al-Qaeda, the strategic oil port, surrendered peacefully to the “attackers.”  In return, al-Qaeda gave the green light a safe exit to the desert and not to intercept or capture a

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