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Title: Support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen targeted by bill in US Congress
Post by: TomSea on October 12, 2017, 02:29:33 am

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Support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen targeted by bill in US Congress
James Reinl

Fighting has claimed 10,000 lives in Yemen's two-and-a-half-year-old conflict (AFP)

Pulling support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen is not enough: The United States must go further and probe whether its decades-old ties with Riyadh have helped it – or simply sucked Washington into divisive, bungled Middle Eastern quagmires, US Congressman Ro Khanna told Middle East Eye.

Khanna, a Democrat representative for California’s Silicon Valley area, urged the House to vote this week on his bill to stop helping the Saudi-led coalition with military targeting and the midair refuelling of warplanes in Yemen.

Continued at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-us-bill-aims-halt-support-saudi-arabias-war-yemen-503059523

Maybe this Democrat is right.