Yemeni President acknowledges approving the U.S. strikes drone
The Source: Hadramoutinfo/ Almukalla today.net - 30/September/2012
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Yemen's president said Saturday that he is personally granted approval on all U.S. raid drone in his country, and a description of the aircraft are controlled without the need for a pilot, as a technical marvel helped to reverse the gains made by al-Qaeda.
The President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi offer new details about the surveillance operations conducted by the Joint Operations Center and private counter-terrorism missions, and said that the center includes military and intelligence officials from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The comments of Hadi consider as the first of its kind to recognize publicly the direct role played by drones and traditional American warplanes in the framework of a campaign of air strikes carried out by the United States to target al-Qaeda branch, which is seen as the biggest threat
Hadi said in an interview with reporters and editors of the Washington Post in a hotel suite which is used in the capital "before the implementation of any process, they take approval from the President "says Hadi praised the level of precision that characterizes drones" The drones more technically sophisticated than the human mind. "
And enthusiasm helped Hadi to clarify how that since he came to chair the presidency in February, after a popular revolt ended the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which lasted 33 years , which consider him in Obama's administration officials as one of the strongest U.S. allies in the fight against terrorism .
In reference to the status of Hadi, was welcomed by President Obama on the sidelines of the United Nations in New York last week, also met group of prominent U.S. administration officials in Washington, Vice President Biden, and White House counsel to counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan and Oozyrh U.S. Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
The increased pace of U.S. strikes drone in Yemen over the past year, gaining control of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on the areas in the southern part of the country and continued to launch attacks on the United States ,according to U.S. officials their frustration to blow comes from Yemen, was aimed at aircraft this year.
The Joint Special Operations Command U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to the implementation of 33 raid in Yemen this year ,Compared with 10 strikes in 2011, according to what was said by the Long War Journal interested in raids launched by drones.
During the interview hinted Hadi to civilian casualties and raids missing their objectives at the beginning of the campaign of raids, which began in December 2009, but said that the United States and Yemen have carried out to take "various measures to avoid repeating the mistakes that have occurred in the past."
He also described with regard to joint operations facility is located near the capital Sanaa and serve as the backbone of intelligence operations being waged against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, also called a branch of the terrorist group in Yemen . Hadi said, "When you go to see how the operations center are step-by-step processes."
Al Qaeda has exploited in the Arabian Peninsula political chaos that swept Yemen last year, and took control of the areas in the southern provinces and has tightened its grip on several cities, such as Jaar, Zanzibar . Said Hadi restore the Yemeni army of the southern areas represents "the beginning of the complete defeat of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" and foreign fighters fled to countries such as Mali and Mauritania. .
The accused al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula plotting attacks on U.S. targets, including an attempt to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit during the Christmas celebrations in 2009 .Cleric killed US-born Anwar al-Awlaki, who claims he later became the organization's chief of operations, was killed in a drone strike last year.
Hadi stressed that the losses in Yemen, far outweigh the number of casualties suffered by the country in its war against al-Qaeda . He said that the country has seen dozens of bombings that have targeted oil companies that suspended projects in Yemen, and evaporated tourism and exacerbated the country's economic problems.
And launched unmanned aircraft of the U.S. Special Operations and which monitors the atmosphere of Yemen . From a base in Djibouti, the Horn of Africa, and the aircraft operations of the Central Intelligence Agency, it starts from the base of independent not publicly disclose its place, located in the Arabian Peninsula.
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