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Western news media scarcely report on the conflict in Yemen, let alone the heavy deployment of Western mercenaries in the fighting there. In the occasional Western report on Al-Qaeda and related terror groups in Yemen, it is usually in the context of intermittent drone strikes carried out by the US, or with the narrative that these militants are "taking advantage" of the chaos "to expand" their presence in the Arabian Peninsula, as reported here by the Washington Post.
This bifurcated Western media view of Yemen belies a more accurate and meaningful perspective, which is that the US-backed Saudi bombing campaign is actually coordinated with an on-the-ground military force that comprises regular troops, private security firms and Al-Qaeda type mercenaries redeployed from Syria.
There can be little doubt in Syria - despite Western denials - that the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)) jihadists and related Al-Qaeda brigades in Jabhat al-Nusra, Jaish al-Fateh, Ahrar ash-Sham and so on, have been infiltrated, weaponized and deployed for the objective of regime-change by the US and its allies. If that is true for Syria, then it is also true for Yemen. Indeed, the covert connection becomes even more apparent in Yemen.
Comment: How many stories have we read now about private mercenaries being on the payroll of Washington, London, Riyadh, etc.?? But let's face it, these guns for hire (just like the mafia's 'button men') fulfill the Western geopolitical drive for head-chopping innocents, terrorizing innocents, destroying the homes schools and hospitals of innocents, and the list goes on. Where else can an an Empire or its vassal state get such premium quality barbarity and psychopathic service?? They need the creme de la creme!