Current Events > American mercenaries carry out assassinations for UAE in Yemen

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/aramroston/mercenaries-assassination-us-yemen-uae-spear-golan-dahlan

Cradling an AK-47 and sucking a lollipop, the former American Green Beret bumped along in the back of an armored SUV as it wound through the darkened streets of Aden. Two other commandos on the mission were former Navy SEALs. As elite US special operations fighters, they had years of specialized training by the US military to protect America. But now they were working for a different master: a private US company that had been hired by the United Arab Emirates, a tiny desert monarchy on the Persian Gulf.

On that night, December 29, 2015, their job was to carry out an assassination.

Their armed attack, described to BuzzFeed News by two of its participants and corroborated by drone surveillance footage, was the first operation in a startling for-profit venture. For months in war-torn Yemen, some of Americas most highly trained soldiers worked on a mercenary mission of murky legality to kill prominent clerics and Islamist political figures.

Their target that night: Anssaf Ali Mayo, the local leader of the Islamist political party Al-Islah. The UAE considers Al-Islah to be the Yemeni branch of the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood, which the UAE calls a terrorist organization. Many experts insist that Al-Islah, one of whose members won the Nobel Peace Prize, is no terror group. They say it's a legitimate political party that threatens the UAE not through violence but by speaking out against its ambitions in Yemen.
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The operation against Mayo which was reported at the time but until now was not known to have been carried out by American mercenaries marked a pivot point in the war in Yemen, a brutal conflict that has seen children starved, villages bombed, and epidemics of cholera roll through the civilian population. The bombing was the first salvo in a string of unsolved assassinations that killed more than two dozen of the groups leaders.

The company that hired the soldiers and carried out the attack is Spear Operations Group, incorporated in Delaware and founded by Abraham Golan, a charismatic Hungarian Israeli security contractor who lives outside of Pittsburgh. He led the teams strike against Mayo.

There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen, he told BuzzFeed News. I was running it. We did it. It was sanctioned by the UAE within the coalition.

The UAE and Saudi Arabia lead an alliance of nine countries in Yemen, fighting what is largely a proxy war against Iran. The US is helping the Saudi-UAE side by providing weapons, intelligence, and other support.
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The revelations that a Middle East monarchy hired Americans to carry out assassinations comes at a moment when the world is focused on the alleged murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia, an autocratic regime that has close ties to both the US and the UAE. (The Saudi Embassy in the US did not respond to a request for comment. Riyadh has denied it killed Khashoggi, though news reports suggest it is considering blaming his death on a botched interrogation.)

Golan said that during his companys months-long engagement in Yemen, his team was responsible for a number of the wars high-profile assassinations, though he declined to specify which ones. He argued that the US needs an assassination program similar to the model he deployed. I just want there to be a debate, he said. Maybe Im a monster. Maybe I should be in jail. Maybe Im a bad guy. But Im right.
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Experts said it is almost inconceivable that the United States would not have known that the UAE whose military the US has trained and armed at virtually every level had hired an American company staffed by American veterans to conduct an assassination program in a war it closely monitors.

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Obama was the real war criminal
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We will forsake our countries...we will leave our motherlands behind us and become one with this earth. We have no nation, no philosophy, no ideology. We go where we're needed, fighting not for country, not for government, but for ourselves. We need no reason to fight. We fight because we are needed. We will be the deterrent for those with no other recourse. We are soldiers without borders, our purpose defined by the era we live in. We will sometimes have to sell ourselves and services. If the times demand it, we'll be revolutionaries, criminals, terrorists. And yes, we may all be headed straight to hell. But what better place for us than this? Its our only home. Our heaven and our hell. This is Outer Heaven.

I just wanted to post that okay
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Fucking gross
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You do know that the definition of Mercenary is a Soldier for hire.

They'll work for whomever pays top dollar.
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Let me guess, Erik Prince's goons?
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Antifar posted...

The operation against Mayo

Damn this mayonnaise hate is getting out of hand
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I guess that means it's ok for Saudi Arabia to kill journalists.

I can only imagine a criminal defense lawyer in a murder case saying to the judge "The mexican cartels kill thousands of people!"
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slimfizzle2 posted...

Antifar posted...

The operation against Mayo

Damn this mayonnaise hate is getting out of hand

We will not be silenced. Mayo must be destroyed.
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soylentgreen posted...

Obama was the real war criminal

It's literally not a matter of "Obama's the real criminal" or "Trump's the real criminal" or "Bush is the real criminal".

This kind of shit has been going on for decades, under many presidents, from both sides. Maybe it's just that American politicians in general are shit.
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soylentgreen posted...

Obama was the real war criminal

No, Obama is benevolent and innocent....this crap is alex jones bullshit
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It sounds like these were some top tier guys. I don't blame the UAE for hiring them. Hopefully they were only being used to go after actual jihadists. The UAE is probably the best country in the region in terms of ethics, but who knows what they might be doing behind the scenes.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

You do know that the definition of Mercenary is a Soldier for hire.

They'll work for whomever pays top dollar.

Wrong, they can still choose not to work for specific clients. It's quite common actually. They don't want to go to jail or end up dead, you know.
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buzzfeed

i gues that whats passes for fake news for the masses thesedays

hotcegaI posted...

buzzfeed

i gues that whats passes for fake news for the masses thesedays

This stuff is actually legit. From what I understand, the guy who ran the company decided to give all this info to BuzzFeed for some reason. I guess he wants to make a name for himself.
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its buzzfeed tho
they spin stories to be based on facts

if the guy wanted it out there he'd have gone to an actual news outlet and not 'make stuff up form facts.com''

DarkTransient posted...

soylentgreen posted...

Obama was the real war criminal

It's literally not a matter of "Obama's the real criminal" or "Trump's the real criminal" or "Bush is the real criminal".

This kind of shit has been going on for decades, under many presidents, from both sides. Maybe it's just that American politicians in general are shit.

These were mercenaries, not working for our government.

Your point stands though. America has been doing gross things politically forever. It sucks.
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But the US would never sanction or go against any of these countries no matter what they do. In the meantime, some in this administration would love to bomb Iran and plot an assassination on Venezuela's leader.
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JuanCarlos1 posted...

But the US would never sanction or go against any of these countries no matter what they do. In the meantime, some in this administration would love to bomb Iran and plot an assassination on Venezuela's leader.

It's not only this administration. Not even close. It's not even only those in the party that leads this administration. (And the keyword here is "only", I'm not in any way implying the current administration or the party in general aren't like that.)
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Who cares? Stupid map anyways
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DarkTransient posted...

JuanCarlos1 posted...

But the US would never sanction or go against any of these countries no matter what they do. In the meantime, some in this administration would love to bomb Iran and plot an assassination on Venezuela's leader.

It's not only this administration. Not even close. It's not even only those in the party that leads this administration. (And the keyword here is "only", I'm not in any way implying the current administration or the party in general aren't like that.)

Let me guess, it's the deep state?
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Sativa_Rose posted...

DarkTransient posted...

JuanCarlos1 posted...

But the US would never sanction or go against any of these countries no matter what they do. In the meantime, some in this administration would love to bomb Iran and plot an assassination on Venezuela's leader.

It's not only this administration. Not even close. It's not even only those in the party that leads this administration. (And the keyword here is "only", I'm not in any way implying the current administration or the party in general aren't like that.)

Let me guess, it's the deep state?

I mean, I don't really know, beyond that both major parties have done a lot of really, really dodgy shit, and continue to do so whenever they're in power. Whether that's someone else pulling the strings, or just that both sides are full of shitty people, or even that it's actually completely justified and we're just not being told the actual reasons, fucked if I know.
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First sentence was probably wrong.

Was more likely an AKM.

Didnt even read after that.

Dumbasses.
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again

Mercenaries gonna mercenary.
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Antifar posted...

founded by Abraham Golan

Buddy of mine knows this guy. The guys kid plays hockey and my buddy coaches the kid.

Dude came in and said: hey this is the last time my kid will be here for a while and you probably won't see me again for a while.
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BlingBling22947 posted...

First sentence was probably wrong.

Was more likely an AKM.

Didnt even read after that.

Dumbasses.

It's not a cartoon mom, it's called anime and it's art
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Shame they didn't come back in bodybags.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

You do know that the definition of Mercenary is a Soldier for hire.

They'll work for whomever pays top dollar.

This. it looks bad they are Americans but money transcends national boundaries and morality of all races and nationalities. If it wasn't those Americans it could have been any other citizens of any other country. I have no idea about international law for something like this so I can't speak on what should happen to them, but if they broke laws that pertain to political assassinations then by all means hold them accountable
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Is this sanctioned by America or is it Americans going off and doing their own thing?
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Is this sanctioned by America or is it Americans going off and doing their own thing?

Mercenaries. Pretty sure they did it for the money
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