This December 17 is the first anniversary of the vicious US attack on Yemen that

illegally and criminally employed the use of cluster munitions against a group of
local Yemeni civilians. The cluster bomblets were delivered using a subsonic cruise
missile that violated Yemeni airspace and the vicious attack mercilessly wiped out fifty
helpless local inhabitants. This kind of murderous attack should have been investigated
by the local authorities and the international community, but till today no such action has
been taken, not even now, twelve months later.

On December 17 2009, the US military stationed south of the Arabian peninsula fired
a Tomahawk missile at a rural community called Al-Maajala in the Abyan province of
Yemen. The target was said to be a local al-Qaeda man named al-Raymi (al Rimi) but
he was not present in Al-Maajala on the day of the attack. He thus escaped, but not a
group of fifty Yemeni civilians, most of whom were women and children. The attack
clearly showed that the US regarded foreign civilians as legitimate military targets and
very firmly put to rest any still remaining ideas that the US is a law-abiding and civilised
nation. The US is a nation full of cold-hearted killers and bloodthirsty slayers. The
vicious attack that claimed the lives of fifty civilians came just days after President
Barack Obama was ‘awarded’ the Peace Prize and just a little bit before the first batch
of extra US troops (under the ‘surge’ program) was despatched to Afghanistan to raise
the level of combat violence in Kabul. Clearly, killing people and preserving ‘peace’
always go hand in hand as far as the US is concerned. The more urgent the peace, the
greater the killing. The killing of people who are non-US citizens, that is. What evil crap.

Al-Qaeda was already active in Yemen during the Bush years, and the US CIA had been
following their growth, but it was the Obama administration which gave approval for the
vicious strike against the civilians in Yemen. Thus today’s growing violence in Yemen,
although initially Bush’s headache, is now very clearly Obama’s war. The killings of
Yemeni civilians by the US military have elicited tough promises of revenge by the local
tribal leaders. Their immediate target is the local authorities which is now regarded as
blindly pro-US. This will surely act as a magnet to draw in foreign operatives and so the
vicious US attack which was approved by Obama, can be viewed as a complete failure.
The only notable success was the BIG civilian casualty list, or ‘body count’. So much for
‘peace’. US officials afterwards claimed that the attack was carried out specifically at the
request of the Yemeni authorities, but killing people using cluster munitions is a wholly
and thoroughly illegal act and a very unforgivable one, the more so when the intended
target was very much no-where around. The US military and the very notorious US CIA,
could not care who they had just very mercilessly eliminated. Their evil dirty mission
was considered accomplished as long as there was (human) blood spilled.

It can surely be argued that the December 17 2009 vicious attack was an act of war crime
authorised by no less than a Peace Prize recipient who happens to be the leader (albeit
puppet leader) of the ‘oldest’ democracy in the world. We certainly live in a world ruled
by falsehoods and double standards where killing innocent people is alright as long as the
killing act is carried out by forces representing ‘oldest’ democracy or democracies. The
young democracies and the alternative democracies are clearly not eligible for such
exemption ! ! ! ! It is very surely a most unimaginably vile hypocrisy of the worst kind.