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Yemen National Security Agency - what motivated the change of leadership
[Yemen Post] Beyond the textual implementation of the GCC-brokered initiative regarding Yemen's change of leadership and departure of the former regime's men, Saudi newspaper Al-Shark argues Gen. Ammar Mohammed Saleh - nephew to deposed President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
- and Gen. Ali al-Ansi dismissal from their positions at Yemen National Security Agency hides Iran and the United States of America' struggle for control over Yemen.

According to security sources, Tehran would have managed to buy its way through Yemen NSA and therefore hold a certain level of influence on what information was being carried through to Washington.

As 2011 unfolded and America slowly was seen shifting its support from the former regime to the popular uprising, strong of the knowledge there was no stopping the Arab Spring movement - as seen in Tunisia and Egypt - Washington accused ex-President-for-Life Saleh
... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence...
and his loyalists of withholding sensitive informations regarding al-Qaeda and Tehran's advances - financial and military support of the Houthis in Yemen northern provinces -

Having created Yemen NSA for the sole purpose of gaining an intelligence footing in the country, Washington was determined to retain its control, even if it meant letting go of its former partners and allies, Gen. Ammar Saleh and Gen. Ali al-Ansi.

May 2012 suicide kaboom at the heart of the capital, Sana'a and NSA sheer lack of oversight confirmed the belief a new leadership was needed, fastening in one swift move former President Saleh's demise as he ended losing the cornerstone of his power-portfolio.

With Iran and the U.S more and more taking their "opposition" out in the open Yemen is fast turning into a proxy for their war of influence in the region.

Posted by: Fred 2013-01-23
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