2.09.2015 Military Report of Novorossia

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“The Obama administration needs urgently to explain what the U.S.’s exact role in Saudi Arabia’s indiscriminate bombing campaign is,” said Cori Crider, strategic director at the international legal group Reprieve. “It very much looks like there is a case to answer here — not just for the Saudis, but for any Western agencies who are standing behind them. International law shuns the intentional targeting of civilians in war — and in the United States it is a serious federal crime.”

Meanwhile, the U.S.-backed bombing campaign continues into its sixth month and Yemen’s largely hidden war endures; its civilians struggle to survive, with little influence over their fate. “We don’t know when or where death will come, where the next bullet or bomb will drop,” said Itisam, staring at a picture of her dead son’s gray, dismembered body wedged under the undercarriage of a bus. “Only God knows.”

Todays must read:Yemen’s Hidden War: How the Saudi-Led Coalition Is Killing Civilians –
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/01/yemen-hidden-war-saudi-coalition-killing-civilians/

Benfica -yes.

And this is being kept out of the Anglophone news too – US military advisers killed in the KSA:

http://en.alalam.ir/news/1734065