Testimonies and Cables Expose the Late Afash: How He Handed Yemen Over to Washington and Placed the Yemeni State Under American Guardianship

Testimonies and Cables Expose the Late Afash: How He Handed Yemen Over to Washington and Placed the Yemeni State Under American Guardianship

The subservience of the late Ali Afash to the U.S. administration was neither an allegation nor a political suspicion; it was a complete system of rule built on subordinating Yemen’s national decision-making to foreign dictates. The relationship was neither coordination nor alliance, but one of master and agent—Washington issuing commands, and Sana’a, under Afash’s rule, acting merely as an execution office for Pentagon and CIA demands: airstrik…