Secret Calls, Document Reveal Relation Between Saleh and USA

Almasirah obtained confidential documents and two phone calls between former Yemeni President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the director of the American CIA agency, revealing American ambitions in Yemen and the involvement of the former regime in the treason of the country.

Almasirah indicated that the documents and the first private call between President Saleh and former CIA director, George Tenet, revealed American ambitions in Yemen and the relationship of dependency between the former regime and the United States.

The call which was published by the Moral Guidance Department included an acknowledgment of the direct relationship between the American intelligence and the takfiri individuals called “Al Qaeda” and the involvement of the former regime in this betrayal. As well as an acknowledgment from the top of the hierarchy of the American intelligence apparatus CIA of their direct relationship with leaders of the Takfiri elements called “Al Qaeda”.

The call also included an American insistence on the release of one of the intelligence agents detained in the Political Security prison in the capital, Sana’a, following the bombing of the USS Cole. Regarding the second call, Almasirah said that the call was between Saleh and Tenet, on the same day, informing him of his agreement to release the arrested individual in Sana’a and hand him over to the Americans.

The Moral Guidance Department revealed a document issued by the US State Department on “some important affairs in Yemen” for the year 1998. It said that one of the US State Department offices includes a report on the geographical, demographic and economic details of Yemen, in addition to an overview of the foreign military presence in Yemen.

The US State Department document talks about the reactivation of Jewish synagogues and Christian churches, and the role of American forces in Aden in protecting members of the Jewish community in Sa’adah and Sana’a. It also identifies a number of places for selling alcoholic drinks in Sana’a and Aden, and talks about entities that manufacture “beer” from local sources.

A report of a US State Department office issued on May 30, 1998, talks about the establishment of an American naval base for the “Marines” forces in the Buraiqah area in Aden governorate. It talks about equipping the naval base in Buraiqah for the presence of reconnaissance, fighter, bomber aircraft, an aircraft carrier, some submarines and naval military pieces, and it also includes an agreement signed by General, Anthony Zinni, commander of the US Central Forces in the Middle East and the Yemeni government in May 1998 on services. The naval base in Buraiqah.

The report speaks about a naval base in Aden that will work to equip a military port to provide US naval units with fuel and other services, and will also work to equip anchorage for US naval vessels that serve the US aircraft carrier operating in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

The Moral Guidance Department indicated that the report of a US State Department office says that “the US forces’ base in Aden will include stores of fuel and ammunition, and warehouses for nuclear and chemical weapons and waste. This base is also a military supply base for the US forces in the Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Horn African and Red Sea.”

The Deputy Head of the Security and Intelligence Service, Major General Abdulqader Al-Shami, confirmed that the call between the director of the “CIA” and Saleh was to release the takfiri “Anwar Al-Awlaqi,” the leader in Al-Qaeda, who has dual Yemeni and American nationalities.

Al-Shami explained to Almasirah that Anwar Al-Awlaqi is one of the figures associated with American intelligence. He pointed out that the Americans used to train their individuals in Yemen and send them abroad to carry out operations for them, and then affix the accusation to Yemen as an excuse to come under the cover of fighting those individuals. He said that the Americans, after the end of the mission of Anwar Al-Awlaqi, liquidated him in Al-Jawf governorate in 2011.

Quoted from al-Masirah Website.