US Diplomat: America Treats Yemen as a Saudi Possession

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A former US embassy diplomat in Saudi Arabia told Yemen Press Agency in an exclusive interview that the United States administration does not respect Yemen and Yemenis, but it treats Yemen as a Saudi possession instead.

Michael Springmann said that his government is supposed to seek improving relations with Yemen and its people.

"America is not treating Yemen as an independent state, like Japan or Germany. Rather, it is treating Yemen as a Saudi possession," Springmann said in the interview on Monday.

Springmann said that the US should stop its support for Saudi Arabia and respect the Yemeni people who is angry of these US actions.

"The US support of Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen and that US military action in Yemen or on its borders incurs the wrath of the Yemeni people. What country likes it population attacked and killed?" said the US diplomat and author Michael Springmann.

Asked why Trump did not adopt the assassination of Yemeni president Saleh Ali Al Sammad last month, though Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, accused him of doing that and held the United States responsible, Mr. Springmann said: "Trump is silent on the Reaper drone assassinating al-Sammad because it would too clearly show the connection of the US to murder, war crimes, and human rights violations."

He noted that the US government talks only of "support" for the Saudis and their illegal war against Yemen. "The US government talks only of refueling Saudi and other aircrafts, providing targeting information, or other intelligence, and not acting as a murderous country."

Michael Springmann has also said that "Barbara Bodine, the former US ambassador to Yemen has characterized the Saudis' actions as "murder, war crimes, and crimes against humanity."

Asked why the US deployed Green Berets to Saudi borders with Yemen, he said that it is because the US Patriot Missiles have failed to intercept Yemeni missiles, and this the reason why US stationed its special forces near borders with Yemen.

He concluded that his heart is with "the unfortunate people of Yemen, murdered and starved by my country, the United States of America."

Source: Yemen Press Agency, Edited by Website Team