Saudi aggression to continue amid UN inaction: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, an Atlanta-based managing editor at Veterans Today, to have his take on Saudi Arabia’s military aggression against Yemen.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Mr. Dean, we are getting a lot of reports of civilian casualties out of Yemen, and Saudi Arabia just refused to heed UN Chief Ban Ki-moon’s request to stop the air attacks. What end can possibly justify these means?

Dean: Well, Saudi Arabia thinks they ... have got the US behind them, they have got the Arab League behind them, they have got tons of money and huge military superiority, so they’re basically sitting there to the UN saying what are you going to do about it? If you do not like what we are doing, what can you do?

So what they’re really posing here is not a negotiation, but they’re asking for the Houthis to literally surrender, which they are not going to do. So this is the classic thing where you present conditions that the other side cannot accept so that they want to pursue the bombing campaign.

We spent the afternoon working on the Sana’a attack, because we were able to debug, they said it was a Scud storage facility that was hit and we do not think that is true because the Scud fuel, for two reasons, the Scud fuel is Dimethylhydrazine, and if you have ever seen them go off when they are shot, they have a yellowish dirty brown vapor, that they have, so if that was a Scud storage facility, instead of a white big mushroom cloud, you would have had a big dirty orange-brown one, and then the other thing that didn’t make any sense, if it was a Scud storage facility, you would have had secondary explosions going on, anywhere from 30 minutes to 45 minutes as warheads and missiles went off and there was none of that.

So what we saw is a fingerprint, footprint, of a tactical nuclear weapon and we think that might have been a hardened command bunker that they wanted to destroy.

Press TV: Now Mr. Dean there have been multiple allegations percolating down from top human rights organizations that war crimes are taking place in Yemen by the hands of the Saudis, now will Saudi Arabia have to answer one day for what they are doing today?

Dean: Not if they can buy off everybody that could possibly be involved in prosecuting them, as happens in a lot of countries where rich powerful people do things and they can compromise the legislature or the justice department, through threats of violence on their part or they just buy them off.

So we are seeing now the combination of money, big money, a combination combined with big military power and allies, basically allows a nation, or a group of nations, to flood any international law that it wants to. So the public are ought to wake up that some of these institutions that we have are pretend institutions, the big nations use them when it is convenient to do so, and when they do not, they just tell them to go jump in a lake.

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