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Saudi Arabia losing lots of money, arms in Yemen: Analyst

Saturday, 09 January 2016 4:54 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 09 January 2016 4:55 AM ]

Men walk past a building damaged during an airstrike by Saudi Arabia, in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, November 29, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV has interviewed Ali Al Ahmed, the director of the Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs, and Lawrence Korb, a former US assistant secretary of defense, to discuss Saudi Arabia’s use of banned cluster bombs against the Yemeni people.

Ahmed says, “Even the UN, which is sided with Saudi Arabia admitted that the targeting of civilian institutions has been done by the Saudi alliance supported by the United States and the United Kingdom.”

He added, however, that the UN Security Council has no problem with the relentless bombing of Yemen by Saudi Arabia.

Ahmed says the end of the Saudi aggression against the Yemeni people has not been “an American priority” for certain reasons. The US did not support a UN investigation into the Saudis’ war crimes, especially into the use of banned cluster bombs against civilians in Yemen, he says.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ahmed refers to how the war on Yemen is eroding the Saudi government. “This war is not only hurting Yemen and Yemeni civilians in particular, [it is] also hurting the Saudi monarchy, because the Saudi government is spending about a billion dollars a month and losing a lot of their cache of weapons dropping it on Yemen that might lead to their weakness and even collapse.”

Korb, for his part, says the Saudis “shouldn’t be targeting hospitals.” There is a dire “need for a ceasefire,” he says.

“There is no way that the Saudi-led coalition can prevail, they can’t win militarily; so it’s much better to have a political solution there that takes into account the desires of all of the people,” Korb says.

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