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VICE News: Exclusive: How the UK Secretly Helped Direct Lethal US Drone Strikes in Yemen
For the past decade British intelligence has systematically co-operated with US and Yemeni agencies in the covert war against al-Qaeda in Yemen, a VICE News investigation can reveal.
Long characterized as a unilateral policy of the United States, VICE News has found that through the use of double agents, surveillance, and electronic tagging, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, commonly known as MI6) assisted in identifying and locating human targets for American drone strikes from 2010 onwards.
The covert war in Yemen has killed up to 1,651 people, including up to 261 civilians, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Many more have been injured.
"We had a targeting list with names that we could pursue," explained Stephen Seche, former US ambassador to Yemen. "It was very useful for both [Britain and America] to sit and help triangulate what we were hearing from our different sources."
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1 comment:
ISIS has been growing in territory for 2 years.
They have lost territory in Iraq and Syria, but they grow.
So is the British effort in pin prick or the straw?
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