Though Washington is not involved directly in the operation, the White House has authorized “logistical and intelligence support.”

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(27.1.2015) Barack Obama bietet für seinen Antrittsbesuch bei Saudi-Arabiens neuem König Salman nahezu alles auf, was in der Sicherheitspolitik der Amerikaner Rang und Namen hat: Außenminister John Kerry, CIA-Chef John O. Brennan, General Lloyd J. Austin, Chef des US Central Command, das für den Nahen Osten und Zentralasien zuständig ist, sowie seine wichtigsten Berater für Sicherheit, Lisa Monaco und Susan Rice, begleiten den US-Präsidenten.

(26.2.2015) The 2001 AUMF, passed by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks, was intended to serve as the legal justification to fight the al Qaeda and Taliban threat in Afghanistan. The vagueness of its language has allowed two presidents to expand military operations into Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and most recently, airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, without additional approval from Congress.

(18.März) American military officials admitted to members of Congress that they have lost track of half a billion dollars worth military aid sent to Yemen.

(12.März) Obama sought to contrast his “democratic” (let Congress decide rather than the president) and time-limited approach to war making to the previous Bush administration’s request for blanket or unlimited authority to pursue terrorists everywhere. As expected, in the circus-like atmosphere that characterizes congressional debate, Republicans beat the war drums even louder – attacking Obama for limiting his war and thus future president’s unlimited war-making powers to just three years. But the media-promoted sound and fury attendant to the debate rapidly subsided when it was revealed that Obama’s purported self-imposed limitations were a fraud.

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„Ein sofortiges Ende der Rüstungsexporte nach Saudi-Arabien ist längst überfällig“, fordert sie. Die Bundesregierung müsse „spätestens jetzt erkennen, dass hier ein klarer Kurswechsel dringend notwendig ist“.

Diesen Kurswechsel fordert auch der Linken-Außenexperte Jan van Aken. „So schnell kann es gehen, dass deutsche Waffen in einer höchst fragilen Region zum Einsatz kommen“, sagt er.

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This investigation comes to the conclusion that the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan, i.e. a total of around 1.3 million. Not included in this figure are further war
zones such as Yemen. The figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts and decision makers are aware of and propagated by the media and major NGOs. And this is only a conservative estimate. The total num-
ber of deaths in the three countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely.

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Nach Angaben eines ranghohen US-Diplomaten lobte Außenminister John Kerry in einer Telefonkonferenz mit Ministern der beteiligten Golfstaaten die „Arbeit der Koalition“.