Saudis child soldiers: On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

[Denizen]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
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The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

 

[sparky]

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

For it until your against it right ?

 

[pismoe]

14 to 17 seems to be young MEN to me and they took jobs where the could make some money . I just quickly glanced through the article but i'm glad that I didn't see 3 year olds shooting AK Rifles and cutting throats Denizen !!

 

[Sunni Man]

Saudi Arabia is a valuable ally that all loyal and patriotic Americans should be happy to support. ...

 

[sparky]

14 to 17 seems to be young MEN to me and they took jobs where the could make some money

Sure.....doubtless Mom & Pop gave permission to skip school and all......~S~

 

[pismoe]

over there school would probably be some ' madrassa' run by some muslim 'imam' doing chants from the 'koran' Sparky .

 

[Sunni Man]

14 to 17 seems to be young MEN to me and they took jobs where the could make some money

Sure.....doubtless Mom & Pop gave permission to skip school and all......~S~

During WWll, Korean war, and the Vietnam war, American teenagers could join the Army at 17 and be sent to fight.

Heck, during the American civil war many soldiers on both sides were aged 14 to 17

But let's point fingers at other countries and demonize them for doing the same thing. ...

 

[eagle1462010]

Out of the frying pan and into the fire............Leaving from Sudan in hopes of having it better in another desert. Both places suck........both places lack water and have massive famine.............and both have massive disease problems as a result.

The young teens would rather fight so they don't starve............which is the lesser of evils to them. Saudi Arabia has over history paid others to do their fighting for them.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

 

[pismoe]

14 to 17 seems to be young MEN to me and they took jobs where the could make some money

Sure.....doubtless Mom & Pop gave permission to skip school and all......~S~

During the Vietnam war American teenagers could join the Army at 17 and be sent to fight.

But let's point fingers at other countries and demonize them for doing the same thing. ...

---------------------------- AGREE , and I have no problem with so called child soldiers . As far as I am concerned they are simply young men at 14 - 17 years old .

 

[eagle1462010]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

They are Muslim............and many will go to the dark side of Islam..........We've been down this path before and History repeats itself time and time again.

In Somalia we went to SAVE THEM..........but they would rather die from starvation than embrace our help........Firing on our forces and UN forces whose only purpose was to protect food and medical supplies to save lives.............Ending in a fight because those with the guns get the food over there..........it's just the way it is...........we left.........and they went back to starving because they BIT THE HAND THAT WAS FEEDING THEM.

 

[Denizen]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

The Saudis did come and live among their ilk, American conservatives. Then they took down the WTC while American conservatives obstructed and then corrupted investigations.

 

[sparky]

 

[Denizen]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

They are Muslim............and many will go to the dark side of Islam..........We've been down this path before and History repeats itself time and time again.

In Somalia we went to SAVE THEM..........but they would rather die from starvation than embrace our help........Firing on our forces and UN forces whose only purpose was to protect food and medical supplies to save lives.............Ending in a fight because those with the guns get the food over there..........it's just the way it is...........we left.........and they went back to starving because they BIT THE HAND THAT WAS FEEDING THEM.

Kushner and Trump are Muslim?

That figures, those two grifters would do anything for a buck.

 

[eagle1462010]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
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The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

The Saudis did come and live among their ilk, American conservatives. Then they took down the WTC while American conservatives obstructed and then corrupted investigations.

OBL was disavowed...........does that mean others there in Saudi Arabia don't like us..........not at all.........You will find the Dark Side of Islam in every country on the planet from Islam............the same can be said of almost all of them................

If it wasn't for oil............the middle east would be the same as Africa today...........

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

14 to 17 seems to be young MEN to me and they took jobs where the could make some money

Sure.....doubtless Mom & Pop gave permission to skip school and all......~S~

During WWll, Korean war, and the Vietnam war, American teenagers could join the Army at 17 and be sent to fight.

Heck, during the American civil war many soldiers on both sides were aged 14 to 17

But let's point fingers at other countries and demonize them for doing the same thing. ...

You can still join the Army at 17.

 

[eagle1462010]

This is a disgrace that a country like Saudi Arabia is hiring child soldiers from Darfur to fight the Saudi's dirty war in Yemen because the Saudis are cowards.

The First Scumbag Jared Kushner is up to his scrawny neck in this as are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Mike Pompeo and all those others in the intelligence knowledge loop.

Kushner has been driving the Donald Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia because Kushner and Donald Trump stand to make money from the Saudi connection both during and after Trump's tenure.

The Trump administration is demonstrated as more an more corrupt every day.

No moral, ethical country should ally itself to the Saudis.

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur

By David D. Kirkpatrick
Dec. 28, 2018

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.

Hager, 14 at the time, could not find Yemen on a map, and his mother was appalled. He had survived one horrific civil war — how could his parents toss him into another? But the family overruled her.
“Families know that the only way their lives will change is if their sons join the war and bring them back money,” Hager said in an interview last week in the capital, Khartoum, a few days after his 16th birthday.
ADVERTISEMENT
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. An intermittent blockade by the Saudis and their partners in the United Arab Emirates has pushed as many as 12 million people to the brink of starvation, killing some 85,000 children, according to aid groups.
Led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudis say they are battling to rescue Yemen from a hostile faction backed by Iran. But to do it, the Saudis have used their vast oil wealth to outsource the war, mainly by hiring what Sudanese soldiers say are tens of thousands of desperate survivors of the conflict in Darfur to fight, many of them children.

At any time for nearly four years as many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen in tandem with the local militia aligned with the Saudis, according to several Sudanese fighters who have returned and Sudanese lawmakers who are attempting to track it. Hundreds, at least, have died there.
Almost all the Sudanese fighters appear to come from the battle-scarred and impoverished region of Darfur, where some 300,000 people were killed and 1.2 million displaced during a dozen years of conflict over diminishing arable land and other scarce resources.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed. They were blamed for the systematic rape of women and girls, indiscriminate killing and other war crimes during Darfur’s conflict, and veterans involved in those horrors are now leading their deployment to Yemen — albeit in a more formal and structured campaign.

Some families are so eager for the money that they bribe militia officers to let their sons go fight. Many are ages 14 to 17. In interviews, five fighters who have returned from Yemen and another about to depart said that children made up at least 20 percent of their units. Two said children were more than 40 percent.
To keep a safe distance from the battle lines, their Saudi or Emirati overseers commanded the Sudanese fighters almost exclusively by remote control, directing them to attack or retreat through radio headsets and GPS systems provided to the Sudanese officers in charge of each unit, the fighters all said.

As many as 14,000 Sudanese militiamen have been fighting in Yemen at any given time for nearly four years. Hundreds, at least, have died.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times
“The Saudis told us what to do through the telephones and devices,” said Mohamed Suleiman al-Fadil, a 28-year-old member of the Bani Hussein tribe who returned from Yemen at the end of last year. “They never fought with us.”

“The Saudis would give us a phone call and then pull back,” agreed Ahmed, 25, a member of the Awlad Zeid tribe who fought near Hudaydah this year and who did not want his full name published for fear of government retaliation. “They treat the Sudanese like their firewood.”

A few thousand Emiratis are based around the port of Aden. But the rest of the coalition the Saudis and Emiratis have assembled is united mainly by dependence on their financial aid.

The Pakistani military, despite a parliamentary vote blocking its participation, has quietly dispatched 1,000 soldiers to bolster Saudi forces inside the kingdom. Jordan has deployed jets and military advisers. Both governments rely heavily on aid from the Gulf monarchies. (A report by a United Nations panel suggested Eritrea may have sent about 400 troops as well.)

But in Sudan, which has played a far larger role, the Saudi money appears to flow directly to the fighters — or mercenaries, as critics call them. It benefits the economy only indirectly. ...

You know what is really bad? Obama wanted people like this to come to America and live among US. But, you had your head up your ass and looked the other way...Shame on you , you worthless piece of shit.

They are Muslim............and many will go to the dark side of Islam..........We've been down this path before and History repeats itself time and time again.

In Somalia we went to SAVE THEM..........but they would rather die from starvation than embrace our help........Firing on our forces and UN forces whose only purpose was to protect food and medical supplies to save lives.............Ending in a fight because those with the guns get the food over there..........it's just the way it is...........we left.........and they went back to starving because they BIT THE HAND THAT WAS FEEDING THEM.

Kushner and Trump are Muslim?

That figures, those two grifters would do anything for a buck.

LOL

You know what I meant..............this is nothing new.......they are always fighting there........Yemen has had multiple wars and famine........we watch football..........they kill each other..............Welcome to the Middle East.

 

[Sunni Man]

In Somalia we went to SAVE THEM..........but they would rather die from starvation than embrace our help........Firing on our forces and UN forces whose only purpose was to protect food and medical supplies to save lives.............Ending in a fight because those with the guns get the food over there..........it's just the way it is...........we left.........and they went back to starving because they BIT THE HAND THAT WAS FEEDING THEM.

The Somali people were extremely thankful in the beginning that American food supplies were being distributed by our military to the starving people.

But over time, due to misguided mission creep, our military started getting involved with internal Somali political problems, which resulted in innocent civilians being killed.

And that's when the Somali people turned against us. ...

 

[pismoe]

and 14 to 17 probably make the best Soldiers , murderers , killers , warriors or Soldiers anyway . Probably lots of 11 or 12 year olds that are also pretty good .