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

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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.
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.

Intelligent people don't associate being killed with being saved.

The USA and it's allies long ago abandoned Africa for anything but arms sales and combat experience.

Same applies to South America.

With Trump in command Africa and South America are being further isolated because Trump and Kushner don't see any easy buck there for their personal wealth..
Aside from invading and outright seizing control I'm not sure
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. ...
Muslims live to kill each other and everybody they disagree with... Just the facts
They also are culturably amenable to slavery and pedophilia.
Just like democrats.
 
Down the Road the Saudi's will pay for bringing Sudan fighters to Yemen ..........For temporary gain they will pay a heavy price in the future..........Just like always......

They would be better off to stop hiring Mercs and do the fighting themselves............in Yemen...........They will abandon the teenage fighters after the temporary gains are made.................Those teens will remember down the road as adults how after being used as Cannon Fodder in Yemen that Saudi's are not their friends and will turn on them............After training and arming them...........

Stupidity in motion in the Middle East yet again.
 
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. ...

Like every Islamic shithole doesn’t abuse children? It’s a religion and culture created by the pedophile false prophet.

It just cracks me up the sudden and very selective outrage by the Marxists.
 
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. ...


Why is this America's problem? Are we the world's policeman?

The USA is giving Saudis political cover in the UN. That's complicity.
 
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. ...

Like every Islamic shithole doesn’t abuse children? It’s a religion and culture created by the pedophile false prophet.

It just cracks me up the sudden and very selective outrage by the Marxists.

Donald Trump is a supporter of child abusers?
 
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. ...


Why is this America's problem? Are we the world's policeman?

The USA is giving Saudis political cover in the UN. That's complicity.


The UN?! lol!!! You will always find some bullshit reason to blame America first, won't you?


What do you imagine would happen if we did not "provide political cover"?
 
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. ...

Like every Islamic shithole doesn’t abuse children? It’s a religion and culture created by the pedophile false prophet.

It just cracks me up the sudden and very selective outrage by the Marxists.

Donald Trump is a supporter of child abusers?


He made a point. YOu pretended to be too stupid to understand it.


That says a lot about the confidence you have in your own position.
 
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. ...


Why is this America's problem? Are we the world's policeman?

The USA is giving Saudis political cover in the UN. That's complicity.


The UN?! lol!!! You will always find some bullshit reason to blame America first, won't you?


What do you imagine would happen if we did not "provide political cover"?

The Saudis would lose.
 
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. ...

Like every Islamic shithole doesn’t abuse children? It’s a religion and culture created by the pedophile false prophet.

It just cracks me up the sudden and very selective outrage by the Marxists.

Donald Trump is a supporter of child abusers?


He made a point. YOu pretended to be too stupid to understand it.


That says a lot about the confidence you have in your own position.

You evidently don't need to pretend to be stupid.
 
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. ...


what else is new------the war in Yemen is not really YEMENI----it is a
SUNNI VS SHIITE thing-------read that----arab muslims vs Iranian
muslims-------and BOTH SIDES ARE SENDING IN MERCENARIES
 
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. ...


Why is this America's problem? Are we the world's policeman?

The USA is giving Saudis political cover in the UN. That's complicity.


The UN?! lol!!! You will always find some bullshit reason to blame America first, won't you?


What do you imagine would happen if we did not "provide political cover"?

The Saudis would lose.

Lose what?
 
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. ...
Never blame Saudi Arabia.
 
blame Saudi for what----------sending mercenaries to fight the Iranian
mercenaries in Yemen?. Shiite/sunni shit does stink
 
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.

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...........

Christianity also has a dark side.

OBL was a tool of the USA in acts of terrorism against the Russians and Afghanis in the 1980s.

OBL was never diavowed by American Institutions.
Terrorism.............LOL........Russia was there for the land.........and it was their Vietnam...........we supported all the groups there at the time........repaying them for arming the N. Vietnamese..........in Vietnam............They were there to conquer and take the place..........

The Northern Alliance was part of that same group we helped............they didn't turn to the Dark Side of Islam...........OBL did and his group............

OBL was never disavowed........which dang Fantasy Island books have you been reading.
 
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
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...........

Christianity also has a dark side.

OBL was a tool of the USA in acts of terrorism against the Russians and Afghanis in the 1980s.

OBL was never diavowed by American Institutions.
Terrorism.............LOL........Russia was there for the land.........and it was their Vietnam...........we supported all the groups there at the time........repaying them for arming the N. Vietnamese..........in Vietnam............They were there to conquer and take the place..........

The Northern Alliance was part of that same group we helped............they didn't turn to the Dark Side of Islam...........OBL did and his group............

OBL was never disavowed........which dang Fantasy Island books have you been reading.

OBL was murdered because the Pentagon did not want a public trial where their collusion with OBL in the Afghan war against Russia would be revealed.
 
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. ...


And we partner with them, the Saudis.
 
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
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...........

Christianity also has a dark side.

OBL was a tool of the USA in acts of terrorism against the Russians and Afghanis in the 1980s.

OBL was never diavowed by American Institutions.
Terrorism.............LOL........Russia was there for the land.........and it was their Vietnam...........we supported all the groups there at the time........repaying them for arming the N. Vietnamese..........in Vietnam............They were there to conquer and take the place..........

The Northern Alliance was part of that same group we helped............they didn't turn to the Dark Side of Islam...........OBL did and his group............

OBL was never disavowed........which dang Fantasy Island books have you been reading.

Disavowing once the partnership has soured or is no longer useful is what exceptional nations like ours do routinely. Shall we take a look at a partial listing of who we've partnered with as of late?

Osama
Saddam
al Qaida
al Nusra
ISIS
The genocidal ethnic cleansing Israelis
The radical Wahabi Islamist public square beheading journalist liquifying Saudis
NeoNazis in Ukraine

Afghanistan is Russia's Vietnam yet we've been there damn near 2 decades and the Pentagon cannot account for $21T it disappeared between 1998-2015 while our infrastructure crumbles and public water supplies are poisoned sometimes from neglect and other times intentionally?
 
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...........

Christianity also has a dark side.

OBL was a tool of the USA in acts of terrorism against the Russians and Afghanis in the 1980s.

OBL was never diavowed by American Institutions.
Terrorism.............LOL........Russia was there for the land.........and it was their Vietnam...........we supported all the groups there at the time........repaying them for arming the N. Vietnamese..........in Vietnam............They were there to conquer and take the place..........

The Northern Alliance was part of that same group we helped............they didn't turn to the Dark Side of Islam...........OBL did and his group............

OBL was never disavowed........which dang Fantasy Island books have you been reading.

Disavowing once the partnership has soured or is no longer useful is what exceptional nations like ours do routinely. Shall we take a look at a partial listing of who we've partnered with as of late?

Osama
Saddam
al Qaida
al Nusra
ISIS
The genocidal ethnic cleansing Israelis
The radical Wahabi Islamist public square beheading journalist liquifying Saudis
NeoNazis in Ukraine

Afghanistan is Russia's Vietnam yet we've been there damn near 2 decades and the Pentagon cannot account for $21T it disappeared between 1998-2015 while our infrastructure crumbles and public water supplies are poisoned sometimes from neglect and other times intentionally?
Our policy has not always been correct...........

Who's policy was it to back the FSA and Turkish Rebels which would include al Nusra and even al Quida.......Hell they even fought with ISIS and armed ISIS.............to topple Assad................hmmm

Which President's policy was that..........Was recent but not now. LOL
 
The young recruits are only children because Democrats consider anyone 26 and under a child.
 

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