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  • U.S. backs Yemen, Russia arms it

    01/11/2010 8:17:01 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 5 replies · 331+ views
    Space War ^ | 1/11/2010 | UPI via Space War
    America may be doubling its security aid to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen to fight al-Qaida, but most of the country's weaponry is coming from Russia, China and former Soviet states in Eastern Europe, with Saudi Arabia providing the funds. According to the Inter Press Service, Yemen's armed forces are undergoing a major military modernization program worth an estimated $4 billion. That's a huge amount for a country whose economy is collapsing, running out of water as well as oil. Production has fallen from 450,000 barrels a day six years ago to barely 1809,000 a day now. Within...