Image of the UAE by Research Gate
A couple of months ago whilst watching the news on the genocide of innocent civilians of Gaza and the illegally occupied West Bank, I came across a documentary about a mercenary group, Spear, which the UAE hired/hires to kill targets in Yemen. WHY?
Greed and power. When enough is never enough.
After I published this post and uploaded it on my Facebook page, I added this:
The Palestinians continue to be slaughtered by the Zionist regime and yet all their ‘Arab brothers’ stand by and watch, in cahoots with Israel. Most probably because there is nothing for them to gain from the Palestinians. There is no excuse. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
And then I came across the name, Spear Operations Group, a group of paid killers, who did and still do the UAE’s ‘dirty’ work for them. The governments of the UAE countries pretend to be so civilised and sophisticated which couldn’t be further from the truth. Dubai is a safe haven for gangsters, money launderers, terrorists, and thieves (take the Guptas as an example), murderers, and many other dangerous and not so dangerous people.
From Reuters:
‘After several Arab-Israeli wars, Egypt was the first Arab state to recognize Israel diplomatically in 1979 with the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. It was followed by Jordan with the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty in 1994. In 2020, four more Arab states (the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan) normalized relations’.
https://reprieve.org/uk/2020/02/19/yemeni-activist-huda-al-sarari-wins-global-human-rights-award/
Huda al-Sarari was one of the many targets. Instead her teenage son Mohsen was assassinated.
From Wikipedia:
Spear Operations Group is a US private military company that was hired by the United Arab Emirates to carry out operations in Yemen to support the Emirati intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. It was founded by Abraham Golan, a Hungarian-Israeli security contractor.[1]
The company was approached by a representative of the United Arab Emirates government[2] to carry out assassinations in Yemen as part of the Yemeni Civil War (2015–present),[3][4][5] which may be a violation of the US War Crimes Act of 1996.[6]
In 2015, the company embedded a team of US special forces veterans and former members of the French Foreign Legion within the Emirati military, which supplied the team with weapons, uniforms, Emirati military ranks and identity tags.[7][8] By 2016, Spear Operations Group had replaced the Legionnaires with Americans.[1]
On 29 December 2015, Spear Operations Group began its operations in Yemen with a failed assassination attempt on Anssaf Ali Mayo, the local leader of Islamist political party Al-Islah.[9][10]
Though the first operation failed, the team stayed on in Yemen for several more months and claimed credit for a number of other high-profile assassinations.[11] Their targets included other members of al-Islah, nonviolent clerics, and some “out and out terrorists.”[1]
After Spear Operations Group’s assassinations were made public by an October 2018 BuzzFeed News report, US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Menendez wrote letters to the State Department demanding answers about Spear Operations Group, focusing on whether the federal government knew about their involvement in the war in Yemen.[12] Warren also sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for an investigation into the group.[7][13]
Laura Vanessa Nunes 