The Al Qaeda takeover of Yemen story was faked

(WMR)—WMR’s sources in Europe and Yemen have confirmed that the Obama administration and the government of Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi faked a recent terrorism warning that Yemen was about to be besieged by Al Qaeda forces who planned to attack U.S. and other Western targets in the country.

The phony story also about a terrorist alert involving Yemen included information leaked by Obama administration national security sources to the Obama propaganda outlet, The Daily Beast, which was, in turn, picked up by another cipher for the U.S. intelligence community, Business Insider.com.

The Obama administration leaks described Al Qaeda’s Yemeni chief, Nasser al Wuhayshi, as participating in a 20-person conference call with other Al Qaeda “franchisees” in Nigeria, North Africa, Pakistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, as well as with Al Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is a one-time asset of the CIA. The Obama administration leaker described the conference call participants as being similar to the Legion of Doom.

The Legion of Doom is the fictional alliance of comic book villains, including Lex Luthor, The Riddler, Bizarro Superman, and The Joker, who fight against the Justice League of America. The fakery of the Obama terror alert is as fictional as the comic book group upon which the Al Qaeda group’s conference call was based.

The conference call and Al Qaeda-Yemen’s alleged plan to seize control of the cities of Mukalla and Bawazeer in the Hadhramaut region of South Yemen were fabrications used to support President Barack Obama’s decision to close over 20 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world to justify his continued widespread electronic surveillance by the U.S. National Security Council.

The U.S. State Department and other Western foreign ministries evacuated their diplomatic personnel from Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, as part of the Obama administration and NSA face-saving ruse. The chief propagandists in the media who advanced the fake story were Eli Lake and Josh Rogin of The Daily Beast, a website that has been active in defending NSA surveillance while viciously attacking all NSA critics.

When pressed on why Al Qaeda would use an easily-traced conference call to coordinate a terrorist attack, Lake, a former reporter for the neocon New York Sun and Moonie-owned UPI, replied that the Al Qaeda conclave was not exactly a “conference call” but was a generic use of the term. In other words, a couple of neocon “journalists” lied and like so many of their ilk, made a poor attempt to cover up the original phony story, concocted from government-created falsehoods.

For Yemeni President Hadi, the U.S. fabrication also had the effect of associating legitimate opponents of his regime, namely the South Yemen independence restoration movement in the south and east and Shi’a Houthi rebels in the north, with “phantom” Al Qaeda units. Opponents of Hadi have charged that Al Qaeda in Yemen is actually supported by the United States and the central Yemeni government as a way to divide and conquer Yemen’s legitimate opposition movements and political parties and keep Yemen under the military domination of the United States.

The false terror alert manufactured by the Obama White House had the effect of keeping Yemenis in their homes as both U.S. drones and manned U.S. warplanes flew over Sana’a, Taiz, Hodeida, Mukalla, and Aden, Yemen’s largest cities. The Yemeni government also issued false stories that Al Qaeda was planning to storm Sana’a, in addition to Mukalla and Bawazeer. Even the few independent media operations in Yemen were confined to their homes, offices, and hotel rooms because of the fear of sudden and unprovoked U.S. drone and manned aircraft air-to-ground missile attacks.

The central government and its U.S. allies required a propaganda success because the Yemeni “national dialogue,” currently taking place between the government and opposition in the Yemeni capital, has been going badly for Hadi and his supporters. South Yemeni forces are united in demanding a restoration of the independence of the more secular-aligned South Yemen, something strongly opposed by Obama and his globalist military and intelligence advisers, including new National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who takes her orders from the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.

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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).