A plainly threatening message from President Obama has been delivered to the president of Yemen, who is a slippery character and our current "friend" only because he is not as problematic as he could be and he understands the precarious situation he could be in if we chose to play this hand differently.
Pres. Ali Saleh has been told that he will -- WILL -- go along with every facet of our war plans in Yemen or he WILL find himself in huge political trouble at home and likely out of a job or worse. He was briefed on the overall plan (with, of course, no hard operational details) and had better support it with no shenanigans or else.
In situations like this, when we are waving a large stick at him that we have promised to club him with if he does not accept the carrot and eat it with a smile, we dedicate tremendous intel assets to monitor nearly every word he utters or writes. One of the things we have told him is that we know about all the dirty deals he has made and all the money he has stolen from his country's coffers, and if he does not play nice, that info will "leak" and his money will vanish (we know where a lot of it is). If we even think he is trying to double-cross us or do an end-around, he has been told of the most grim of consequences.
The biggest ax we are holding over his head? We know he knew about the USS Cole hit in the planning phase.
Large DoD wheels are already turning on this new front on the GWOT.
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