Long history of covert activity
Issue 920
- 22 Mar 2012
| 3 minute read
Saudi Arabia’s covert operations have been mostly focused in Yemen, a country that some US observers term ‘Saudi Arabia’s Mexico’. In the 1960s, Saudi Arabia bankrolled the north Yemen civil war, a long-running royalist guerrilla war against the new Egyptian-backed Yemeni Arab Republic that inflicted just under 100,000 Egyptian fatalities in eight years.
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