AMRAN, YEMEN — The offensive war on Yemen, the most impoverished nation in the Middle East, was launched in 2015 by a U.S.-backed coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia, the richest nation in the Middle East. It has plunged a nation already struggling to provide basic services to its citizens into chaos, a nation now ruled by a ragtag consortium of different groups all thirsting for power. The result? A complete absence of law and order in Yemen has given rise to a black Suq (market) of human trafficking on a scale never before seen in the war-torn and war-weary nation....
[In the seventies, one Saudi officer who was sent to military training at Fort Knox in Louisville. KY told me a story that vividly rings in my memory. “King Saud the founder of Saudi Arabia was invading different areas of Arabia to build his Saudi Kingdom. His son who later on became King Faisal was leading a military campaign in southern Arabia. was planning to invade Yemen. When King Saud learnt about his son’s plans, he immediately sent him an urgent message. “Son of a bitch retreat and never plan to invade Yemen. We are no match to the Yemeni fighters”]