US gets payment from Saudi-led coalition for killing more Yemenis

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The US which backs the coalition received its first reimbursement payment from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, as it failed to charge for fuel and refueling charges, according to Pentagon on Thursday, Anadolu reports.

“The U.S. has received initial reimbursement for the additional refueling expenses following notification to the Saudi-led Coalition of the billing error,” Pentagon spokeswoman Rebecca Rebarich told Anadolu Agency in a statement.

The charges to Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been for their campaign in Yemen to fight Yemeni army forces.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.