5/11/23 Joziah Thayer on AQAP’s Standing in Yemen

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Joziah Thayer joins to show to discuss some of the work he’s done digging into the many factions and groups within Yemen and the foreign powers working to pull their strings. Scott and Thayer drill in on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, and explore how the group’s standing in Yemen has changed and how the country is likely to evolve going forward. Discussed on the show: “The CIA, AQAP, and the Never-Ending Excuse to Bomb Yemen” (WEDA Coalition) “How the IMF & World Bank Destroyed Yemen” (WEDA Coalition) Joziah Thayer is a researcher with the Pursuance Project. He founded WEDA in 2014 to combat mainstream media narratives. He is also an antiwar activist and the online organizer behind #OpYemen. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
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0:56.0	and he founded the Weta Coalition,
0:59.0	an unmonetized research-based information site to combat mainstream narratives and he's been
1:06.3	right in for us at anti-war.com on the most important topic of the war in Yemen and for a good half dozen articles or more by now
1:18.4	welcome the show Josai how are you doing? I'm doing well Scott thanks for having me man I really appreciate you joining us on the show and all these great articles that you've been writing for us here
1:29.6	The latest is the CIA a QQAP, and the never ending excuse to bomb Yemen.
1:35.6	Damn it, man, can't I enjoy the good news for a minute before the bad news kicks back in?
1:41.6	We've ended one war and now we're switching sides again is that right?
1:46.4	Yeah that that's right and you know of all people that the Yemen option has been active in Yemen for a long time.
1:55.0	The CIA has been operating in Yemen out of Djibouti and other North African places.
2:00.0	And Yemen is obviously a hot spot for al-Qaeda because that's where Osama
2:09.8	Laden came from and you know the first United States citizen to be killed by a drone was in
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