Welcome back to Conflicted. This is the podcast where I Thomas Small, co-producer of Path of Blood and

Aaimendine, former MI6 double agent Inside Al-Qaeda, try to unpick the tangled web of the war on terror and sundry Middle Eastern

conflicts for you, the listener.

You should be on radio, you have a very perfect voice for it.

This is, I am now on radio. This is happening.

Before we get into this episode I'm just going to recap what happened in

episode three. Last time Aaman and I talked about the Iraq war, the great mistake of American foreign

policy, which opened the floodgates to a whole host of unexpected tragedies, though perhaps

they could have been foreseen.

In this episode, we're going to start wading through the murky waters of issues like Arab nationalism.

We'll get to the fallout from the Arab Spring,

and eventually we're going to come to the sad story of Yemen,

a beautiful country that some would say

has been held hostage to the eschatological ideals

of the Iranian regime via a group called the Huthies.

Some call them terrorists, others call them freedom fighters.

Aaman and I have our own opinions of what we think are pretty tell-tell signs of who the

huthies are.

The flag of the huthies have four sentences on it.

Al-Mothula it on it to America.

Al moat to Israel.

Death to Israel.

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