The BBC has noted that “The US Central Intelligence Agency has been operating a secret airbase for unmanned drones in Saudi Arabia for the past two years. The facility was established to hunt for members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen. A drone flown from there was used in September 2011 to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric who was alleged to be AQAP’s external operations chief. US media have known of its existence since then, but have not reported it”.
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Order and Tradition 
11/11/2013 at 5:26 pm |
[…] In light of the ongoing talks between Iran and America, as well as the Saudi initative to buy nuclear weapons and fund what is effectively a second army in Syria the relationship between the two countries is fraught but not broken. […]