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A6 WORLD NEWS
Wednesday 2 February 2022
U.S. military fired missiles during Yemen Houthi attack on UAE

By JON GAMBRELL eration of seven sheikh-
Associated Press doms on the Arabian Pen-
DUBAI, United Arab Emir- insula, has threatened
ates (AP) — The U.S. military criminal charges against
launched interceptor mis- anyone filming an attack
siles during an attack by or outgoing interceptor fire.
Yemen's Houthi rebels that The UAE's state-run WAM
targeted the United Arab news agency reported
Emirates during a visit by Monday's interception,
Israel's president, the sec- saying "the attack did
ond-such time American not result in any losses, as
troops have opened fire, the remnants of the bal-
officials said. listic missile fell outside the
The acknowledgement by populated areas." It wasn't
the White House and Pen- immediately clear where
tagon late Monday repre- the remnants fell, though
sent a widening American American Patriot missiles
involvement in Yemen's are thought only to be de-
yearslong war, a conflict ployed at Al-Dhafra.
that President Joe Biden The attack came just be-
declared nearly a year fore Israeli President Isaac
ago "has to end." Herzog's visit to Dubai Expo
While the U.S. has ended 2020.
offensive support to the A Jan. 17 attack on Abu
Saudi-led coalition fighting Dhabi by the Houthis killed
on behalf of Yemen's exiled three people and wound-
government, their involve- ed six at an Abu Dhabi
ment in defending the UAE National Oil Co. fuel depot
comes as the rebel Houthis near Al-Dhafra.
have declared Al-Dhafra The war in Yemen has be-
Air Base in Abu Dhabi a tar- In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Spc. Scottlin Bartlett of the 5-52 Air Defense come the world's worst hu-
get. Al-Dhafra hosts some Artillery Battalion signals to a colleague while working near a Patriot missile battery at Al-Dhafra manitarian crisis. Saudi-led
2,000 American troops and Air Base in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 5, 2021. airstrikes using American-
has served as a major base Associated Press made bombs have killed
of operations for everything schoolchildren and civil-
from armed drones to F-35 armed forces of the UAE," Asked if that would in- Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad ians. The UAE paid off local
stealth fighters. Psaki said. "I would say we clude targets outside of Al Thani, saying that "Amer- al-Qaida fighters to avoid
Speaking from the White are working quite closely Al-Dhafra, Kirby said: " If we ica will have the backs of fighting and controlled pris-
House, press secretary Jen with them." can help defend our Emi- our friends in the region." ons where torture and sex-
Psaki said the U.S. military At the Pentagon, press sec- rati partners, we're going to The Emirati military, as with ual abuse were rampant.
"responded to an inbound retary John Kirby said that do that." a similar attack last week, Meanwhile, Yemen's Houthi
missile threat on the UAE. "U.S. Patriots were fired, but Biden also mentioned the did not acknowledge rebels have employ child
"This involved the employ- it was the Emirati surface- attack on the UAE at the that the American military soldiers and indiscriminate-
ment of Patriot interceptors to-air missiles that actually White House during a vis- opened fire. ly laid landmines during the
to ... (support) efforts by the engaged the targets." it by Qatar's ruling emir, The autocratic UAE, a fed- country's civil war.q

Heavy gunfire heard near Guinea-Bissau's Government Palace

country with a long history "ECOWAS condemns this d'etats and more than a
of military takeovers. coup attempt and holds dozen attempted coups.
The state broadcaster has the military responsible for The small nation of around
reported that the shooting the bodily integrity of Presi- 1.5 million people, has long
has damaged the govern- dent Umaro Sissoco Em- been beset by corruption
ment building and that balo and the members of and drug trafficking. In the
"invaders" are holding of- his government," the state- 2000s, it became known as
ficials. ment said in a tweet. a transit point for cocaine
President Umaro Cissoko Embalo was declared the between Latin America
Embalo, a former army winner of the December and Europe as traffickers
general, was believed to 2019 runoff vote, though profited from corruption
be inside the building at the results were contested and weak law enforce-
the time of the attack. by his opponent, Domin- ment.
The 15-nation West African gos Simoes Pereira. Embalo West Africa has seen a
regional bloc known as then started forming a new spate of coups since Au-
President of Guinea-Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrives for a
dinner at the Elysee Palace as part of the Paris Peace Forum, in ECOWAS, already grap- government with support gust 2020, with military jun-
Paris, Nov. 11, 2021. pling with three other from the military while a Su- tas grabbing power in Mali,
Associated Press coups in member states preme Court election chal- Guinea and Burkina Faso.
over the last 18 months, lenge was still pending. Despite international pres-
By VAGNER BARBOSA ment Palace in Guinea- called Tuesday's violence Since gaining indepen- sure for a return to consti-
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) Bissau's capital, witnesses a coup attempt and said dence from Portugal in tutional rule, none of the
— Heavy gunfire erupted said, raising fears of a coup it is following the situation in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has military rulers have yet to
Tuesday near the Govern- attempt in this West African Bissau "with great concern." experienced four coup organize new elections.q