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The Secret Behind the Yemen War     :  Information Clearing House - ICH

The Secret Behind the Yemen War     :  Information Clearing House - ICH


May 08, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "Consortium
News"
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PBS
Frontline’s “Yemen
Under Siege,” which aired on May 3, makes for
powerful viewing. A first-hand look at the
devastation that the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and other
powers have visited on one of the poorest countries
in the Middle East, the 35-minute documentary shows
families struggling amid the rubble, children dying
from mortar attacks, surgeons operating without
anesthesia, and other such horrors...

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