Quincy’s report on Saudi lobbying for the US.
The Quincy think tank wrote in a report that the Saudis spent large sums of money to purify their faces and create an inverted narrative during the seven years of war in Yemen.
The Quincy Center for International Studies has released a report revealing the secrets of Saudi Arabia spending more than $ 100 million to lobbyists in the United States to continue military deals and cover up crimes committed during the Yemeni war.
The report, written after the seventh anniversary of the start of the Yemeni war, states that the catastrophic war in Yemen has claimed nearly half a million lives and that the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis has recently launched attacks. Has intensified in this destabilizing conflict, which is considered the worst human crisis in the world.
According to the center, during the war, the Saudis tried to cover up the facts of the war with their propaganda and rhetoric. The Kingdom has spent more than $ 100 million on lobbyists and public relations professionals in the United States to facilitate arms sales.
According to Dr. Anil Shilin, a West Asia researcher at the Quincy Institute, the Saudi-led coalition has carried out more than 24,600 airstrikes since the start of the war in 2015, highlighting the unbalanced nature of the war in Yemen.
According to the report, more than 9,000 Yemeni civilians were killed in Saudi coalition airstrikes, while 59 Saudi civilians were killed in attacks by the Yemeni army and Ansarullah in the border areas, a figure that Riyadh claims’s invasion of Yemen is self-defense. It hurts.
The Yemeni Data Collection Project, a non-profit organization that tracks data on the Yemeni war, says the Saudi-led coalition carried out nearly 700 airstrikes in February 2022. The frequency of bombings in recent months has been higher than in any other month since.
