RE: USA bombing rebels claim
The accuracy of the rebels claims could be challenged.
As far as the affect on Cantex - small to none.
The US is the great satan there but Canada is included by proxy. The US has been attacked several times in recent history. The attack on the USS Cole in October 2000 and the US Embassy attack in September 2008(car bomb and rifle attack) come to mind.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091216/world/yemen_north_unrest_us
Wed Dec 16, 3:08 PM
SANAA (AFP) - Shiite rebels on Wednesday accused the US air force of bombing villages in northern Yemen amid their conflict with government forces and neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
The Sanaa government swiftly dismissed the charge as a sign of the rebels' desperation, while Washington has already ruled out any direct involvement in the conflict.
"The American air force committed massacres ... and used all types of military weapons to destroy villages and houses and schools and public facilities and to kill civilians," the rebels said in a statement.
"Direct American intervention began early last week, and bombing of various areas of north Yemen continues until now," it said.
The rebels, also known as Huthis, have been fighting the Yemeni government on and off since 2004. In August, government forces launched an all-out offensive codenamed "Operation Scorched Earth" aimed at wiping out the revolt.
Saudi Arabia joined the fray on November 4, a day after the Huthi rebels killed a Saudi border guard and occupied two villages inside the Gulf state's territory.
The Huthis' statement on Wednesday was not their first such allegation against the United States.
US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley, at a press briefing in Washington, categorically denied his country was militarily involved in the conflict in northern Yemen.
"Those kinds of reports keep cropping up. We do not have a military role in this conflict," he said on Tuesday.
The Yemeni government, meanwhile, said it was the country's own armed forces which carried out air strikes against the rebels and that their allegations were mere lies.
"We are used to lies and allegations from (the rebels) which they use to justify their crimes against the rights of citizens," a government source said in a statement.
"The heavy blows inflicted by our armed forces have pushed the rebels to the point of despair. One minute, they accuse the Saudi air force, the next it's the US air force," the source said.