[arista]

They are placing ads selling Guns
in Yemen on X


BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner
was just live on BBCnewsHD


He said it is not easy to get pages taken down
since it became X.


[A file picture of an AK47 rifle and ammunition]


[Weapons dealers in Yemen are openly using
the social media platform X, formerly known
as Twitter, to sell Kalashnikovs, pistols,
grenades and grenade-launchers.

The traders operate in the capital Sana’a
and other areas under control of the
Houthis, a rebel group backed by
Iran and proscribed as terrorists by
the US and Australian governments.

"It is inconceivable that they
[the weapons dealers] are not operating
on the Houthis’ behalf," said the former
British Ambassador to Yemen,
Edmund Fitton-Brown, who now works
for the Counter Extremism Project.

"Purely private dealers who tried to profit from
supplying, [for example] the government of Yemen,
would be quickly shut down."

An investigation by The Times newspaper
found that several of the Yemeni accounts
bore the blue tick of verification. ]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86l4pl6072o