Al-Ahmar has also not benefited from the military aid that the US lavished on Yemen in the wake of al-Qaeda’s failed Christmas Day plot in 2009 to down an American airliner. While the Central Security Service, led by Saleh’s nephew Yahya, has received millions of dollars to fight al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Ahmar has been left out of the economic bonanza.
同时阿赫玛尔也没有从美国向也门提供的大规模军事援助（起因是基地组织于2009年圣诞针对一架美国客机的未遂袭击）中捞到任何好处。当由萨利赫的侄子雅赫亚领导的也门中央情报机构坐收美国数百万美元打击阿拉伯半岛基地组织经费时，阿赫玛尔却只能眼睁睁地看着前者大发其财。