by Freddie Ponton, Activist Post:
A Gulf monarchy hired an Israeli‑Hungarian mercenary and a team of American special forces veterans to run a black‑budget assassination program against a civilian political party in Yemen. It did this while posing in Washington and Brussels as a “stability partner” under Iranian threat, while hosting U.S. bases being used to attack neighbouring Iran.
This article follows that “kill program” from a bombed party office in Aden, through to a Belgrade weapons arrest and a murdered lawyer, and all the way to a world where even Western influencers can credibly fear being targeted by ‘deniable’ squads trained by allies. If you want to understand how state power, private military contractors, and “counterterrorism” rhetoric have fused into a market for political murder, this is it.
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The Assassination Contract
On the night of December 29, 2015, an armored SUV moved through Aden toward the local headquarters of Yemen’s al‑Islah party, carrying American special operations veterans and former French Foreign Legionnaires working for the Spear Operations Group, a company registered in Delaware, in the town of Camden, and hired by the United Arab Emirates. Their target was Anssaf Ali Mayo, a member of Yemen’s parliament and al‑Islah’s chairman in Aden, who had already been warned there was a price on his head.
The plan was brutally simple. One man would attach a shrapnel‑packed bomb to the party office door. Another was ready to throw grenades and open fire if anyone survived the blast. Footage and later reporting described a powerful explosion, bursts of gunfire, and the detonation of a booby‑trapped vehicle parked nearby to widen the kill zone. Mayo survived only because he had fled moments earlier after receiving word that the attack was imminent.
A sealed complaint later filed in federal court in San Diego argues that this was not an isolated battlefield incident, but the opening move in a paid assassination program. The lawsuit says former special forces commando Abraham Golan, former Navy SEAL Isaac Gilmore, and former Green Beret Dale Comstock agreed to run a targeted killing campaign for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) inside of Yemen for $1.5 million a month, with additional bonuses for successful hits. Their vehicle was Spear Operations Group, a company incorporated in Delaware, pitched from the San Diego area, and staffed with American veterans and European mercenaries.
DOCUMENT: Civil lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court by Yemeni lawmaker Anssaf Ali Mayo against Abraham Golan, Isaac Gilmore, and Dale Comstock, alleging that they ran a UAE‑funded assassination program in Yemen and attempted to kill him with a bomb attack on al‑Islah’s Aden headquarters (Source: The Center for Justice and Accountability | CJA)
BuzzFeed’s original investigation put Spear at the intersection of three trends reshaping war itself: targeted killing replacing conventional objectives, the outsourcing of almost every military function to private firms, and a generation of special operations veterans able to sell state‑grade violence on the open market. In that reporting, Golan distilled the whole experiment into a single line that sounds less like a confession than like a sales pitch for what he sees as the future of warfare. “There was a targeted assassination program in Yemen, I was running it, we did it,” he said, and insisted it was sanctioned by the UAE inside the wider coalition war.
