Israel thought a Saudi-based, CIA-linked covert spy network would stay buried. Well the Houthis just tore it to shreds! Right, so the CIA, Mossad and Saudi intelligence tried to run another spy ring in Yemen — and got rinsed again. The operation was called “Their Schemes Will Fail.” They should’ve taken the hint. Yemen’s Interior Ministry dropped the statement on 8 November, naming names, naming countries, and naming the Saudi soil it was run from. Twenty-one arrests, a public trial, and three humiliated foreign agencies pretending not to have heard. No denial from Washington. No comment from Riyadh. No surprise in Sanaa. The network was meant to choke Yemen’s support for Palestine; instead, it turned into the latest proof that Western and Gulf power can’t even keep a secret any more. The spies came to map Yemen. Yemen mapped them. That’s not esp ...