India, April 1 -- A Yemeni lawmaker says in a lawsuit that US military veterans who worked for a private security firm were hired as mercenaries to kill him in 2015 on behalf of the United Arab Emirates as part of a campaign by the US ally that targeted political opponents.

The lawsuit by Anssaf Ali Mayo in federal court in San Diego was unsealed last week, revealing details of the allegations against former executives and employees of Spear Operations Group, a private military contracting firm that incorporated in Delaware in 2015 but was dissolved in 2018.

Many of the employees were former US special forces operators.  Mayo, a member of Yemen's parliament, who is represented by the Centre for Justice and Accountability, accuses t...