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Coalition did not prevent Houthis from attending peace talks
 [ARABNEWS] A Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... delegation who failed to attend peace talks last week in Geneva, were not prevented in any way, the Arab coalition said Tuesday. The coalition, which is supporting the internationally recognized government of Yemen, has said the Houthis were provided with all means to travel to the Swiss capital to attend UN-backed peace talks. The Houthis were accused of ’sabotage’ by the government after they did not show for the talks. "We want the UN to be firmer in bringing the other party to the negotiations", said Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani, after three days of talks with UN envoy Stephen Griffiths. The Houthi group wanted the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... to guarantee that the flight carrying its delegation would not be inspected by coalition forces. "They would have like to get here, we didn’t make conditions sufficiently correct to get them here," Griffiths told a news conference, declining to elaborate. But the government called the Houthi no-show totally irresponsible: "If they were sincere in reaching peace, they should have come, even if we were meeting in separate rooms," said al-Yamani. The Iran-backed Houthis have fired numerous missiles into civilian areas in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... from across the border in Yemen. Posted by: Fred 2018-09-12 |
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