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| Truce broken between rebels & tribes in Yemen |
| 2010-07-26 |
| Autoedited by Rantburg [Al Arabiya Latest] Fresh clashes erupted on Sunday in north Yemen between Iranian catspaws and government-backed primitives after a 24-hour truce that followed fighting in which dozens of people were ejected from the gene pool, a mediator told AFP. The latest festivities came just hours after President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he did not want another war with the Houthis, after a week of clashes reportedly killed around 70 people. The mediator said rebels attacked a military vehicle in the al-Amishiya region of Amran province, causing the closure of the main road linking the capital to the rebel base of Saada just a day after it was reopened. Sunday's clash resulted in the death of six soldiers, residents contacted by telephone from Sanaa told AFP. The fighting, in which automatic weapons and cannons were used, broke out after a truce negotiated on Saturday foundered over differences "about control of a position held by men of the bin Aziz tribe," the mediator said. Requesting anonymity, the mediator said tribal chief "Sheikh Saghir Aziz rejected a rebel condition" for the truce "that he leave al-Amishiya and pull out his men from a position at al-Zaala, and not hand it over to the army." The strategic position controls the Sanaa-Saada road. "Sheikh Saghir Aziz has accepted a withdrawal from this position, but on condition that it be handed over to the army -- which the rebels reject," the mediator said. Saleh on Sunday said he did not want another war with the Shiite Zaidi rebels in northern Yemen, also known as Houthis. "Peace, security and stability are the choice of the state," he said at a military ceremony. "I say no to another war. "Stop jeopardising the security and stability of the province of Saada," Saleh said, referring to the restive region that has been the scene of on-off confrontations since a Houthi rebellion began in 2004. "Houthis who are defying rules and laws should implement" the ceasefire agreement which ended the last round of the war in February, the president said. Both sides have repeatedly accused the other of violating the ceasefire. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Do they smoke over there, Pappy? I thought they were into dribbling green from stuffing their mouths with khat leaves... written on green dribble is truly icky, though no less temporary. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-26 23:40 |
| #3 Not worth the hookah-smoke it was written on. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-07-26 21:00 |
| #2 "I looked around me and -- thhhhhp! -- it was gone!" |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-07-26 10:38 |
| #1 Dat ceasefire didn't last very long, did it? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-26 00:18 |