[An Nahar] Twenty gunnies were killed Thursday in festivities between Zaidi Iranian catspaws and Sunni Salafist...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't...
s in northern Yemen, a security official said.
Clashes erupted in the morning in the northwestern Hajjah province between rebel gunnies, known as Huthis, and Sunni beturbanned goons, the local official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The official said the shootout took place in the city of Mustaba, close to the Red Sea port city of Midi, at the border with Soddy Arabia.
Other festivities erupted between the Sunni Waela tribe and Iranian catspaws in the province of Saada, the stronghold of the rebels.
Fighting between the Sunni fundamentalists and the Houthis had raged over the past months in the northern town of Dammaj, south of Saada, where a Salafist Islamic teaching school was besieged by Houthis.
At least 71 people were killed in festivities that erupted in mid-October, a front man for the Dar al-Hadith school claimed in late December.
The school trains Sunni preachers and believes in the strictest and most draconian interpretations of Islam.
In 2004, Zaidi Shiites, who regularly complain of inequality and marginalization by the central government, rebelled against President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
's regime.
Thousands of Yemenis were killed before a ceasefire was declared in February 2010.