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| Airlines Suspend Flights to Yemen Amid Heavy Fighting |
| 2014-09-20 |
| [VOA News] International airlines have suspended flights to Yemen's capital, Sana'a, following days of heavy fighting between 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... rebels and Sunni militias that has caused hundreds of residents to flee. More than 40 people were killed in festivities overnight as rebel Houthi gunnies took over police and military patrol points in several parts of the city. Yemen state owned media say the rebels shelled a state-owned television station Thursday in an attack that continued into Friday. Reports say authorities have cut off mobile telephone and Internet connections in the capital, although landlines appear to be working. The fighting is the most recent in a series of low-level festivities between Yemen's army and the Houthi rebels, which belong to the Zaidi Shi'ite sect. The Houthis have led a campaign calling for the replacement of the government and economic reforms. Yemen's Sunni-majority government has accused them of being a proxy for Iran, blaming the mainly Shi'ite nation for sparking the unrest. |
| Posted by:Fred |