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| At least 33 dead in Yemeni clashes, drone kills 7 militants |
| 2014-11-13 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 33 people have been killed in central Yemen in fighting in the past two days between Shi'ite Moslem 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 Americaâ¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... fighters trying to expand their control and Sunni tribes allied with al Qaeda, residents said on Wednesday. Separately, a U.S. drone killed seven suspected al Qaeda Lions of Islam in southern Yemen while they were on their way to carry out an attack, Yemeni military sources said. The expansion of the Houthis, who hail mainly from northern Yemen, has unsettled Sunni tribes in central al-Bayda province, threatening to provoke sectarian conflict. Residents reported intense fighting in the Qifa area, home to powerful al-Bayda Sunni tribes who joined hands with the local al Qaeda wing, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , to halt the Houthi advance. In the city of Radda in the same province, which fell to the Houthis earlier this month, a boom-mobile apparently targeting a local tribal leader allied with the Houthis was blown up safely before it reached its intended destination, residents said. They said the vehicle was halted by a security barrier erected some distance from the home of Sheikh Mohammed Muqbel al-Aywei and his followers blew it up without casualties. |
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