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| GCC unruffled by Houthi military drill |
| 2015-03-14 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has said its member states had "enough capability to protect [their] territories and illusory sovereignty," after thousands of Shiite 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... rebels reportedly held military drills in northern Yemen, near the border with 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... Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiya, whose country currently holds of the rotating GCC chair, made the statements on Thursday after a GCC meeting in Riyadh. "A move here and there would not affect the GCC states," Attiya told a news conference. The drill in the al-Buqa region in the Houthis' home province of Saada included heavy weapons acquired from the Yemeni army, local tribal and Houthi sources said, according to Rooters. "This is normal because Yemen is facing internal and external challenges. They (the exercises) are in preparation for any aggression," Houthi commander Mohammed al-Bukheiti said. Western and regional powers are particularly concerned about the security situation in Yemen of the presence of one of al-Qaeda's most active wings. Certain factions in the deeply divided Yemeni army have allied themselves with the Houthis against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The president has tried to consolidate his control over Aden since he fled there. Last week, he sacked the commander of the city's military garrison, a Special Forces contingent led by a general viewed as loyal to Hadi's predecessor, 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... , who the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... says is ally of the Houthis. General Abdel-Hafez al-Saqqaf refused to step down ... Hell no! The money's too good!... , culminating in a shootout on Thursday in which one soldier and two members of a local militia loyal to Hadi were killed, according to Aden residents. |
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