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| Yemen militia sends forces south as UN warns of civil war |
| 2015-03-24 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Yemen's Shiite militia sent reinforcements south and clashed with local fighters on March 23 after the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... warned the country is on the brink of a protracted civil war. Security sources said the militiamen, known as Huthis, had sent several thousand troops south and fought with local Sunni tribes as they approached the main southern city of Aden, where President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi took refuge after fleeing the capital last month. On Sunday the militia seized the airport and a nearby military base in Taez, Yemen's third-largest city which is just 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Aden and seen as a strategic entry point to Hadi's southern refuge. Yemen, a long-time US ally which borders 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... , is increasingly divided between a north controlled by the Huthis, who are allegedly backed by Iran, and a south dominated by Hadi supporters. Mounting unrest in the country -- including suicide kabooms claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group that killed 142 people in the Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa on Friday -- have raised international concerns and prompted an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Sunday. Its 15 members voiced their unanimous support for Hadi, with UN envoy Jamal Benomar warning that without immediate action the country will slide into "further violence and dislocation". "(Recent events) seem to be leading Yemen to the edge of a civil war," Benomar told the meeting by video link from 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... , warning of a protracted crisis like "a Libya-Syria combined scenario." If what they've been having isn't a civi war I'm not sure what one looks like. They've had all the classic features but the siege of Vicksburg. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 See also TOPIX > [Various] YEMEN LEADER [President Hadi] ASKS UN TO BACK [Internationa] MILITARY ACTION AGZ REBELS. * SAME > SAUDI ARABIA MASSES MILITARY FORCES [+ Arty] NEAR YEMEN BORDER: US OFFICIALS. Prob wid this is that the KSA has historically always had one of the smaller Armed Forces of any in the Arab League, OIC andor OPEC - iff the KSA's armed forces are up near Yemen, WHAT DO THE SAUDIS HAVE LEFT TO GUARD AGZ ISIS/ISIL + BFF AL-NUSRA, BOKO HARAM + AL-SHABAAB, ETAL.??? just askin'. VERSUS * MANILA BULLETIN > US [POTUS Obama's] COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY IN YEMEN [all but] COLLAPSES AMID CHAOS. Drum Roll, Maestro, iff you please - WILL IRAN [Turkey?] SAVE THE DAY FOR YEMEN + OBAMA??? Given ... * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRANIAN GENERAL [IRGC Quds Cdr for Iraq Soleimani]: TODAY IRAQ AND LEBANON, TOMORROW JORDAN. QASSEM SOLEIMANI IS FIRST SENIOR IRAN OFFICIAL TO REVEAL TEHRAN'S AMBITIONS IN HASHEMITE KINGDOM. Looks like Israeli PM Netanyahu or successor + IDF, IDAF won't have to go far to bomb bomb bomb Iran. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-03-24 23:14 |