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| Hadi Absence Clouds US Effort to Fight Al-Qaida in Yemen |
| 2015-03-28 |
| [VOA News] President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's decision to leave Yemen, as 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 advanced on his complex in Aden, has raised concerns about the U.S. effort to fight al-Qaeda faceless myrmidons in the country. Although the Houthi rebels who have gained control of large swaths of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... also oppose al-Qaeda, it is unlikely they would work with the U.S. to fight the terrorist group. The Houthis consider themselves "authentic Yemen" and beholden to no foreigners, said Charles Schmitz, an analyst at the Middle East Institute in Washington. "They can not been seen as cooperating with the Americans," he said. State Department front man Jeff Rathke said the U.S. has ways to make its views known to the Houthis, but "we have not had direct contacts with the Houthis." Publicly, the U.S. has continued to support the Hadi government in Yemen. Rathke said Yemen's conflict came up "briefly" Thursday in talks between Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at nuclear negotiations in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... . He said Kerry also spoke to Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers. The alliance of six Arab countries is leading an effort to bomb targets of the Iran-backed Houthis. |
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