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| Saudi Soldier Killed, 10 Wounded by Gunfire from Yemen |
| 2015-04-03 |
| [AnNahar] 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... said Thursday a soldier was rubbed out and 10 maimed by gunfire from across the 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... border, its first casualties since launching an operation against Iranian catspaws a week ago. The Border Guards at a post in the kingdom's southwestern Asir region came "under fire from a mountainous interior zone," the interior ministry said in a statement on the official Saudi Press Agency. Saudi Arabia has 150,000 troops and 100 warplanes assigned to the Yemen operation, according to a Saudi adviser, but says it has no plan for now to send ground forces into the neighboring country. Last Friday a U.S. defense official said two Saudi pilots who ejected from their F-15 jet off Yemen's coast had been rescued. The Saudi-led coalition is aiming to defeat the Houthis who seized power in the capital Sanaa in February, and who Riyadh feared would take over the entire country and shift it into Iran's orbit. In Jazan region, a border district adjacent to Asir, the closure of 49 schools will be extended for a week beginning Sunday as a "precautionary measure" because of their location near the Yemeni frontier, the Saudi Press Agency said, citing an education official. |
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