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| Saudi airstrike hits Yemen rebel convoy, strains cease-fire |
| 2015-05-14 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A jet-fighter from a Saudi-led coalition struck a military convoy belonging to Iranian catspaws and their allies in southern 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... on Wednesday, straining a humanitarian, five-day cease-fire that took hold the previous day. Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... a senior Iranian military official warned the U.S.-backed coalition against blocking a Yemen-bound Iranian aid ship, saying that such a move would "spark a fire" in the region. Wednesday's ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province was in response to an attempt by the rebels known as Houthis to reinforce their forces in the nearby city of Aden, a port city on the Arabian Sea, said Yemeni security officials. The Houthis acknowledged the However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... continued ground fighting was reported in some areas shortly after the cease-fire came into force on Tuesday night, with security officials and witnesses saying fierce combat broke out when the rebels sought to storm the southern city of Dhale, firing tank shells, rockets and mortars. The officials and witnesses all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. A Saudi Defense Ministry statement accused the Houthis of violating the ceasefire Wednesday morning by firing toward the Saudi border areas of Jizan and Najran. The statement quoted an unnamed official, as it regularly does, as saying the kingdom's armed forces were exercising restraint in line with a commitment to the ceasefire. 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... and its coalition of Sunni Arab countries began the ... 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 overran the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen late last year and have been on the offensive in the south. The Saudis and their allies are seeking the restoration of the Western-backed President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the country in March in the face of the Houthis' advance In Tehran, Gen. Masoud Jazayeri warned that actions against the Iranian aid ship would not be tolerated. "I bluntly declare that the self-restraint of Islamic Theocratic Republicof Iran is not limitless," Jazayeri, the deputy chief of staff, told Iran's Arabic-language Al-Alam state TV late Tuesday. "Both Saudi Arabia and its novice rulers, as well as the Americans and others, should be mindful that if they cause trouble for the Islamic Theocratic Republicwith regard to sending humanitarian aid to regional countries, it will spark a fire, the putting out of which would definitely be out of their hands." |
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