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| Fighting Engulfs Yemen's Taez after U.N. Talks Put Off | |
| 2015-05-26 | |
The festivities came a day after a U.N. official said a proposed peace conference for the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country had been postponed indefinitely. Witnesses said the fighting in several districts of Taez on Monday morning sparked panic among residents. The festivities, which erupted on Sunday and raged overnight, have killed at least 30 Houthis and allied forces, the local official told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said a provisional toll showed at least five loyalists of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi were also killed. For a second consecutive day, rebels and their allies targeted several Taez neighborhoods with rocket and tank fire, residents said. Medics and residents told AFP late Sunday the bombardment had killed 10 civilians and maimed 80. "There's a real massacre going on in Taez, the city that spearheaded the revolt" which caused the departure in early 2012 of president 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 supports the Huthis, resident Bassam al-Qadhi said. "Saleh has aligned himself with the rebels to take Dire Revenge," he added. Officials in neighboring Daleh province said pro-Hadi fighters had retaken several positions from the rebels, including a military camp, in dawn fighting. Clashes were ongoing mid-Monday, they said, especially at a now rebel-held base of the 33rd Armored Brigade. Pro-government forces have seized six tanks during the fighting, they said. Clashes were also reported in other southern provinces 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... on Monday, including Aden, Shabwa and Abyan ...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... It followed a day of intense raids by Saudi-led coalition warplanes targeting rebel arms depots and positions, witnesses said. The postponement of the planned U.N. peace conference came just four days before it had been due to open in Geneva. There had been growing uncertainty over who would attend the talks, and the postponement is a further blow to U.N. efforts to broker peace in a country where nearly 2,000 people have been killed since March. | |
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