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| Tehran 'arming Houthis' |
| 2015-06-07 |
| [ARABNEWS] Houthis are receiving arms shipments from Iran, said Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Assiri, consultant in the office of the defense minister. In a telephonic interview with Al-Arabiya channel on Saturday, Al-Assiri said the 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... militias and forces loyal to ousted Yemeni 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... have, in their possession, nearly 300 Scud ballistic missiles. "They seized these weapons from the Yemeni Army," he said. Al-Assiri's statement came in the aftermath of 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... 's successful interception of a Scud missile that was launched toward Khamis Mushayt by the Houthis on Friday. Saudi troops used a Patriot missile battery to intercept the missile. "Thanks to Allah, it was intercepted by the Royal Saudi Defense Forces by two Patriot missiles," said a statement from the coalition command center. The coalition forces destroyed the rocket launcher whose location was identified south of Saada. "The coalition forces involved in the anti-Houthi operation do not exclude the possibility of more such attempts," said Al-Assiri. "We are facing a brutal enemy which does not hesitate in attacking and killing civilians," he said. "Our forces are fully ready to neutralize these missiles, and this is what happened late last night (Friday)," he said. Al-Assiri explained that since the start of the military operations, the enemy militias were divided into two parts, the first was the Houthi fighters whose mission was to engage with the Saudi ground troops at the Saudi borders with Yemen, and the second was the forces supporting deposed President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... inside Yemen. "What happened on Friday on the border was that the two parts joined forces and launched a desperate attack on our borders," he said. He asserted that the military operations against Saleh and the Houthi militias will continue. |
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