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| Yemen's president calls for a 15-day cease-fire that would coincide with the withdrawal of Shiite rebel militias |
| 2015-08-23 |
| [YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemen's president is proposing a 15-day cease-fire that would coincide with the withdrawal of Shiite rebel militias from all government institutions and military installations and all cities and provinces -- even the province they call home. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's proposal, obtained Friday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, was given to the U.N. envoy for 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... in 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 capital on Thursday, and Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed was heading to Oman on Friday to meet with 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... representatives to discuss it, according to a U.N. diplomat. Yemen's government has expressed support for a cease-fire in the past, but this might be its first formal proposal for one. The proposal, dated Thursday, calls for the Houthi rebels and allied troops loyal to former 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... to immediately implement a U.N. Security Council resolution which demands an end to violence and a swift return to U.N.-led peace talks. Hadi's proposal comes after pro-government troops, backed by a Saudi-led coalition carrying out Yemen's government has repeatedly demanded that the Houthis withdraw. With government forces retaking territory and the Houthis on the defensive, it remains to be seen if the two sides will be more amenable to talking. An attempt at U.N.-brokered talks in Geneva in June failed. More than 4,000 people have been killed in the Arab world's poorest country since March, when the U.S.-backed coalition began launching |
| Posted by:Fred |