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| United Arab Emirates, Bahrain lose 45 troops on black day for Yemen coalition |
| 2015-09-05 |
| [ABC.NET.AU] The United Arab Emirates says 45 of its soldiers engaged in a Saudi-led campaign against Iranian catspaws in 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... have been killed in an accidental kaboom that the In what was the deadliest day for the coalition since it was formed in March, Bahrain said five of its soldiers guarding the Saudi border with Yemen were also killed. The Yemeni government said an "accidental kaboom" at an arms depot at a military base in the eastern province of Marib killed the Emiratis, but the rebels said their fighters fired a rocket that caused the blast. Coalition ally Bahrain said five of its soldiers were killed in southern 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... where they had been posted to help defend the border with war-wracked Yemen. It did not give a precise location. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Yemen's exiled presidency said the Bahrainis died in the same blast that killed the Emiratis. Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, head of the UAE armed forces, underlined in a tweet his country's "determination" to continue supporting the Yemenis against "injustice and aggression". |
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