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| Yemen Ousted Gov't Says Ceasefire to Be Extended by Week | |
| 2015-12-22 | |
...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... will be extended for seven days after it officially expires Monday, the head of the ousted government negotiation team said Sunday at UN-brokered talks in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... "The truce will be extended for seven more days and will then be automatically extended if it is respected by the other party," Foreign Minister in the exiled government, Abdel Malak al-Mekhlafi, told news hounds in Bern, referring to the Yemeni army and the popular committees who are confronting the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab impoverished country. The decision, at the request of runaway president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, was communicated to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , Mekhlafi said, noting that its automatic renewal had been part of the army and the committees' commitment to respect Security Council Resolution 2216. The resolution, adopted in April, calls on the revolutionary committees allies, to withdraw from territory captured last year including the capital Sanaa, and to lay down their weapons. Mekhlafi also called for the release of five prisoners held by the revolutionaries including ousted Defense Minister Major-General Mahmoud al-Subaihi. The revolutionaries cleansed Sanaa on September 2014 from al-Qaeda-linked ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s have since that time carried several suicide kabooms across Yemen, especially in Sanaa, targeting Mosques and popular markets. Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians. Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to runaway Hadi who is a close ally to 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... However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Yemeni army, backed by the committees has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country, especially the country's south, from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias. | |
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