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| Saudi-led coalition says Yemen truce ends Saturday |
| 2016-01-03 |
| [SACBEE] The truce 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... between Iranian catspaws and a Saudi-led military coalition has formally ended, according 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... 's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... .Lemme see... Saturday's today, right? The truce technically came into effect on Dec. 15, 2015 as a mutual show of good faith during peace negotiations taking place in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... . But the truce never truly took hold on the ground in Yemen, with both sides ignoring it. The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said on Dec. 20 there were "numerous violations" of the cease-fire agreement from the very start. Yemen's conflict pits the internationally recognized government backed by a Saudi-led, U.S.-supported coalition against the rebels, known as Houthis, who are allied with a former president. Local affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group have also exploited Yemen's chaos to grab land and exercise influence. According to U.N. figures, the war in Yemen has killed at least 5,884 people since March, when fighting escalated after the Saudi-led coalition began launching |
| Posted by:Fred |