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| Air strike kills 16 members of Yemeni imam’s family |
| 2016-09-03 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] At least 16 members of the extended family of a Yemeni mosque imam were killed on Wednesday in an air strike on their family home in northern 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... by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, a Rooters witness, a medic and a resident said. It was the latest in a series of raids by the coalition, which is providing air support to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in his fight against Iran-allied Houthis who have seized much of the country since 2014. They said missiles struck a house of the imam, identified as Saleh Abu Zainah, in Saada, the capital of Saada province in northern Yemen, home of 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... group which hails from the Zaydi branch of Shi’ite Islam. The imam, his family, his two sons and their families, all died in the attack, including at least four children, they said. A front man for the Saudi-led coalition had no immediate comment on the report. Pictures taken by a Rooters photographer showed men digging up the body of a child from under the rubble. "The air raid happened in the morning and because the house was made of mud, it took us until noon to be able to dig the bodies out," said Nayef, a resident who helped remove the rubble to recover the bodies. A medic said rescue workers were concerned about fresh air strikes when they arrived at the scene and found aircraft still hovering overhead. |
| Posted by:Fred |