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| Houthi, Yemeni forces capture several sites inside Saudi Arabia |
| 2016-09-07 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] 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... forces, backed by the Yemeni Republican Guard, seized a number of sites 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 Jizan Region after a violent confrontation with the Arab Coalition on Tuesday. According to al-Masdar’s 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... War correspondent Tony Toh, the Houthi forces and their allies captured the villages of al-Qarn and al-Safina in the al-Khabuah area of the Jizan. In addition to seizing the aforementioned villages in the Jizan Region, the Houthi forces and Yemeni Republican Guard also captured the al-Dafiniyah site that is located in the contested al-Khabuah area. With their recent setbacks in the Jizan Region, the Saudi-led Coalition has been forced to increase the number of armed personnel they have in the southern part of their country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 No. Those forces are in addition to the military. |
| Posted by: Glanter Trotsky5797 2016-09-07 20:42 |
| #2 Does that 300K total include their militia and police, etc? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-09-07 18:18 |
| #1 Saudi Arabia spends 25% of its national budget on the military. (Nearly $100 billion annually). Its army totals about 300,000 men, but its fighting ability is very limited. In its war in Yemen it depends on artillery and aircraft to do its fighting,, and while the airforce can destroy the Houthi homeland it seems powerless to staunch the Houthi invasions of Jizan. |
| Posted by: Glanter Trotsky5797 2016-09-07 09:36 |