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| Yemen seizes weapons vessel with Iranian crew |
| 2009-10-27 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen's navy seized on Monday an Iranian ship loaded with anti-tank weapons off its north-west coast in the Red Sea, an Al Arabiya correspondent in Sanaa reported, citing informed government sources. The sources added that five Iranians and one Indian aboard the ship were detained and immediately taken to the capital Sanaa for investigation. The ship was reportedly heading to Yemen's northern coast to unload its weapons' shipment in an area where it could be temporally hidden before being transported to the Houthi rebels in the Saada province. The six-member crew aboard the ship were weapons experts who were sent to Yemen to replace other Iranians fighting alongside the Houthi rebels and who are thought to be wounded in battles with the government forces. Yemen has repeatedly accused the Muslim Shiite-run Iran of backing the Shiite Zaidi rebels who took arms agains the Arab state's government in 2004. The conflict between the two intensified in August when government forces launched Operation Scorched Earth against the rebels after several failed attempts to reach a peaceful deal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 You can have your antitank weapons. I think temporally hiding something is COOL. I mean, nobody would ever find it. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2009-10-27 21:27 |
| #2 There is the proof of the Iranians weapons support of the shiite. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-10-27 11:25 |
| #1 Many of the reports we've been getting here lately about Yemen come from IranPressTV, especially the ones about the Yemeni government killing innocent civilians. It's kinda funny how this report from Al Arabiya seems to take a somewhat different point of view. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-10-27 11:22 |