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Saudi missiles hit Yemen border areas
2009-11-13
Houthi fighters say Saudi Arabia fired scores of missiles on Yemeni villages during over a dozen overnight airstrikes.

More than 145 missiles have been shot at Yemini towns in over 15 separate attacks on areas near the border with Saudi Arabia, the Shia movement said on Thursday.

Saudi forces have been carrying out attacks on Yemen's Houthis since early November.

The Saudi Defense Ministry has said it will keep up its air strikes until the Houthis retreat from the border between the two countries.

Riyadh has also imposed a naval blockade on northern Yemen's Red Sea coast, saying the siege is to stop weapons from reaching the anti-government fighters.

The Houthis took arms against the Sana'a rule in 2004 in protest at the Sunni-dominated government's repression and discrimination against the Shia minority in Yemen.

The fighters have repeatedly accused Saudi Arabia of collaborating with the Yemeni government in its military crackdown on the opposition movement based in the north of the improvised Arab country.

The United States has also joined the conflict by signing a military agreement under which it will provide Sana'a forces with intelligence and training to quell the Houthis.

Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of employing al-Qaeda mercenaries and terrorists to help the army with its ongoing offensive against the Shia fighters.

The Operation Scorched Earth which began in August is believed to have forced over 55,000 Yemenis to leave their houses.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Alert the Vatican, time for the Christian Knights to be reformed and ride once again.

I'm working on it Jim....
Posted by: Ptah   2009-11-13 22:43  

#5  The United States has also joined the conflict by signing a military agreement

US says no military cooperation deal with Yemen
The Pentagon said on Friday the United States had not signed a military cooperation deal with Yemen, refuting a report from Sanaa's official news agency. "There were no agreements signed," spokesman Bryan Whitman told AFP.

But US military officers had recently held two days of talks with their Yemeni counterparts, he said. On October 4, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, Vice Admiral William McRaven, met Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to discuss cooperation against Al-Qaeda, the US embassy in Yemen said.
Posted by: ed   2009-11-13 12:54  

#4  I think a better word than "Theocracy" would be "Hypocracy" they aren't religious by any god's standards I know of.

However another Deity, Satan, qualifies in all respects.

Alert the Vatican, time for the Christian Knights to be reformed and ride once again.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-11-13 11:59  

#3  Lets see here now. In collaboration with a western super power a government is supposedly repressing a Muslim minority. There are missiles fired on villages. In addition, there is a naval blockadeÂ…or dare we sayÂ…a siege.
Paging Mr. GoldstoneÂ… Paging Mr. Goldstone! WhatÂ’s that you sayÂ…the government is actually an Islamic Theocracy? Never mindÂ…sorry to interrupt your lunch Mr. Goldstone.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2009-11-13 09:07  

#2  The United States has also joined the conflict by signing a military agreement under which it will provide Sana'a forces with intelligence and training to quell the Houthis.

Hmm, I wonder which side Nidal Malik Hasan is on in this conflict?
Posted by: Gladys   2009-11-13 04:14  

#1  Green helmet?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-11-13 04:09  

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