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| 'US fighter jets attack Yemeni fighters' | |
| 2009-12-15 | |
| Yemen's Houthi fighters say the US fighter jets have launched 28 attacks on the northwestern province of Sa'ada. The US has used modern fighter jets and bombers in its offensive against the Yemen fighters, Houthis said in a statement.
The development comes as The Daily Telegraph on Sunday reported that the US has sent its special forces to Yemen to train its army. The reports of the US military intervention in Yemen come as Saudi Arabia is also lending full support to the Yemeni government's crackdown on Yemen's Houthi minority. Saudi Arabia has launched cross-border ground attacks against Yemeni fighters and its fighter jets have reportedly dropped phosphorus bombs on Yemen's northern areas. International aid agencies and some UN bodies including United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have voiced concern over the dire condition of the Yemeni civilians who have become the main victims of the conflict in the country. The United Nations which according to its charter is set up "to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace" has failed to adopt any concrete measures to help end the bloody war. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Why would we bomb Iranian puppets when we should be bombing Iranians? Because bombing the Iranians would be an effective use of the military, improve morale, and be in the interest of the US. our current leader is against all of those things. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-12-15 20:14 |
| #5 Might need to get the Morton girl out here with her umbrella. But if it's true I have just one question: Why would we bomb Iranian puppets when we should be bombing Iranians? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-12-15 11:53 |
| #4 We have plenty of obsolete planes. How else do you think the Air Guard stays in the air? They're certainly not planning on giving them F-35s anytime soon. But I was wondering how they'd be able to tell US F-15s from Saudi F-15s from the ground. Unless, you know, the occasional F-15 smacks into an inconvenient mountain-peak. Those were probably flown by Saudis. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-12-15 10:31 |
| #3 This is Iran trying to raise support for the Houthis. See above article re: special forces. The only true element in this story is that Saudi has US made planes and US trained pilots. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-12-15 06:34 |
| #2 Actually, it wuz the Jooz. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-12-15 02:05 |
| #1 I got the impression the Sauds have a fair number of very modern AC on hand. Why would they need us for air support? |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-12-15 00:35 |