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| Report: Saudi to Raze Empty Villages on Yemen Border |
| 2015-04-06 |
| [AnNahar] 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... will raze 96 deserted border villages to prevent their use by infiltrators from neighboring Yemen, where the kingdom is leading air strikes on rebels, a report said Sunday. Ten villages have already been demolished since a Saudi-led military coalition began air strikes on Shiite Houthis on March 26, the Saudi-owned Al-Hayat newspaper reported. It cited the border guard chief in the area, Hassan Aqili, as saying that the move was to prevent the empty houses from turning into "a safe haven for traffickers and infiltrators". The 15,000 inhabitants were resettled following a 2009-2010 conflict that saw Houthis cross into Saudi Arabia from their stronghold in northern Yemen. The same rebels forced Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country to Saudi Arabia last month as they swept towards his southern refuge in Aden after seizing power in the capital. Three Saudi border guards have been rubbed out by gunfire from within 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... since Riyadh launched air raids against the Iran-backed rebels. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 KSA building a DMZ = buffer zone between Yemen Houthis + Shias living in oil-rich Eastern Saudi Arabia??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-06 21:04 |