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| Saudi-Led Warplanes Pound Rebels in South Yemen |
| 2015-05-01 |
| [AnNahar] A Saudi-led coalition pressed on with air strikes Thursday against Iranian catspaws in south 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... where fierce festivities raged between the forces of Evil and southern pro-government fighters, local sources said. Warplanes hit Huthi rebel positions in the main southern city of Aden, in the districts of Khor Maksar and Dar Saad, helping pro-government forces to retake positions, sources among the southern fighters said. Eight people were killed in overnight festivities in Aden, including five pro-government fighters and three civilians, according to the city's health chief Al-Khader Laswar. He said 44 others were maimed. Details of losses on the rebel side were not available. Shiite Huthi fighters backed by troops loyal to former strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... had made advances in Aden, which is now defended by local militia dubbed "popular resistance" units that have sided with forces loyal to embattled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. 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... assembled a multi-country coalition last month that launched attacks on the rebels following a request by Hadi, who has since fled Aden to Riyadh. Although the coalition said it had halted its air campaign on April 21, strikes have continued to pound rebel positions throughout Yemen. Overnight raids targeted Huthis in the southern provinces of restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement and Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , southern fighters said. Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... meanwhile raged between the local militia and rebel forces in Kirsh, a town linking Lahj with the central city of Taez, leaving casualties from both sides, local officials said. Rebel forces used tanks to shell residential areas in Kirsh as Arab coalition planes dropped arms to pro-Hadi forces, the officials said. Residents also reported fighting in the southern city of Daleh. |
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