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| Saudi-led airstrikes target rebels a day after Yemen truce ends |
| 2015-05-19 |
| [LATIMES] Fierce new fighting across 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... and a wave of Saudi-led ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truceis not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefiredoesn't mean you have to stop shooting... that expired a day earlier. Aid agencies warned that the five-day hiatus had not allowed in nearly enough food, fuel and other supplies to meet the needs of the battered country's 25 million people. Reflecting the fear and frustration brought on by nearly two months of bombardment, protesters flooded the streets of the capital, Sana, shouting denunciations of 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... and the United States, which has provided logistical support to the Saudi-led coalition confronting Yemen's Shiite Moslem Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels. The cease-fire expired at 11 p.m. local time Sunday, and officials and witnesses said Residents and officials said apparent targets in Aden were Houthi positions, including the presidential palace. Other strikes hit northern Saada province, heavily damaging the bustling provincial capital's old city. Antiaircraft fire rattled Sana but no new bombardment was reported in the city. Pleas from the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... and humanitarian groups for an extension of the cease-fire have so far gone unheeded, but Yassin told the Rooters news agency that the renewed strikes would avoid the airport in Sana and the country's main seaports so that aid shipments could arrive by air and sea. |
| Posted by:Fred |