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| 9 Killed in Saudi Attacks in District of Saleh Brother's |
| 2015-06-15 |
| [al-Alam] Nine people were killed when Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed a district in the Yemeni capital Sanaa inhabited by relatives of ex-president 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... , residents and medics said. Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition struck Saturday positions in 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... as warring parties from the impoverished nation prepared for UN-sponsored Swiss talks, witnesses said. Air raids targeted central province of Dhamar, as well as air defence positions of allied troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, witnesses said.Saada were also hit. A wave of intensive overnight air strikes targeted capital and residences of people including Saleh former President of Yemen brother's home, south of Sanaa, witnesses said. 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... launched the air war on March 26, as former President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi refuge in the southern city of Aden. Hadi had fled the capital, which the Ansarallah seized unopposed in September, and was rushed to Saudi Arabia as the Huthis closed in on Aden. Clashes continued Saturday in the port city of Aden, as well as in nearby Daleh, and in the provinces of Shabwa 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... , where Saudi backed Rebels have been fighting advancing Ansarallah. |
| Posted by:Fred |