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| Houthis blow up delegate's home |
| 2015-06-18 |
| [NATION.PK] 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... fighters in central 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... today blew up the home of a senior politician while he was in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... as a member of the exiled government's delegation to peace talks, residents said. The destruction of member of parliament Abdel-Aziz Jubari's house in Dhamar city coincided with more air strikes by Saudi-led forces on military targets throughout Yemen in support of the government. In Geneva, the U.N.-sponsored talks between the warring factions went into a second day. A delegate said on Tuesday the parties had agreed on the need for a ceasefire but others said a deal was still far off. Dhamar residents said that the Houthis, who had taken over Jubari's house in April, dynamited the building early in the morning. Yemeni websites published picture of its collapsed ceiling on top of a pile of rubble. Jubari, who is deputy head of the delegation sent to Geneva by ousted President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, said he was shocked when he heard the news. "This is regrettable that people's manners and behaviors can reach this point," Jubari told in Geneva. "Of course my house is not the only house in Yemen...a lot of people's homes and properties have been targeted in an unbelievable way." Foreign Minister Reyad Yassin Abdulla, the head of the government delegation said: "It is in this spirit of Dire Revenge that they are dealing with all the Yemeni people and we cannot remain silent on this." Houthi officials were not immediately available to comment. |
| Posted by:Fred |