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| Saudi-led strikes hit Yemen's Aden as peace talks fail | |
| 2015-06-21 | |
| [DAWN] Saudi-led warplanes launched dawn raids Saturday against sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, the military said, hours after peace talks in Geneva ended without agreement. At least 15 air strikes rocked the northern, eastern and western approaches to Aden, said a pro-government military source. "The objective is to close the noose around the 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels in Aden and assist the popular resistance committees," loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, the source said. He said the rebels shelled several Aden neighbourhoods, killing four people and wounding several others, a toll confirmed by hospital officials. The violence came hours after the UN's special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced Friday in Geneva that talks between the warring sides ended without agreement. "I won't beat around the bush. There was no kind of agreement reached," the Mauritanian diplomat told news hounds in the Swiss city. The rebels, backed by fighters loyal to ousted 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... , have overrun much of the Sunni-majority country, challenging the government's legitimacy and prompting Abedrabbo to flee to 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... . A coalition led by the oil-rich Gulf nation has carried out air strikes against the Houthis and their allies since March 26.
The kaboom in Sanaa, which is under the control of Iran-backed Shiite Houthis, went off outside the Kobbat al-Mehdi mosque as Shiite Moslems emerged from midday prayers, witnesses and security sources said. As well as the two dead, another six people were maimed in the blast, according to medical officials. The bombing, which comes as Moslems observe the holy fasting month of Ramadan, caused damage to the entrance of the mosque and shattered the windows of a nearby house, an Agence La Belle France Presse photographer reported. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest in a series that has targeted Sanaa, which the Houthis seized in September last year. On Wednesday at least 31 people were killed and dozens maimed in five simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group at Shiite mosques and offices in Sanaa. | |
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