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| Aden Oil Refinery Ablaze as Yemen Rebels Shell Port |
| 2015-06-28 |
| [AnNahar] Fire erupted at Aden's oil refinery Saturday when rebels shelled the nearby port to prevent a Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i ship carrying aid for Yemen's devastated second city from docking, officials told Agence La Belle France Presse. "The rebels fired artillery rounds at the area and one hit an oil tank at the refinery, sparking a fire," said an official at the Aden Refinery Company. An AFP news hound saw flames raging as pillars of smoke billowed into the skies over the southern city. A government official told AFP the rebels had targeted a Qatari vessel carrying food supplies from Djibouti, a hub for Yemen-bound humanitarian aid, and that the attack forced it to turn back. Both the port and the refinery in Aden's Buraiqa district are controlled by pro-government fighters, and the area has seen fierce festivities between rival forces. The refinery has not been receiving any oil via the port, but it still has 1.2 million tonnes of crude in storage and also gas tanks. Coalition warplanes carried out "at least 15 air raids" across several parts of Aden on Saturday, a pro-Hadi military official said. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... five pro-government fighters and two non-combatants were killed in festivities rocking Aden on Saturday, medics and militia sources loyal to Hadi said. More than 2,600 people have been killed in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country since March, according to U.N. figures. Almost 80 percent of the population -- 20 million people -- need urgent humanitarian aid. The situation is particularly serious in Aden, where residents complain of food and water shortages and health officials warn of disease spreading. Earlier this month, a U.N.-chartered ship carrying humanitarian supplies bound for 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... was targeted by shelling as it approached Aden. In another southern province, Shabwa, rustics killed nine rebels in an attack on a troop carrier on Saturday, a military source close to the Huthis told AFP. Rebel forces comprise both Huthis and renegade troops loyal to former 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... . |
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