[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A private yacht with three Russians and two Egyptians on board which had been reported missing in the Red Sea off 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...
turned up in Djibouti on Thursday after what the owner said was an attack by unknown button men.
| Pirates? |
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. Until the accession of King Salman the place was under the thumb of Wahhabi holy men and was the driving force behind Salafist terrorism world-wide. Western intelligence agencies, even the dumb ones, were wise to this from at least September 12th, 2001, but politicians were reluctant to upset the international applecart. Once we started assassinating people instead of invading them the Saudis quietly folded the
Death to Infidelstent, did some assassinating of their own, started modernizing, and pretended that Osama bin Laden thing had never happened...
near the Yemeni border before appearing to go missing, owner Dmitriy Chuguevskiy had told Rooters.
"According to the people on board ... they were going in international waters off Yemen. They were attacked from the Yemen side, shot at ... but they managed to escape even though there was substantial damage to the yacht," Chuguevskiy said on Thursday.
Several vessels have been attacked in recent years off the coast of Yemen which has been torn apart by an eight-year conflict between the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militia, which controls north Yemen and the coast near where the ship is believed to have been, and an Arab-led military coalition which backs Yemen’s internationally recognized government.
| Or possibly not pirates. How exciting. |
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
before finally making its way today to Djibouti, said Chuguevskiy, a Russian-Italian national based in the United Arab Emirates.
The ship had not been fitted with the standard AIS ship tracking system which shipping data trackers use, and its disappearance had also been reported by the Russian embassy in Saudi Arabia.