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| Yemen rebuffs rebels' claim of Saudi air raids |
| 2009-08-29 |
| Yemen rebuffed claims by rebels that the airforce from neighbouring Saudi Arabia has been aiding the army in its offensive against rebels in the north of the country. "These fabricated claims are baseless. We have become familiar with such lies from those elements, as they overtly try to embroil our Saudi brothers in the confrontations," an unnamed official spokesman said in a statement carried by Saba state news agency early on Friday. The Zaidi rebels - also known as Huthis - had claimed that Saudi warplanes bombed districts in the rugged mountainous Saada province, near the Saudi border. "Saudi military aircraft executed several sorties on Thursday morning over the area of Malaheez and bombed the area before returning to Saudi Arabia," said a rebels' statement on Thursday. "We consider this action a flagrant intervention in Yemeni affairs... It is a continuation of the Saudi interference in the conflict, which has now got to the point of attacking Yemen (territory) directly," it added. |
| Posted by:Fred |