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| Yemen cries for help |
| 2014-09-29 |
| [ARABNEWS] If you regularly watch television or read newspapers for news of the Middle East, you would most probably never see or read much about Yemen. The small country at the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, with no huge mineral resources, just does not appear much on the radar screens of the western media, despite the country being the home of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), possibly one of the biggest threats to the United States. It is therefore unfortunate that the alarming takeover of the Yemeni capital Sanaa by 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 Americatm, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels over the past weekend barely made a blip in the western media. All western attention is currently focused on the bombing campaign by the US and its allies of the Islamic State |
| Posted by:Fred |