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| Hizbullah Denies Party Member Killed in Yemen | |
| 2015-04-12 | |
| [AnNahar] Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... denied on Saturday media reports that any of its members had been killed in 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... where a Saudi-led coalition is stepping up air raids on allies of Iran-backed rebels.
The terse statement added that these reports are "totally baseless." But it stopped short of confirming whether any of its members are fighting in Yemen. Last month, a Gulf diplomatic official said that according to estimates, there are 5,000 Iranians, Hizbullah and Iraqi militia on the ground in Yemen. Hizbullah is now militarily involved in Syria, where it is bolstering the embattled regime, and reportedly in Iraq. A months-long rebellion by Shiite Huthi fighters in Yemen escalated into a regional conflict last month, when the coalition led by 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... began conducting air strikes on rebel-held territory. Hizbullah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has stressed in a speech that Saudi Arabia will be roundly "defeated" in its campaign, which he called "unjust" and "illegal." According to al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... daily Saturday, several Hizbullah fighters had been killed in Yemen. Sources told the newspaper that Hizbullah's involvement in battles in Sanaa is "possible because several of its fighters and experts, who hold the Lebanese nationality, were in Yemen's Saada before the rebels seized swathes of territory in Yemen since they entered Sanaa last September. | |
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