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| Blasts rock Sanaa as Houthi weapons depot hit |
| 2015-06-02 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Violent blasts rocked Sanaa after coalition strikes target 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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... arms depots east of the Yemeni capital, Al Arabiya News Channel reported. The strikes on the Mount Noqum base on the eastern outskirts of Sanaa sent munitions and shrapnel flying into an adjacent residential neighborhood, witnesses told Agence La Belle France-Presse. Four Saudi-led coalition strikes also targeted Houthi militias in Sanah and northern Daleh in the crisis-torn country. Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope. Jack!Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... U.N.-chartered ship loaded with 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 the country's main southern port of Aden on Sunday, an official said. The provincial government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, blamed Houthi rebels who control several neighborhoods in Yemen's second city for not allowing the ship to dock at Aden's port, which is controlled by pro-government fighters. "The Huthis fired shells at a ship chartered by the U.N. that was carrying 7,000 tons of food... when it was within a nautical mile of Aden's port," the official said, adding that the vessel itself was not hit. "The ship was forced to turn back and by night time it was about five to eight nautical miles from Aden," he added. According to the official, the vessel had set off from Djibouti, which the U.N. uses as a hub for humanitarian aid bound for Yemen. The incident was confirmed by a port official, who also declined to be identified. "The Houthi fire forced the ship to turn back as it approached the port," the port official said. He accused the rebels of "imposing a food blockade on areas of Aden under the control of the Popular Resistance Committees", which are a collection of pro-government fighters, Sunni tribes and southern separatists. |
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