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| Car bomb explodes in Sanaa near Houthi mosque, 2 dead |
| 2015-06-22 |
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] IS said it was behind a boom-mobile that went kaboom!in Yemen's capital Sanaa Saturday near the Qiba al-Mahdi mosque, killing two people and wounding six others, witnesses and a security source told Rooters. The group said in a statement published on bad boy Twitter accounts that the attack was targeting the 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... militia, whose fighters have used the mosque, located in the old city of Sanaa. On Wednesday the Sunni Moslem jihadi group grabbed credit for four boom-mobiles that detonated near mosques used by the Houthis and the group's headquarters in Sanaa, killing two and injuring around 60 people. The Houthis, who are mainly drawn from the Shiite Zaydi sect and are considered heretics by ISIS, took control of Sanaa in September, a move that culminated in a messy civil war and months of ...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... -led coalition. U.N. sponsored talks in Geneva between Yemen's warring parties ended on Friday without a deal. The Houthis are allied to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , who still has the loyalty of much of the army. They are fighting President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi, who is exiled in Riyadh, as well as southern separatists, tribal factions and other political groups. Two coalition air raids early on Saturday hit the al-Dulaimi air base near Sanaa's international airport, while several others targeted Saada in northern 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... and areas near the border with Saudi Arabia, witnesses and the Houthis said. In Marib, a region east of Sanaa contested in fighting for the past three months, 15 Houthis and four tribal fighters were killed in festivities Saturday morning, tribal sources told Rooters. |
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