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| Air Strikes and Clashes Shatter Yemen Truce | |
| 2015-07-29 | |
..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truceis not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefiredoesn't mean you have to stop shooting... 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... has failed to take hold after Saudi-led warplanes resumed raids Tuesday on rebels, who clashed with loyalists, military sources said. Iran, which backs the Shiite Houthis, accused its Sunni regional rival Riyadh of "playing with fire and with the ceasefire". An international rights group, meanwhile, urged the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... to investigate air strikes last week that killed scores of civilians, calling them an "apparent war crime". The five-day truce that began on Monday was unilaterally declared by the pro-government Arab coalition to allow the delivery of desperately needed relief supplies. But the coalition, which began its air campaign against the Shiite Houthis and their allies in late March, had said it also reserved the right to strike against any military movement by the bad boys. Air strikes targeted rebels north of Aden, Yemen's second city, most of which was recaptured by loyalists last week after four months of ferocious fighting, military sources said. Raids also struck rebels in nearby restive Lahj ... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement province, where forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi have tightened the noose on bully boyz in the strategic Al-Anad airbase. Three air strikes targeted a rebel convoy near Sabr, north of Aden, where loyalists had advanced over the past days, military sources said. Other raids hit a building occupied by bully boyz in Jaawala -- also north of Aden -- and an overnight strike hit rebels in Marib east of Sanaa, witnesses said. Fighting around Aden has killed 28 people since Monday, among them 22 rebels, two civilians and two pro-Hadi southern fighters, city health chief Al-Khader Laswar said. On Monday, coalition warplanes mistakenly hit positions of pro-government forces in Lahj, killing 12 people and wounding 30, military sources and witnesses said. Iran's deputy foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, accused Riyadh Tuesday of stirring regional unrest. "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... , by committing a strategic error in attacking Yemen, is playing with fire and today is playing with the ceasefire," Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? quoted him as saying. "The continued use of force in Yemen highlights the lack of security and promotes terrorism in the region," Amir-Abdollahian said. | |
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