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Arabia
Yemen Turned into Holocaust of UAE Tanks, Soldiers
2015-08-16
[ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army and the Popular Committee units destroyed during the last three days several LeClerc-type tanks used by the invading Emirati forces 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...
by firing the Russian-made Kornet missiles, Al-Manar correspondent reported.

Military sources told Al-Manar news hound that a "major Emirati holocaust" took place in Karsh and Al-Mseimir regions in south-east province of 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
.

Another massacre of UAE tanks occurred in Al-Nasr camp in Khor-Maksar region of Aden city, and on the Al-Alam road located between Aden and Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
provinces in the south, as well as inside Abyan city.

LeClerc is a French-made main battle tank known as AMX-56 LeClerc, and the UAE is largely dependent on it in attacks on Yemen.

The sources also revealed that losses of the Emirati forces during the last 72 hours were more than 32 armored vehicles, 14 tanks and 23 military vehicles, in addition to 38 soldiers and 8 officers killed.

Al-Manar Website learned that the UAE claimed only half of the casualties.

"Special operations unit of the army and the Committees are working within units behind the lines of deployment of the Emirati invading forces in the cities of Aden, Abyan and Lahj," the sources elaborated.

"The major surprises are coming soon and will be earth-shattering. The enemy will only enjoy a defeat that will rupture his army," the sources in the national Yemeni military forces vowed.

The United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
has lately declared its highest-level humanitarian emergency in Yemen as 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...
continues its deadly Arclight airstrikes against the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.

Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen since March 26 to bring runaway president Abed-Rabbu Mansour Hadi back to power.

The Arclight airstrikes have so far claimed the lives of more than 5,302 civilians, mostly women and kiddies.
Posted by:Fred

#7  The risk of direct US intervention in the Gulf just went up, as this outcome is likely to increase the risk of mil confrontation between new OWG US Co-Superpower sibling IRAN, + IRAN RIVAL SUNNI KSA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-08-16 21:41  

#6  Penthouse accepts goat stories now?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-08-16 17:04  

#5  Hizbollah basement dwellers sure can write fantasy screeds. It must be from all that practice writing to Dear Penthouse.
Posted by: Betty Hitler2611   2015-08-16 14:48  

#4  Al Manar is a mouthpiece for the Hizbollah terrorist group or Iranian Puppets...notice who is the "martyrs"...their human shield...a common muslim tactic of hiding behind baby carriage...does not seem to work fighting other muslims...
Posted by: Heriberto Henbane5351   2015-08-16 13:36  

#3  Tribal army - with tribal results. Its not the gear, its the training, tactics, and competence of the personnel.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-08-16 13:27  

#2  ..it's a jobs program, though the only diversity involved usually is of what sub-clan is being bought off.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-16 09:44  

#1  Are they hampered by ROEs, or are the incompetent like most arab armies?
Posted by: chris   2015-08-16 08:15  

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