Pretty convenient when you can define "legitimate" any way you want.Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman made the remarks on Saturday, a day after attacks by Ansarullah fighters and their allied army units killed dozens of Saudi, Emirati, and Bahraini soldiers in Yemen's Ma'rib province.
The Yemeni official also said the number of Emirati troopers killed in the raids goes beyond 75, contradicting the UAE's official figure standing at 45.
The Emirati troops as well as five Bahraini soldiers were killed on Friday in an arms depot blast in al-Safer airport in Ma'rib, 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of the capital Sana'a, a source at the scene said. The Ansarullah fighters said the blast was caused by a rocket attack.
In a separate attack, at least 16 Saudi soldiers were killed in an ambush by Ansarullah fighters and their allied army units near the Mash'al base in 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...
's southwestern Jizan region. Riyadh has confirmed 10 of the fatalities.
Early on Sunday, Saudi bomber aircraft pounded the Yemeni capital Sana'a several times.
On Saturday, Yemeni forces launched missile attacks at several targets including a military camp in Jizan.
Later in the day, Saudi warplanes targeted the camps of internally displaced Yemenis in the northwestern Sa'ada province, killing at least eight people including women and kiddies.
| About the ten Saudi troops killed, Al Ahram reports: |
...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...
when 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews...
fighters attacked a weapons store on Friday, Saudi state-run Al Ekhbariya TV reported on Saturday on its Twitter account, quoting Brigadier-General Ahmed al-Asiri, the front man of the coalition.
Al Arabiya TV reported the same number of Saudi soldiers killed.