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Qatar sends 1,000 ground troops to Yemen conflict: al Jazeera
2015-09-08
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
has sent 1,000 ground troops to Yemen, Doha-based Al Jazeera television said, escalating Gulf Arab intervention in Yemen's war ahead of a planned offensive against Iranian-backed Houthis holding the capital Sanaa.

Qatari pilots had already joined months of Saudi-led air strikes on 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, which seized Sanaa a year ago and then advanced across much of the country, forcing President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi into exile in March.

Military sources told Rooters that Qatari troops were on their way to 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 preparing to join a new push on Houthi positions in Sanaa. They told Rooters the Qatari force had not yet entered the Arabian Peninsula country.

But a regional Yemeni official in oil-producing Marib province east of Sanaa said the Qatari contingent had already "crossed the al-Wadia border post" between 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...
and Yemen and was heading to Marib - where Hadi loyalists have been preparing for the thrust toward Sanaa.

Saudi-owned al Arabiya satellite network also said Qatari and Saudi reinforcements had crossed the frontier.

The first reported involvement of Qatari ground forces in Yemen coincided with an intensification of the conflict a few days after a rocket strike in Marib that killed dozens of soldiers including Saudis and Emiratis.

Saudi coalition forces on Sunday carried out repeated air raids on Houthi targets and allied troops loyal 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...
in apparent retaliation.

Saudi-led warplanes on Monday renewed strikes on Houthi targets across Yemen and Houthi-run media said the raids killed at least 12 people, including women and kiddies, in the central province of Ibb.

It was not immediately possible to independently verify the report.
Posted by:Fred

#3  * WORLD NEWS > [Yahoo Daily News] NUMBER OF SAUDI-LED COALITION TROOPS IN YEMEN NOW AT 10,000 [plus]: AL-JAZEERA.

Iff the KSA Colaition desires to ensure that the Iran-backed Anti-Govt Houthis are defeated once-n-forever, IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IFF THE US' OWG CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLING IRAN WILL ALLOW THE KSA COALITION TO DO SO.

And as Iran's Co-Superpower "Sibling", DITTO THE US = ANTI-US US GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA, ETAL. TO ALLOW THE KSA COALITION TO DEFEAT THE HOUTHIS???

Strange times indeed.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-09-08 23:13  

#2  The problem Iran has in Yemen is how does it reinforce the Houthi as long as the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are patrolled by KSA and forces. Bear in mind, as Iran does, that the US presence in Qatar, Oman, the drone base in southern Saudi Arabia and Djibouti (at least in this case) is not for show.
Posted by: Clomp Omagum5939   2015-09-08 11:05  

#1  More angst for IRAN vee nemesis Base-Too-Far QATAR.

Again, now that Iran is a OWG Co-Superpower sibling of the US, + as such a SSSSHHHHHH...
CCCCCCCCCC BFF + Quasi-Ally of the US, West agz the ISIS/ISIL + AQ Boyz, PROLLY SAFE TO SAY THAT A US-IRAN WAR CAN STILL OCCUR AS A DIRECT, OPEN CONFRONTATION BETWEEN IRAN + ONE OR MORE MAJOR US ME ALLY E.G. THE KSA.

Right now, both Iran + the KSA are still using proxies in Yemen or otherwise avoiding direct military clashes between their respective Armed Forces - THIS CAN EASILY CHANGE FOR THE WORSE IFF THE ISIS/ISIL ANDOR AL-NUSRA DECIDE TO KEEP
ESCALATING AGAIN AND AGAIN.

KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.

Its only 09/2015 - we still have the rest of this year, and most or all of next year 2016, for the proverbial SHTF.

AGAIN PART II, UNTIL OWG-NWO IS PERMANENTLY + IRREVOCABLY SET-UP-N-ENTRENCHED, THINGYS WILL CONTINUE TO INTENTIONALLY GET WORSE BEFORE THEY GET BETTER.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-09-08 00:41  

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