...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...
rebels as violence further escalated in the capital, Sanaa, following the liquidation of the country's former leader, former 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. He's dead now, killed by his Houthi allies...Hadi called for a "new page" in the battle against the Houthis in a speech carried live on 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 Al Arabiya TV late on Monday.
"Let's put our hands together to end the control of these criminal gangs and build a new united Yemen," the leader of Yemen's internationally recognised government said from Riyadh, where he lives in exile.
His predecessor, Saleh, who had ruled 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...for three decades before his overthrow in 2011, was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade and gun attack on his car at a checkpoint outside Sanaa.
The Houthis said Saleh was killed for "treason" after he cut ties with the rebels in favour of the Saudi-led coalition.
The Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
condemned Saleh's killing on Tuesday and branded the Houthis as a "terrorist organization".
"All means must be used to rid the Yemeni people of this nightmare," said Ahmed Abdul Gheit, who heads the pan-Arab bloc.