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Arabia
New conflict looms in Aden as Saudi Arabia demands UAE-backed forces hand over airport
2022-11-06
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] 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...
has given an ultimatum to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), demanding it to hand over its positions at Aden International Airport to a force loyal to the Saudis.

According to Southern media sources, Saudi forces had asked the STC militia stationed at the airport to evacuate their positions and hand them over to a security force they had trained on their territory over the past two years.

Saudi armoured vehicles arrived at the airport to implement the decision, but the STC militia refused to budge, and even and brought in reinforcements, the sources said .

The same sources pointed to the deployment of gunnies belonging to the leader of the so-called Southern Resistance® led by Abdul Nasser al-Ba’wa "Abu Hammam" in civilian clothes in the vicinity of the airport and the main streets in the district of Khormaksar, in conjunction with a similar deployment in the vicinity of the presidential palace of al- Ma’ashiq as well as in Mualla and Tawahi districts.
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Aden International Airport: 2016-02-27 UAE troop pullout from Yemen reports rejected
Aden International Airport: 2016-01-08 Aden airport handed over to Yemeni forces
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