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2016-07-27 Arabia

Saudi ramps up shelling on Houthi targets

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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...
on Tuesday ramped up its shelling on 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 ...
targets near the border a day after five of its soldiers were killed in the frontier province of Najran, the Arabic website of Al Arabiya News Channel.

The five soldiers had been killed in eight hours of fighting when the Saudis confronted "enemy elements of gangs who tried to infiltrate in several places" in the Najran area, the state-run SPA news agency reported a ministry front man as saying.

Houthi sites along the Saudi-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...
border were targeted by the coalition, in which dozens of the Iranian-backed militias were killed.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster...
sources in the southern city of Taiz told Al Arabiya that fighters from the Popular Resistance who are loyal to the Saudi-backed government of President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi seized control of a mountain area near Taiz on Monday evening, after violent festivities with the Houthi militias.

Dozens of Houthi members were killed during the festivities, including one of their leaders Alawi Abdullah Abdul Ghani al-Junaid, and dozens were maimed. Another leader named Qanaf al-Soufi was also captured.

Eyewitnesses reported that Houthi militias had sent dozens of rockets and missiles targeting villages and neighborhoods situated at the bottom of the mountain.

The resistance has also repelled an attack led by the Houthis on the eastern side of the mountain. Violent festivities took place in different towns overlooking Taiz, where Houthis are trying to seize control of the city.

A military source said that Arab-led coalition aircraft bombed the coastal defense camp in al-Mukha west of Taiz. Smoke was seen rising from the camp.

The source added that the militias suffered from dozens of casualties and injuries targeted by the bombing in the vicinity of Mukha, in the north of the Bab el-Mandeb strait.

The coalition aircrafts also intensified their air raids on several fronts in the capital Sanaa and the northern province of Saada, bombing Houthi sites and areas controlled by forces loyal to ousted former leader 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...
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Posted by Fred 2016-07-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 The Houthi revolt is dated from 2004 when Saada, the Houthi homeland, literally exploded. The result was an insurgency led by Hussaain Badreddin al-Houthi the Zaidi Shia religious leader. Before a cease-fire was reached in 2007 thousands had been killed and a quarter-million Yemenis displaced. The cease-fire was followed by a tenuous 2008 peace agrement that no one respected. When the Houthis sought to gain control of their Saada homeland there resulted in the displacement of as many as 80,000 Yemenis --mostly Sunni Muslims. This time, given Houthi intransigence Saudi Arabia will not be satisfied until Saada is leveled and the Shiites scattered.

Posted by Whavise Wheque2596 2016-07-27 13:06|| 2016-07-27 13:06|| Front Page Top

#2 sounds good

Posted by Frank G 2016-07-27 13:24|| 2016-07-27 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Works for me, WW.

Or, the other way around. I'm not picky.

Posted by Barbara 2016-07-27 15:31|| 2016-07-27 15:31|| Front Page Top

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