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2017-08-27 Arabia
Clashes erupt between Houthis and Saleh loyalists in Sanaa
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sources told Al Arabiya that festivities took place in Sanaa between 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 ...
militias and the ousted Saleh forces, and confirmed that seven people were killed and several were maimed.

During the past week, the scene of conflict between the two parties of the coup reoccurred, and the military conflict developed between them. Houthi militias challenged the gathering of its main coup partner - the ousted 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 the Seventy Square in the center of the capital Sana’a by showing off its military force on Thursday evening, in the same square where the Popular Congress Party activities took place few hours after the ousted crowds left.

The Yemeni news agency under the control of the Houthis in Sanaa admitted the killing of two people from the so-called "People’s Committees" in the area of Hadda. This was attributed to an attack on a security checkpoint in the Mosbahi tour in Sanaa.

A security source said forces of the capital’s secretariat and central security intervened and exchange of fire was halted and the situation calmed down.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
confirmed statistics indicate the killing of five Houthi holy warriors and the falling of a number of maimed in an initial outcome.

Al Arabiya reported that Colonel Khaled Ahmad Zeid al-Razi, the director of the office of the deposed president’s son Ahmed, was killed during the festivities.

In a separate context, the Yemeni army announced yesterday, the death of two leaders of the Houthi militias among amid festivities in "Al-Jawf" governorate in the north.

The army said that the Houthi leader, Musleh Sarhan, and the Houthi cultural supervisor in the Marashy Directorate, Mohammed Dehan, were killed in battles in Ham area west of the Jawf.

He also reported that there are number of militias’ dead bodies in the field of the festivities, after their groups beat feet from the sites.

Earlier, a Yemeni military front man announced the death of seven Houthis during battles in the Ham mountain area in the Mtoon directorate.

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#1 Popcorn.
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#2 "Lets you and him fight"
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#3 Donna Summer and Mark Whalberg, two of Dorchester, MA's finest exports.
Posted by Raj 2017-08-27 12:45||   2017-08-27 12:45|| Front Page Top

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