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2019-11-19 Arabia
Houthi pirates forces seize vessel off the coast of Yemen
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militia have confirmed that they’ve seized a vessel in the Red Sea, and said that the ship will be released if it is confirmed that it belongs to South Korea, Rooters has reported.

On Monday, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a Houthi leader, tweeted that the group’s ’coasties’ had seized the vessel, and would release it following the completion of legal proceedings related to the violation of Yemen’s territorial waters. al-Houthi said the safety of the crew had been assured.

Earlier, the Saudi Press Agency reported, citing a Saudi-led military coalition front man, that the militia had hijacked and seized a vessel towing a South Korean drilling rig in the Red Sea on Sunday night. According to some reports, the vessel was the Saudi-flagged Rabigh 3 tugboat.

The seizure was said to have taken place in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, separating southwestern Yemen from Djibouti. The coalition front man said the Houthi attack threatened ’vital shipping routes’ used to ship Middle Eastern oil and Asian goods to Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Posted by Fred 2019-11-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
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