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2024-01-17 Arabia
U.S. to relist Yemen's Houthis as specially designated global terrorists, AP sources say
[PBS.ORG] The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed 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...
rebels in 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...
as specially designated global terrorists, according to two people familiar with the White House decision and a U.S. official.

The move comes as the Houthis have launched dozens of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The group says it has attacked the ships in response to Israel’s military operations in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
in the aftermath of Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The three people familiar with the decision were not authorized to comment and requested anonymity to discuss the matter ahead of the expected formal announcement. The administration is expected to make the announcement on Wednesday, the U.S. official said.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
delisted the Houthis as both foreign terrorist organizations and as specially designated global gunnies in February 2021 as the administration sought to make it easier to get humanitarian aid into Yemen.

Posted by Fred 2024-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [46 views ]  Top
 File under: Houthis 

#1 These are the surprising victims of Houthi threats: Tesla, Volvo and Suzuki
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-17 01:14||   2024-01-17 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Here in the Middle East we've a saying: dogs bark, but caravan just keeps going.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-17 02:30||   2024-01-17 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Suck it...
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-17 08:44||   2024-01-17 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Apologies Blinkey. We're a generally unattended attic operation with a limited budget. Many here have day jobs and domestic chores. We must be careful. The trucks are always looking for us.

Don't be a stranger.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-17 08:48||   2024-01-17 08:48|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 my comment is missing -again. Wow, this blog is poorly coded, it needs database backups.

I thought it's civil, well-reasoned discourse. maybe it's actually just "me and my 5 friends write comments for each other" and there is a big "NO GIRLS" sign stapled to the front of the clubhouse.


Pretty funny. My guess is that you write comedy for a living.
Posted by badanov 2024-01-17 09:13||   2024-01-17 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 I keep reading that headline as "US to enlist..."
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-17 09:22||   2024-01-17 09:22|| Front Page Top

#7 there is a big "NO GIRLS" sign

Observation clearly not his strong suit, poor dear. Also, before those comments disappeared altogether I spam-copped them. Some things are too viciously stupid to waste pixels to make them visible.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-17 12:27||   2024-01-17 12:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, he (assuming it's not a bot) could start his own blog.

No guarantee anyone would look at it...
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-17 12:34||   2024-01-17 12:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Must have found that video of the Houthi who said US taxes are too high.

I thought it's civil, well-reasoned discourse. maybe it's actually just "me and my 5 friends write comments for each other" and there is a big "NO GIRLS" sign stapled to the front of the clubhouse.


-Melissa McCarthy, Ghostbusters 2016
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-17 13:24||   2024-01-17 13:24|| Front Page Top

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