SANAA - Yemeni authorities said on Tuesday they had crushed Zaidi rebels in a suburb of the capital Sanaa after what witnesses said was several days of heavy fighting that had left dozens of casualties.Security forces "dealt with the rebellion in Bani Hushaish, which was a pocket of rebels led by Abdul Malak al-Huthi," an official told AFP, referring to the field commander of a four-year-old uprising in the far north of Yemen. Troops and police "crushed the dens of the strife and rebellion, the outlaws, in Bani Hushaish," a suburb 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Sanaa, a defence ministry official told the state Saba news agency.
Tribal sources and witnesses told AFP that dozens of rebels and security forces were killed or wounded during three days of heavy fighting in Bani Hushaish which ended early Tuesday.
| Last week they whacked the rebels in the north. Today they whacked the rebels near the capital. Tomorrow they'll whack the rebels in the capital. Next week they'll whack the rebels on the palace steps. Week after that they'll whack the rebels inside the inner sanctum. |