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| Saudi denies military troops entered Yemen |
| 2009-11-26 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia denied on Wednesday reports that its military encroached on Yemen territory to attack Shiite rebels in their homeland, as King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz held talks with the visiting Spanish Prime Minister. A senior defense ministry official said reports in various media that Saudi forces had attacked the rebels inside Yemen territory were "lies" and "fabrications," the state news agency SPA reported early Wednesday. The unnamed defense official noted that Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz had expressly ordered the armed forces only to expel the Houthi rebels from Saudi territory and not to cross the border, SPA said. Houthi lies Earlier, on Tuesday the Houthis, Zaidi Shiites locked in a five-year-old war with the Yemen government, said they had repelled a multi-pronged assault involving air raids and ground shelling launched by Saudi forces along the border on Monday. "The Saudi attack continued on three fronts, but two were broken by Monday evening," it said. Witnesses in the frontier area told AFP that clashes between the Saudis and rebels continued on Tuesday, and that there were intense artillery strikes and air raids on Houthi positions all along the border. But it was not clear if the bombardment and air raids were carried out by Saudi or Yemeni forces. In August Yemen's government launched a "Scorched Earth" campaign against the Houthis, who Sanaa says aim to undermine the government. On Nov. 4 Saudi forces overtly joined the fight for the first time using air and heavy artillery strikes after a small band of Houthis entered Saudi territory and killed a border guard. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Cause an Arab army is not really military? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-11-26 09:06 |