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| Saudi warplanes hit N Yemen districts again |
| 2010-01-09 |
| Saudi fighter jets have launched another round of aerial bombardment of Houthi positions in northern parts of Yemen along the border with the oil-rich kingdom. According to a statement released by the fighters on Thursday, Saudi forces carried out 13 aerial raids on Jebel al-Madood as well as villages in close proximity to the border region in northern Yemen. The statement added that Saudi forces fired some 1400 rockets against the rugged area. The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi fighters. It intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the fighters in the northern province of Sa'ada. Yemen claims the fighters are seeking to revive an imamate that was toppled in 1962. The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as large-scale corruption. Houthi fighters say that Riyadh has also been pounding their positions, and that Saudi forces strike Yemeni villages and indiscriminately target civilians. According to the fighters, Saudis use toxic materials, including white phosphorus bombs, against civilians in northern Yemen. Saudi forces began fighting with Yemeni Shia resistance fighters, known as Huthis, and bombing their positions on November 4 after accusing the fighters of killing Saudi border guards. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004, up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'ada and take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Bambi can't be a moslem. Moslems worship Allah; Bambi worships no one but himself. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-09 21:32 |
| #6 of course. If he witnessed a stoning death, he never actually participated. It's all good |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-09 19:32 |
| #5 I agree with Yo Adrian. Our president likes the Islam of his childhood because its quaint and picturesque, dovetailing nicely with colourful native costumes and colourful native village life, all suitable for a correct-thinking anthropologist to dissect in the search for universal truths lost in the hustle-bustle of modern life. His faith is the cant of ivory tower drawing room Reds sipping sherry in the evening. I speak from distant observation and knowledge of the type rather than personal encounters, of course, for which I am quietly grateful. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-09 19:24 |
| #4 Obama is not a Muslim and, my opinion, probably leans more towards atheism than anything else. |
| Posted by: Yo Adrian 2010-01-09 13:14 |
| #3 Obomba has raided the treasury. We are incapable of waging a war on anything. That's a feature, not a bug. Don't forget he's a Muslim. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-01-09 12:38 |
| #2 Obomba has raided the treasury. We are incapable of waging a war on anything. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-01-09 01:12 |
| #1 ION WMF > KIM-IL-NAM: US IS INCAPABLE OF LAUNCHING FULL-SCALE "WAR ON TERROR" AGZ REGIONAL MILITANTS FROM YEMEN [argues USA at best has only a LIMITED "HIT-N-RUN/SEARCH-N-LEAVE" STRIKE CAPACITY]??? * SAME > SHOULD THE US MOVE ITS FUTENMA MARINE BASE TO SHIMOJI ISLAND? A US BASE ON SHIMOJI CAN PUT POWERFUL US FORCES IN THE MIDST OF CHINA'S "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN". ARTIC > US-JAPAN deemed strategic tiny island 300-km closer to TAIWAN + CHINA than Okin which can be used as "springboard" for milstrikes agz mainland China. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-09 00:56 |