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| Yemen: No soldier captured by Houthis |
| 2010-07-29 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Yemen, formerly the abode of the Queen of Sheba, now a sinkhole of tribal ignorance and superstition, has denied a report which claims Houthi fighters have captured 200 soldiers from the army's Elite Republican Guards in the northern province of Amran. The report carried by Al-Arabiya said that the soldiers belonging to regiment 72 of the army's Elite Republican Guards were captured after the Shia fighters seized a strategic army post in Al-Zaala region on Monday. However, the Yemeni defense ministry on Wednesday dismissed the report, calling it "unfounded." "Tut tut. And tut." "The Elite Republican Guards have no presence in the alleged posts," the state news agency, Saba, quoted a defense ministry spokesman as saying on Wednesday. It was not clear whether soldiers from another unit were captured. The Houthi spokesman has yet to comment on the incident. The latest development in the north was reported only a few days after the Shia fighters and government-backed tribes announced a truce after a week of deadly clashes, which left up to 70 people dead. |
| Posted by:Fred |