Aden -- Yemen’s embattled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi | He's the guy who replaced Saleh. We put him there. It's working out real well, isn't it... |
| How's he going to fight -- run away bravely? |
The country is on the brink of civil war
| Brink? |
| Like any chasm, there's the near brink, where bad things are about to happen, and the far brink, where you only have one hand and a bloody handkerchief with which to clean up after the zombie apocalypse. |
In his first televised speech since he fled to Aden from house arrest in Houthi-held Sanaa, Hadi said he would ensure that “the Yemeni republic flag will fly on the Marran mountain in (the militia’s northern stronghold) Saada, instead of the Iranian flag”.
“The Iranian Twelver pattern that has been agreed upon between the Houthis and those who support them will not be accepted by Yemenis,” he said.
In a letter to relatives of the victims of the mosque bombings, which also wounded 351 people, Hadi condemned the attacks as “terrorist, criminal and cowardly”.
“Such heinous attacks could only be done by the enemies of life” who want to drag Yemen into “chaos, violence and internal fighting”, he said.
“Shia extremism, represented by the armed Houthi militia, and Sunni extremism, represented by Al Qaeda, are two sides of the same coin, who do not wish good and stability for Yemen and its people.”
Hadi has declared Aden the country’s temporary capital.