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| Saudi-led Coalition Declares End to Yemen Operation | |
| 2015-04-22 | |
| [AnNahar] A Saudi-led coalition declared an end Tuesday to its military campaign four weeks after launching air strikes against rebels in Yemen, saying their threat to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and its neighbors had been removed. The coalition has "ended Operation Decisive Storm based on a request by the Yemeni government and President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi," its front man, Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri, told a press briefing in the Saudi capital. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... he said the coalition would continue to impose a naval blockade on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and target any movements by the Huthi Shiite rebel forces. A coalition statement said that the next phase of operations was aimed at resuming the political process in Yemen, delivering aid, and "fighting terrorism" in the country, home to a deadly al-Qaeda franchise. The Saudi defense ministry said in a statement that the air strikes had managed "to successfully remove threats to Saudi Arabia's security and that of neighboring countries." This, it added, was achieved "by destroying heavy weaponry and ballistic missiles which were seized by the Huthi militia and forces allied to (former president) President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... from army bases and camps." Operation Decisive Storm began on March 26 and will continue until midnight.
[LATimes] Top Obama administration officials have failed for several days to persuade Soddy Arabia’s government to limit the scope of its But senior US. officials, who were not enthusiastic about the Saudi war plan, are increasingly dismayed by heavy civilian casualties and now believe it highly unlikely that Hadi can be reinstated without a ground invasion. They also worry that the turmoil has allowed Yemen's Al Qaeda affiliate to expand its territory. The White House would like Soddy Arabia and its Sunni Arab allies to curtail the | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 OTOH see WORLD NEWS > [Press TV] MOVE BY SAUDI ARABIA TO END YEMEN [Air] WAR MEANS DEFEAT: LARIJANI. * JAPAN TIMES, CNN AM > SAUDIS SAY AIRSTRIKES OVER, BUT BOMB YEMEN [Houthi = Rebel] POSITIONS AGAIN. * YAHOO NEWS > SAUDI ARABIA WILL CONTINUE TO [use any + all means necessary or as pertinent to] STOP HOUTHI ADVANCES IN YEMEN: AMBASSADOR [KSA Amb. to US]. VERSUS * DAILY STAR.LB > [Former LB PM] HARIRI WANTS "DECISIVE STORM" MOVED TO SYRIA, in order to finally get rid of Baby Assad + Regime. A SECOND SAUDI-IRAN MILPOL CONFRONTATION SCENARIO LOOMS??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-22 22:21 |