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Arabia
Senior Saudi Commander Killed in Yemeni Attack
2015-08-25
[ALMANAR.LB] Al-Manar correspondent in 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...
reported that a senior Saudi commander was killed in a Yemeni attack on a Saudi border area of Jizan.

For its part, Riyadh said the commander of Saudi eighteenth army brigade, Major General Abdul Rahman bin Saad al-Shahrani, was injured as he was inspecting military deployments along the kingdom's southern border regions, 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...
n armed forces announced in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency on Sunday.

senior Saudi commanderShahrani died after being transferred to hospital for treatment.

Earlier in the day, Yemeni troops took control of two Saudi army bases in the border region of Jizan.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to runaway president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.

However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
Yemeni army, backed by popular committees and tribal fighter has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country, especially the country's south, from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.
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