[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s 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...
, a key ally of the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews...
militia, has sent a request to the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Security Council asking to travel to Cuba to attend the funeral of former president Fidel Castro, according to a statement by his party.
In 2014, the UN Security Council imposed targeted sanctions on Saleh for threatening peace and obstructing Yemen’s political process that subject him to banning him from global travel and freezing his assets.
"President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... has requested the United Nations Security Council to grant him permission to travel to the Republic of Cuba and to Fidel Castro’s family on the passing of the great revolutionary icon of Cuba, the last of the twentieth century’s heroes and the pioneer of the liberation movements who fought against imperialism and retrograde feudalism," said a statement on the Facebook page of Saleh’s General People’s Congress party.