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| Abu Dhabi within range of Yemeni missiles: Houthi spokesman |
| 2018-06-03 |
| [PRESSTV] Yemen's army front man has warned the UAE that its capital, Abu Dhabi, is "no longer safe" from missiles fired in retaliation for the Saudi-led military campaign on the impoverished state. "From now on Abu Dhabi is no longer safe, it will be within our ballistic missiles' range," Brigadier General Sharaf Ghaleb Luqman said in a statement carried by Yemen's official Saba news agency on Friday. Luqman also urged investors in Abu Dhabi to take his warning seriously. The UAE is a key member of a Saudi-led invasion that began in March 2015 in support of Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly government and against 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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... Ansarullah movement. The offensive has killed and injured over 600,000 civilians, according to the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights. Elsewhere in his statement, the front man said the Yemeni army would confront the military escalation by the UAE forces in the country's western coast in Hudaydah. "Yemen's army supported by popular committees has recaptured most of the areas in the western coast," he said. "Islands and areas, where the occupation forces of the Saudi-UAE-led coalition are stationing, will be a cemetery." The remarks came amid a recent military build-up by the UAE-backed forces in Yemen's western port city of Hudaydah and the Socotra Island. Luqman further rejected reports of advances by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's northern Sa'ada Province as false. |
| Posted by:Fred |