...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...
militias prevented a UN plane from landing at Sanaa International Airport on Friday.
The plane was supposed to carry on board the two sons of former slain Yemeni president former 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...out of Yemen, according to a prior agreement reached with the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
.
According to reports, the United Nations commissioned a plane to take Salah and Moudin, the sons of slain former president out of Yemen, according to the agreement which led to their release from the Houthi captivity.
The plane took off from the Jordanian capital Amman airport and headed to Sanaa but the Houthis prevented its landing, forcing the plane to return to Amman after the non-response of the pro-Iranian Houthi militia to allow it to land at Sanaa airport, which confirms the lack of seriousness of the Houthi militias and their violations of international laws.
It is noteworthy that the Houthis have conditioned the arrival of an Omani plane to Sanaa International Airport to transfer the former slain presidents’ relatives to the Omani capital Muscat, while the Arab coalition backing the legitimacy 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...agreed that a UN plane would do this mission, which was rejected by the Houthis.