US President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
on Wednesday claimed 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...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels now "want peace" after more than a week of US
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KABOOM!...
s, which he said have "been very, very strong."
"The Houthis are looking to do something. They want to know, ’How do we stop? How do we stop? How can we have peace?’ The Houthis want peace because they’re getting the hell knocked out of them," he told news hounds in the Oval Office.
"The Houthis are dying for peace. They don’t want this... They were knocking ships out of the ocean.... In the Suez Canal, they only have about 20% of the ships going through. They have to go through a different way, which takes weeks of travel, and that really affects commerce."
"But the Houthis have been hit hard, and they want to negotiate peace," Trump continued. "The Houthis have been horrible to the world. They’ve killed a lot of people and knocked out a lot of ships and planes and anything else... They have been hit harder than they have ever been."
Houthi-held parts of Yemen have witnessed near-daily attacks that the group has blamed on the United States.
Last week, Trump threatened to annihilate the Houthis and warned Tehran against continuing to aid the rebel group.
In his remarks Wednesday, Trump suggested the US strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen may continue for some time.
"They want us to stop so badly... They’ve got to say, ’No mas.’ But I can only say that the attacks every day, every night... have been very successful beyond our wildest expectations... We’re going to do it for a long time. We can keep it going for a long time," Trump said.
His remarks came as Houthi media reported new US strikes hit the rebel-held capital Sanaa, after earlier reporting 19 American raids elsewhere in Yemen.
"A series of strikes by the US aggression have hit the south and north of the capital," the al-Masirah channel said, without providing further details.
The station had earlier reported 17 raids by the United States "on the Saada governorate," on top of two more on Amran.
The Iran-backed rebels’ news agency, Saba, said "the American aggression targeted the Oncology Hospital building in Saada."
The hospital, which Houthi media said was under construction, was also hit last week. The rebel health ministry said two civilians were maimed in the latest hospital attack, which they described as "a full-fledged war crime."
Early on Wednesday, a Houthi military spokesperson said the group targeted "enemy warships in the Red Sea, led by the US aircraft carrier (USS Harry S.) Truman" blamed for the Yemen strikes.
The rebels also claimed a drone attack on Tel Aviv, but did not specify when it occurred. Israel did not report such an attack.