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Air strike near Yemen capital kills seven people: witnesses
Topic Started: Aug 30 2017, 05:05 AM (737 Views)
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Dec 4 2017, 08:33 AM
Houthis blow up ex-president Saleh's house, death toll soars in Sanaa fighting
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SANAA (Reuters) - Iran-allied Houthi forces blew up the house of ex-Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on Monday as fighting between the erstwhile allies intensified in the capital with at least 125 killed, residents and medics said.

Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed Houthi positions in for a second day in support of Saleh, a former Houthi ally who has now renounced his alliance with the heavily armed militia in the multi-sided war shattering the Arabian Peninsula country.

The Saudi-led air campaign, backed by U.S. and other Western arms and intelligence, has killed hundreds of civilians but has failed to secure the coalition any major gains in the nearly three-year-old campaign to restore Yemen’s internationally recognized president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, to power.


Yemen ex-President Saleh killed by Houthis – Iranian media citing sources
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Former President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed by Houthi fighters, according to reports by Iranian media citing informed sources. However, Saleh’s party denies reports of his death.
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Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. © Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Death to traitors............. :)
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Bombed into famine: how Saudi air campaign targets Yemen’s food supplies
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Sources of food are a lifeline in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, but are being targeted by the Saudi-led coalition
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Houthi fighters at the site of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sana’a, Yemen, on 5 December. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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Dec 12 2017, 05:40 AM
Bombed into famine: how Saudi air campaign targets Yemen’s food supplies
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Sources of food are a lifeline in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, but are being targeted by the Saudi-led coalition
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Houthi fighters at the site of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sana’a, Yemen, on 5 December. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Most of the food consumed in Yemen is imported...Blockading the food is a stroke of genius...You don't feel like fighting when you are starving to death....Saudi efforts are the best chance of restoring peace in Yemen......... :victory:
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Western leaders told to stop 'stoking the flames of war' in Yemen
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Generals, politicians and celebrities say US, France and UK must use their UN security council seats to ease humanitarian crisis
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Penny Mordaunt vowed she will be monitoring Saudi assurances given to her over aid to Yemen. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA
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Yemeni deaths due to diphtheria likely to rise amid blockade
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Deaths resulting from a diphtheria outbreak in Yemen are “likely to rise” if the naval blockade imposed by a Saudi-led coalition fighting to defeat Shiite rebels in war-torn Yemen remains in place, an international aid group warned on Monday.
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UN humanitarian chief calls Yemen conditions ‘catastrophic’
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Tuesday that conditions in Yemen are “catastrophic” after three years of war, with a record 22.2 million people needing aid and protection, and the U.N. envoy for the country accused the Saudi-backed government and Shiite rebels of prolonging the conflict.

The officials painted a dire picture of the Arab world’s most impoverished country plunging into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and facing massive destruction as a result of what special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed called the parties’ continuing “destructive pattern of zero-sum politics.”
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Jan 24 2018, 04:58 AM
Yemeni deaths due to diphtheria likely to rise amid blockade
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Deaths resulting from a diphtheria outbreak in Yemen are “likely to rise” if the naval blockade imposed by a Saudi-led coalition fighting to defeat Shiite rebels in war-torn Yemen remains in place, an international aid group warned on Monday.
I thought this country ceased its existence with a cholera epidemic, and died sh*tting themselves to death ................ :confused:
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Didn't they die from bombs, first?

Senators will try to pull U.S. from Yemen war
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers unveiled plans on Wednesday to use a decades-old law to force a Senate vote on whether to pull the country out of a foreign conflict, in this case the civil war in Yemen.
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The senators failed:

Mattis praises Saudis, $1B arms sale to be approved
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday said Saudi Arabia was “part of the solution” in Yemen, where the Saudis are leading a U.S.-supported military campaign against Houthi rebels that is heavily criticized for inflicting civilian casualties.
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Air strike kills 10 civilians in Yemen: residents, medics
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed ten civilians, including women and children, in the northern province of Saada on Thursday, residents and medics said.


Amnesty denounces Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and allies in Yemen war
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Friday denounced Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies in a coalition battling the Houthis in Yemen, saying such traffic made a “mockery” of a global arms trade treaty.
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Amnesty International needs an army if they ever hope to have any effect............... :shakeshead:
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US-Backed Coalition Bombs Wedding Party in Yemen, Killing Dozens
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A bride was among those killed at a wedding party, and at least 45 were wounded according to reports.
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Top Photo | Doctors attend to people injured by airstrikes while attending a wedding in a village in northwestern Yemen, at a hospital in Hajjah. (Photo: Reuters)
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U.N. secretary general condemns deadly air strikes in Yemen
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned on Monday air strikes on a wedding party in Yemen that killed at least 50 civilians, his spokesman said.
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Kill them all before they have a chance to breed.................. :nana:
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Yemen civil war: Parents forced to watch their children starve to death as war topples country of 29 million into famine
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Nearly a third of Yemen’s population – 8.4 million people – rely completely on food aid or else they would starve. That number grew by a quarter over the past year
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Umm Mizrah on the scales at the hospital. She and her husband, who have three young daughters in addition to Mizrah, usually eat one meal a day, often just bread and tea Photography by AP
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Some thoughts here.....

Yemen.

An interesting thread. People are dying. People are suffering on a massive scale. Who's to blame?

Yes, the Saudi Arabian government is hitting back against a radical Shiite group hoping to take control of Yemen. Yup, the Americans are there too in the form of the US Green Beret's. Special ops. Drones. Satellite intelligence. Again, who's to blame? Shiite, that's the key word here. Shiite's acquiring power in a predominately Sunni peninsula. Shiite's launching missiles toward Riyadh. It reminds one of the Vietnam war. A communist led government trying to unify the country by purposely invading its southern neighbor which has a corrupt, semi-democratic government in power. Enormous suffering. Killings. Stop it. Stop it all now (!), come the cries from the media.

But, what is completely unmentioned in THIS thread is who is supporting the Houthis with guns and ammunition, little different than who was supporting North Vietnam in the 60's and 70's during its struggle for hegemony over its neighbor to the south.

By the way, the war in Yemen goes to the very heart of the diplomatic fights taking place in the Persian Gulf between Qatar and Iran on one side, and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the UAE on the other.

What is important to note here is the support of the Houthis rebels from one country, also Shiite, .....Iran. The 32 year old Prince Salman of Saudi Arabia, the next ruler, has repeatedly threatened Iran over the Yemen conflict. They supply the guns, the ammunition, the missiles (which are launched toward Riyadh) and the MONEY for the Houthis cause. So, if there is suffering taking place in Yemen, and there certainly is (see above), then Iran should be held accountable as well. The Houthis aren't operating in a vacuum. This is essentially a proxy war that may portend a real one between SA and Iran in the coming years.....


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Saudi is fighting a proxy war with Iran in Yemen. The effects on the Kingdom have been severe: a weakening of the Wahhabi clerical power and a growing modernization of the social structure. Both these steps may help Saudi's demographic and economic vulnerability but the Kingdom has significant internal flaws. Saudi's alliance with Israel and the USA cannot last forever.

Iran is a shrewd and powerful enemy. Persia was always a major player. The Islamic Republic, like Saudi, has to shed some of the reactionary social mores which are associated with the fight against Western colonialism. Iran was a major ally of the USA under the Shah and it may be so again. We are natural partners.
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Saudi is fighting a proxy war with Iran in Yemen. The effects on the Kingdom have been severe: a weakening of the Wahhabi clerical power and a growing modernization of the social structure. Both these steps may help Saudi's demographic and economic vulnerability but the Kingdom has significant internal flaws. Saudi's alliance with Israel and the USA cannot last forever.

Iran is a shrewd and powerful enemy. Persia was always a major player. The Islamic Republic, like Saudi, has to shed some of the reactionary social mores which are associated with the fight against Western colonialism. Iran was a major ally of the USA under the Shah and it may be so again. We are natural partners.
Muslim countries are our unnatural partners............ :shakeshead:
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Saudi airstrikes hit presidency building in Yemen, killing 6
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels targeted the presidency building in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday, leaving at least six people dead and 30 wounded, according to health officials.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, said the six killed were all civilians. It was not known if there were any Houthi rebel leaders present at the time of the airstrikes in Sanaa or if any were killed or wounded.
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Yemenis walk past rubble after deadly airstrikes in and near the presidential compound, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May. 7, 2018. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels targeted the presidency building in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday, leaving at least six people dead and some 30 wounded, according to health officials. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Saudi is fighting a proxy war with Iran in Yemen. The effects on the Kingdom have been severe: a weakening of the Wahhabi clerical power and a growing modernization of the social structure. Both these steps may help Saudi's demographic and economic vulnerability but the Kingdom has significant internal flaws. Saudi's alliance with Israel and the USA cannot last forever.

Iran is a shrewd and powerful enemy. Persia was always a major player. The Islamic Republic, like Saudi, has to shed some of the reactionary social mores which are associated with the fight against Western colonialism. Iran was a major ally of the USA under the Shah and it may be so again. We are natural partners.
..."Saudi is fighting a proxy war with Iran in Yemen. The effects on the Kingdom have been severe: a weakening of the Wahhabi clerical power and a growing modernization of the social structure." ...

I hate to admit it, but Georgie has it right here. The Wahhabi's are losing ground in SA on a daily basis.

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U.S. MOVES FORWARD WITH MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR “SMART BOMB” SALE TO SAUDI ARABIA AND UAE DESPITE CIVILIAN DEATHS IN YEMEN
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LAST MONTH, WARPLANES belonging to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen repeatedly bombed a wedding party in the northern part of the country, killing more than 20 people, including the bride, and injuring dozens of others. In the days that followed, local media published a photograph of a bomb fragment with a serial number tying it to the U.S.-based weapons manufacturer Raytheon.

Now the State Department is taking preliminary steps toward a massive, multibillion-dollar sale of similar weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, three congressional aides, a State Department official, and two other people familiar with the sales told The Intercept.
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Top photo: Yemenis inspect the damage after deadly airstrikes in and near the presidential compound, in Sanaa, Yemen on May 7, 2018. Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels targeted the presidency building in the heart of the Yemeni capital, leaving at least six people dead and some 30 wounded, according to health officials.
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