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US-Armed Rebels Force Yemen President To Flee Country As Saudis Prepare For War
UPDATE: *PRESIDENT OF YEMEN SAID TO HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY ON BOAT FROM ADEN, AP SAYS
As The BBC reports,
Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in Aden as Houthi rebels advance towards the city.
Gunfire could be heard around the city centre, and the rebels are reported to have seized the international airport.
On Wednesday morning, the Houthis moved to within 60km (37 miles) of the city after taking a key air base following fierce fighting with Hadi loyalists.
Government officials later said the president had been moved to a "secure location" but had not fled the country.
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Previously we reported that in the latest "coup" for US foreign policy, the US had "lost" over $500 million in weapons in Yemen, until recently an Obama administration foreign policy "success story", following the abrupt evacuation of the US embassy there, all of which ended up in local rebel and al-Qaeda hands.
It didn't take long for the local Houthi rebels to put all these weapons to good use: as Reuters reports, Houthi forces in Yemen backed by allied army units seized a key air base on Wednesday and appeared poised to capture the southern port of Aden from defenders loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, local residents said.
As a reminder this is the second time the Yemeni president, so close to Obama, will be forced to uproot and get out of Dodge, after his prompt "evacuation" from the capital Sanaa a month ago:
The Houthis and their military allies later advanced to within 40km (25 miles) of the city, where Hadi has been holed up since fleeing the group's stronghold in the capital Sanaa last month.
Yemen's slide toward civil war has made the country a crucial front in mostly Sunni Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran, which Riyadh accuses of sowing sectarian strife through its support for the Houthis.
Sunni Arab monarchies around Yemen have condemned the Houthi takeover as a coup and have mooted a military intervention in favor of Hadi in recent days.
The situation in Yemen is "fluid" but not looking good for the status quo: in Aden, heavy traffic clogged Aden as parents brought schoolchildren home and public sector employees obeyed orders to leave work. Eyewitnesses said pro-Hadi militiamen and tribal gunmen were out in force throughout the city
This happens as the northern militia alongside army units loyal to Yemen's powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh have driven back an array of tribal fighters, army units and southern separatist militiamen loyal to embattled president Hadi.
The Iranian-backed Houthi Shi'ite militants took control of Sanaa in September and seized the central city of Taiz at the weekend as they move closer to Aden.
Houthi leaders have said their advance is a revolution against Hadi and his corrupt government, and Iran has blessed their rise as part of an "Islamic awakening" in the region.
Yemeni officials denied reports that Hadi had fled Aden.
Next up: yet another regional civial war involving a regime that was until recently so very loyal to Obama: a war which many blame on the former administration:
While Hadi has vowed to check the Houthi push south and called for Arab military support, his reversals have multiplied since heavy fighting first broke out in south Yemen on Thursday and the Houthis began making rapid advances southward.
In Houta, storefronts were shuttered and residents reported hearing bursts of machine gun fire and the bodies of fighters from both sides lying in the streets. Eyewitnesses said Houthi fighters and allied soldiers largely bypassed the city center and traveled by dirt roads to the southern suburbs facing Aden.
While the battle is publicly being waged by the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement, many Adenis believe that the real instigator of the campaign is former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a fierce critic of Hadi. It was Saleh who was the author of the city's previous humiliation in 1994, when as president he crushed a southern secessionist uprising in a short but brutal war.
A body of army loyalists close to Saleh on Wednesday warned against any foreign interference, saying in a statement on Saleh's party website that Yemen would confront such a move "with all its strength."
Which is ironic because according to AP, what's left of the government is now actually calling for its neighbors to invade the country to restore peace and stability!
BREAKING: Yemen's foreign minister calls for Arab military intervention against advancing Shiite rebels.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 25, 2015
And as a follow up Reuters reports, the Saudi are indeed preparing for what appears to be the next MENA war, by moving heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict.
The slide toward war in Yemen has made the country a crucial front in Saudi Arabia's region-wide rivalry with Iran, which Riyadh accuses of sowing sectarian strife through its support for the Houthis.
Just as Ukraine is a proxy war between Russia and the US, Yemen will be a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia:
The conflict risks spiraling into a proxy war with Shi'ite Iran backing the Houthis, whose leaders adhere to the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, and Saudi Arabia and the other regional Sunni Muslim monarchies backing Hadi.
The armor and artillery being moved by Saudi Arabia could be used for offensive or defensive purposes, two U.S. government sources said. Two other U.S. officials said the build-up appeared to be defensive.
One U.S. government source described the size of the Saudi buildup on Yemen's border as "significant" and said the Saudis could be preparing air strikes to defend Hadi if the Houthis attack his refuge in the southern seaport of Aden.
Another U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington had acquired intelligence about the Saudi build-up. But there was no immediate word on the precise location near the border or the exact size of the force deployed.
As a result, the Saudis would reather shoot first, ask questions later:
Saudi Arabia faces the risk of the turmoil spilling across its porous 1,800 km (1,100 mile)-long border with Yemen and into its Shi'ite Eastern Province where the kingdom's richest oil deposits lie.
“The Saudis are just really deeply concerned about what they see as an Iranian stronghold in a failed state along their border,” U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Matthew Tueller told Reuters on Monday at a conference hosted by the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce in Washington.
But a former senior U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the prospects for successful external intervention in Yemen appeared slim. He said Hadi’s prospects appeared to be worsening and that for now he was “pretty well pinned down.”
Slim or not, the countdown to another proxy war has begun. The biggest winner? These guys.
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It's a valiant attempt to deprogram the cult of misinformation created by some alpha-psychopaths peculiar to a religion.
I think he's right about the House of Saud being Talmud centric!
I'm guessing there is a different reason that the shit wasn't loaded on the supply planes and boats that were left behind. I can just hear it -
.....we have to abandon all this gear as we have no way to get it out in time.
But sir, what about the supply planes and the boats?
We'll have to abandon them too.
WTF
Let me get this straight:
“The Saudis are just really deeply concerned about what they see as an Iranian stronghold in a failed state along their border,” and this is justification for putting defensive arms along it's border.
But when Russia is deeply concerned about what they see as a NATO stronghold in a failed state along it's border, it is not justification for putting offensive weapons along it's border.
That about right?
Kinda like what's good for the goose ain't good for the gander! Persistant liberal hypocracy in action!
Your dumbness is on display again. You got the jones for tribal bullshit. It must feel real good!
Is this the sequel to Operation Fast and Furious 1,that was produced on the Tex/Mex border,a few years ago?
That was a dry run. This stuff is orders of magnitude worse!
Those 300 NVGs are absolute gold and a huge threat.
The MIC is trying to make it a fair fight.
Meh, wait until we misplace a Battleship or a Carrier, then shit will get real.
War, huh, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin' (unless you can make beaucoups of profit), say it again!
...good gawd!
Congress Demands War in Ukraine! Written by Daniel McAdams.
Just weeks after a European-brokered ceasefire greatly reduced the violence in Ukraine, the US House of Representatives today takes a big step toward re-igniting -- and expanding -- the bloody civil war.
A Resolution, "Calling on the President to provide Ukraine with military assistance to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity," stealthily made its way to the House Floor today without having been debated in the relevant House Committees and without even being given a bill number before appearing on the Floor!
Now titled H. Res. 162, the bill demands that President Obama send lethal military equipment to the US-backed government in Kiev and makes it clear that the weapons are to be used to take military action to return Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine to Kiev's rule.
Congress wants a war in Ukraine and will not settle for a ceasefire!
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/25/4939
Action of the devil incarnate! May all those self interested tribalists & associated religious zealots behind this atrocity be visited with a life of pain and suffering! Amen!
re A Resolution (...) made its way to the House Floor today without having been debated in the relevant House Committees and without even being given a bill number before appearing on the Floor!
As long as it has the Kosher Nostra Seal-Of-Approval, that's all that matters.
the Kosher Nostra Seal-Of-Approval,
Well, I'm off to the Apple store to see if they can fix this keyboard.
I read this article and have been pissed off all day. These are the NAZIs that, 348-48 of our representatives, voted to arm. We all know that defense contract companies are in the top five contributors of each and everyone of the 348.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0ML0XJ20150325?irpc=932
The tribe ain't into 'votes' they don't control or don't know the results of! Kind of a modified 'insider' democracy type of thing!
What is most depressing to me is that there is bipartisan support, and sadly public support, toward arming Ukraine, when even western news agencies are admitting that we will be arming self avowed Nazis.
Bipartisan support - there's your problem. The two party system is a joke and a head fake - they're all the same
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Just getting ready for the Spring ritual sacrifice to Baal.
False flag coming.
5/3 in for 100 bucks
he was a rent-a-pimp like Obama, his head will be on a pike soon
Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, upon taking office as the great liberal peacemaker president, immediately began a massive ramp up in George Bush's drone wars. In particular, Obama ordered American CIA and Special Forces to flood Yemen with assets, and to begin a largescale drone war over every inch of Yemen. Soon Obama was racking up kills nearly every day. Hundreds of drone strikes were taking out Al-Qaeda and other radical Muslims all across Yemen. Victories too numerous to count. If you view CNN or FOX, you are familiar with the reports from the Pentagon listing all the big radicals killed in Yemen every week.
Only one problem for the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, His drone campaign was killing more civilians than radicals. Daily the hate of American started to grow along with the funerals. More and more people organized and vowed to fight the Drone President and his CIA and Military men inside Yemen. Well the rest is history. The US all but manufactured this new army of radical Islamists who want to wage war on the USA.
All we need ask now is "was it all on purpose, did the Neocons want to create another radical Islamic army?" or "was it simply that drone warfare fails, and leaves more radicals to fight us than it kills." Either way, The Zionists, Neoconservatives and Obamists who occupy the CIA, Pentagon and State Department has created anotehr giant fuck up! As Americans, we will pay the bil for this, and our kids will be recruited to fight the new terror threat in Yemen.
You're making that sound like a bad thing (sarc)? Simply minor collateral damage for the good & betterment & expanded real estate footprint of Zionist utopia!
Really?
That is why Obama is prepared to force Israel to divide thru the UN after he was unable to unseat Bibi.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/03/how_t...
It is because Israel is gaining so much power?
You got it ass backwards, most of you here.
Israel is going to be isolated and divided.
Obama is going to do that, he is Muslim.
He intentionaly created this chaos in the middle east for that purpose.
New to reality DSTY?
Puppets like Obama don't have any choice. These people would sell their mothers to please their masters.
jesus you're dumb.
or at least ignorant.
why dont you try google searching topics and reading the second page of links.
challenge yourself.
you're wrong.
You read the link I provided!
You are wrong
Israel does no control Obama
That is the same stupid mantra pitched here over and over again.
In the past the US blocked all Islamic nation votes condeming Israel.
That has changed the day Obama took office
He will not allow any terrorist attack by Muslims to be called terror attacks.
Because he will never call a Muslim a terrorist even though the Koran teaches Jihad.
So who is the stupid one here.
Obama is a Muslim
Bang your head on that one!
At least OIL stocks will go up, been adding myself XOM etc on the way down under $50.
In every war movie we've ever seen, when our guys have to abandon their stuff, they toss a thermite grenade (which they always seem to have handy) into the jeep or the helicopter or the gun barrel.
They understand that the enemy getting this stuff would be a bad thing.
Today's whore admirals and generals--the ones that weren't purged--understand that they will get more retirement speaking fees, book deals, and board seats if they promote unending war, even if our own gear is used against US troops.
War is a racket.
Yemen collapsed and US forces left. Did they ever consider destroying the weapons and vehicles before leaving?
It is commonly known as a "Scorched Earth Policy".
That is more like denying the enemy access to materials, not a scorched earth policy. You'd figure they would have at least put a thermite grenade or two on each engine block, removed all the bolt carrier groups from the weapons and generally trash everything else. It wouldn't take that long. Field stripping an M4 to remove the BCG takes less than 5 seconds.
Seriously - am I delusional or is abandoning the transport means for virtually all of the weapons, ammo etc - (sure blow up the Humvees) along with the gear just off the top non sensical ? And trhat is the best story they can come up with - actually they don't even give a story. I knew a guy who lost his contract for not having a good story for losing his NVG issue. Granted - he sure as shit deserved it because I'm pretty sure he sold them - but that's how tough they were on that.
BTW - the guy who got booted - we were still stateside
No shit but I could bag them in the same time and if it took 3 guys to carry it they're in serious nee of PT. wish the funk I had a pair - be awesome on night shooting or some perving
PS Humvees , ammo , guns , helos and an order to destroy - it would all come together
Obamaspin: "He didn't flee the country by boat, he is going on a long fishing trip".
Honestly, would YOU stay in a country where hundreds of radical extremists - armed with US weaponry - are out hunting for you? Far better to find a quiet spot where you can build a nice secure compound and try to figure out how to spend the multi-millions you skimmed off US Aid over the years.
As a patriotic American, I am proudly standing by to learn how I can reduce my freedom and inconvenience my own life so that DC and its allies can sort out this Yemen thing
Beak-Nosed Banker: "Sheik, the American driving season is approaching."
Sheik: "Okay, my kosher friend, I will amass troops on the border. Peak oil, bitchez!"
When are we delivering the rest of the equipment?
3 front war. Anything less won't cut it. Must have WWIII.
Who really needs banks if one is not in debt? I say, screw the banks. Hang them high!
Did someone say, "Hang Em High?"
https://youtu.be/6Mf-fcYVsRc
WOW! US soldiers being killed with American made Weapons! That's Brilliant Obama! Not!
according to Lori Plotkin Boghardt
Saudi Arabia is funding ISIS
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/saudi-funding-of...
So does Josh Rogin
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-fu...
Strangely, such writers never mention significant evidence of Israeli support for Christian-murdering Salafists in Syria.
I wonder why.
The ISIS Islamic Terrorists are Supported by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-isis-islamic-terrorists-are-supported-b...
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13501
Please watch this with Col Larry Wilkerson speaking. He states that because of all the torture conducted by the CIA and the US government they should first of all arrest the lawyers that allowed the torture of detainees and then arrest the others.
I think someone should ask for Obama to give up his Nobel Peace Prize so we can give it to this couragious american. I truthful American.
I am still waiting to see a thirty year old pickup truck with those ISIS guys driving....
Our guys in Iraq war had to scrounge armor at the rubbish tip for the HumVees.
Funny where the resources end up,but then to quote Rummy,"We go into battle with
the Army we have....." Yadda,yadda............
Slim or not, the countdown to another proxy war has begun. The biggest winner? These guys.
And don't forget,.... This Guy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Rich
If the bankster overloards want to start a war with Yemen, that is much better than the Ukraine. Ukrainians are human beings with hotties, Yemens are .... well.... evolving from muhammud camels or something. Why are we always at war with distant poor countries in general.