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Yemen Ground Invasion By Saudi, Egyptian Troops Imminent
As reported first thing today, while the initial phase of the military campaign against Yemen has been taking place for the past 18 hours and been exclusively one of airborne assaults by forces of the "Decisive Storm" coalition, Saudi hinted at what is coming next following reports that it had built up a massive 150,000 troop deployment on the border with Yemen.
And as expected, moments ago AP reported that Egyptian military and security officials told The Associated Press that the military intervention will go further, with a ground assault into Yemen by Egyptian, Saudi and other forces, planned once airstrikes have weakened the capabilities of the rebels.
Will this invasion mean that Yemen as we know it will no longer exist and become annexed by Saudi Arabia? According to coalition military sources, the answer is no, but that remains to be seen:
Three Egyptian military and security officials told The Associated Press that a coalition of countries led by Egypt and Saudi Arabia will conduct a ground invasion into Yemen once the airstrikes have sufficiently diminished the Houthis and Saleh's forces. They said the assault will be by ground from Saudi Arabia and by landings on Yemen's Red and Arabian Sea coasts.
The aim is not to occupy Yemen but to weaken the Houthis and their allies until they enter negotiations for power-sharing, the officials said.
They said three to five Egyptian troop carriers are stationed off Yemen's coasts. They would not specify the numbers of troops or when the operation would begin. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the plans with the press.
Egypt's leadership role in the next stage of the campaign has come as somewhat of a surprise to observers. Egypt's presidency said in a statement Thursday that its naval and air forces were participating in the coalition campaign already. Egypt is "prepared for participation with naval, air and ground forces if necessary," Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said at a gathering of Arab foreign ministers preparing for a weekend Arab summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
This may be just the beginning:
The Arab Summit starting Saturday is expected to approve the creation of a new joint Arab military force to intervene in regional crises. The Egyptian security and military officials said the force is planned to include some 40,000 men backed by jet fighters, warships and light armor. Hadi is expected to attend the summit.
The locals do not sound much enthused about the prospect of allowing foreign troops to enter their country uncontested, and as AP notes, support for the Houthis is far from universal in Yemen - but foreign intervention risks bringing a backlash.
On Thursday, thousands gathered outside Sanaa's old city in the Houthi-organized protest, chanting against Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Khaled al-Madani, a Houthi activist, told the crowd that "God was on the side of Yemen." He blasted Saudi Arabia saying it is "buying mercenaries with money to attack Yemen. But Yemen will, God willing, will be their tomb."
Anger against the strikes was already brewing - particularly after airstrikes targeting an air base near Sanaa's airport flattening half a dozen homes in an impoverished neighborhood and killing at least 18 civilians, according to the health ministry.
For now Yemeni anger is focused on Saudi Arabia:
TV stations affiliated with the rebels and Saleh showed the aftermath of the strikes Thursday. Yemen Today, a TV station affiliated with Saleh, showed hundreds of residents congregating around the rubbles, some chanting "Death to Al-Saud", in reference to the kingdom's royal family. The civilians were sifting through the rubble, pulling out mattresses, bricks and shrapnel.
Ahmed al-Sumaini said an entire alley close to the airport was wiped out in the strikes overnight. He said people ran out from their homes in the middle of the night, many jolted out of bed to run into the streets. "These people have nothing to do with the Houthis or with Hadi. This is destructive. These random acts will push people toward Houthis," he said, as he waved shrapnel from the strikes.
Strikes also hit in the southern province Lahj and the stronghold of Houthis in the northern Saada province. In Sanaa, they also hit the camp of U.S.-trained Yemeni special forces, which is controlled by generals loyal to Saleh, and a missile base held by the Houthis.
But that will soon change, as it is a virtual certainty that the US will intervene at a point in the near future, with its own military assets. So while we await to see just where US troops make landfall, here is the most updated map showing the locations of US naval assets around the globe in general, and in proximity to Yemen in particular. Keep a very close eye on the LHD-7 Iwo Jima amphibious assault ship (which carries some 2,000 marines of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit), currently located just off the coast of Yemen.
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BOW down pig, bow to the Masters of the World; Zion. I need my toilets cleaned, I promise you can eat my table scrapes. Friends?
Is that from the new WarCraft movie trailer?
Well done my brother.
FYI ... I have no idea what I'm talking about! I'm just here to agitate the 'Merikan way!
answer - we are bombing Yemeni's to help the US munitiions industry, and the congressional critters that are bought-n-paid-for, by them. Everything else is just froth.
Yemen is merely the latest target range for the US munitions industry to dispose of ordinance. Otherwise you might just see Yemen for what it is; one set of tribes shooting it up with another set of tribes. Same ole, same ole, last 100,000 years.
Follow the money.
Looks like the MIC of China and Russia missed their "Window of Opportunity" to recognize them (Maidan style), arm the Rebels to the teeth and take control of the entry to the Red Sea.
If they had plans to do so, the US got wind of it and moved faster.
The early bird...
dup
One good kick and the House of Saud is going down in a heap. One can only hope. Then it will be on like Donkey Kong.
US backs "Arab Spring" and now they face the wrath of the "US Spring Trap". What is significant about YeMen; is there a YeWoMen?
Well, there goes the neighborhood! That escalated quickly.....aaaaand it's gone!
Oh goodie ... moar war! Looks like the USSA wants to try out some new high tech drones & laser guided missles on live targets!
That's right, head chopping byaiches, you can fight your own damn wars!
Show the world how brave the UN Peacekeepers are!
Send them in Obozo.
Finally, some decicive leadership in the ME!!
Nice to see the USSA finally outfit these slobs in decent uniforms & lethal equiptment. Charging eachother on camels with sharp sticks just wasn't cutting it!
As of the writing of these lines it seems like the Iranian takeover of the Bab el Mandeb global oil choke point was averted at the last-minute by the Egyptian marines who landed there under the cover of the Saudi air-force. Iran also suffered a humiliating defeat in Tikrit, Iraq by ISIS forces, which prompted the Americans to provide air support to the Iranian forces on the ground in Iraq. The Iranian offensive in Southern Syria is also going nowhere at this point. The entire Middle-East is revolting against the Obama-Khamenei axis of evil and its attempt to elevate Iran to regional hegemony. READ ON: http://osnetdaily.com/2015/03/yemen-war-update-egypt-seizes-bab-el-mande...
one of th emost absurdly idiotic things I've read on this topic. Really.
Are you really sure you want to be on record as a supporter of this paranoid, dispensationalist rag?
http://osnetdaily.com/
Actually, we have to seriously consider what the hell is going on over there. On one hand, Ovomit is working with Iran in Iraq and IS providing air cover for their interventionist forces illegally in Iraq. I really do believe the Iranians were getting gobsmacked in Tikrit. He is also intent on making some sort of nuclear deal with the mullahs. On the other hand, Ovomit seems joined at the hip with the Sunni monarchies as exemplified in Libya and Syria.
It's very confusing. The US government seems to be involved with all sides so I simply don't see a coherent strategy. Maybe there is one but it is beyond me, other than fomenting permanent chaos.
Pepe Escobar is right to call the US the "Empire of Chaos".
Iranian forces are present in Iraq at the invitation of Iraq. Iraq has accused the US of dropping weapons to ISIS several times now.
Iran has been fighting ISIS - which is a Saudi/US proxy. They should be commended for doing so.
As to the military/tactical situation - I have no idea what's happening on the ground and neither do you...there's just know way to reliably know.
But the Iranians arent the bad guys. The US/Saudi/Israeli axis has been supporting foreign Salafist mercenaries in Syria for over 2 years - and they have made a point of targeting Christians and committing ostentatious atrocities.
As for Iran, you ought to consider that US intelligence says they arent working toward a nuke. Their clerics have issud fatwahs. Israel has had years to produce a shred of evidence but has not done so - in fact Netanyahu has claimed they were months away for 20 years..... which means he's been LYING.
Consider that much of what you're hearing on Iran is horseshit.
If they had diverted any uranium, the IAEA would know.
Meanwhile the Israelis could have nukes pointed at London, Paris, and Washington - and we'd never, ever hear about it.
As to strategy, read up on the Oded Yinon plan - which seems to clearly be guiding Likud ergo AIPAc ergo Congress.
Obama may actually be trying to hold back the neocons from instigating ww3 for Greater Zion.
He may [*may*] be showing some spine against nutjob far right Ziopaths.
ISIS is, I believe, a well armed, well guided but small force - unlikely to be able to *hold* ground... hence repeated US airstrikes and airdrops.
I think the US and Saudi and Israel are using ISIS as a "golem" of sorts - over here, a proxy guerilla terror group, and over there... an excuse/cover for why US troops need to intervene.
meanwhile - us airstrikes have not harmed ISIS, have delivered weapons to them, and I would be you are really focused on hurting Syrian infrastructure and command and control.
Where we will agree is that the whole thing is a mess and a lot of needless death is being spread around by war profiteers and ideologues - Salafists and Ziopaths.
Today I have an exam on International Law. I feel outreaged everything I'm supposed to know in order to pass the exam is BULLSHIT.
So what's yur point?
I'm loosing my time and "great universities" are "Ministries of the Truth" and we live in a schizoid World and I'm sick of it.
Whatevvahhh! Ask the Kardashians they probable know!
Saudis dont do ground invasions, they make phone calls for napalm® while chatting with their cordwainer, that' why we left, to give the Saudis some privacy while they exterminate the opposition.
This is a greenlight from Obama for ethnic cleansing of Yemenis and Iranians and Shia Muslims.
Obama is playing these people like a banjo
Exceptional Conflict Instigation!
Tacticul makeup, all the coolest operators are wearing it. It also matches the kevlar-bikini underwear that is standard issue for Seal Team Sexy.
Did someone say, "tacticool"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBaISwLnrgo
Shiite and Sunnis have fought each other for 1,000 years and the Wahabists on the Peninsula have been cleansing said geographic locale for more than 200 years. Nothing new going on here and has nothing to do with the US, or Europe, or the World dominating Zionists. That the US and Europe seek to influence the region is nothing new as well. Most of you ZH Goebbels-Mohammedans are certifiably USA TODAY/Arab Street intellects. :)
actually, you seem to be the one who is an apologist for NAZI-like behavior.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israels-every-day-terrorism-crimes-against-...
for assholes like you, of course, its not warcrimes when Jews do it.
Quick - think up some clever rejoinder that makes you sound like it took you 6 years to get out of high school....
lol.
Off topic boy. Address the comment I made. Your intellect and moral upbringing is as shallow as the neoprene mistake that begot you. Address the Shia-Sunni schism of a millennium, you Left Handed squat hole.
You're too stupid to be a good bigot. Why don't you go fly a kite!
Ya' gotta be smert to be a bigot? D'oh!
No just a good one like he said stupid.
Oh yeah ..... I'm just 2 credits short away frum my nite skool high skool diploma! This is part of my current events project!
I thought you NAZIs hated the jews, oh look you do. You must know tha a nazi is just a socialist that doesn't want a one world government so you do fit the bill.
I thought the head Nazi was 50% tribe? Wat up wit dat?
Someone please turn off the pointless comment-flooding under the names "Itchy and Scratchy" and "falconflight" (88 posts between them already!!).
It is degrading the signal-to-noise ratio of the very informative and effective criminality-exposing ZH. That surely wasn't their intention.
Don't encourage me 'cause there's lots moar of this stuff where it came from.! Plus I'm not just an adorable cunning linguist ... I can solve these foreign affairs conflicts & finally bring peace to the Middle East just as easy as u can! My up vote to down vote ratio usually runs around 7-1 which should qualify me for the Hall-of-Fame!
I read the other day that Yemenis are second only to the USA in guns owned by citizens. Now if the general population is enraged by these new "coalition of the willing" bombing raids, the ground assault troops may have more to worry about than the various organized militias or military units.
So we have more chaos and innocent death along with destruction of housing and vital infrastructure systems. Where have we seen this before? Iraq, Libya, Syria, wash rinse repeat. Yemen has been a polyglot of tribes forever and forcing them into a "country" was never going to be the correct move anyway. For years it was North and South Yemen. The Egyptians, btw, have a history of military intervention in Yemen from back in the 60's - the North Yemen Civil War. Here's a link to the same crap back then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War
The biggest change in simply the rotation of the USA into Great Britain's role.
All Hail Obama, man of peace.
Looks like the Blue Angels minus the F-15 Eagle Fighters to me!
Haha the Saudis don't fight, they only know to perform donuts in tricked out maybachs.
Yemen is hilly terrain land. (something like Afghanistan). Regular Armies cannot stand Guerilla type Warfare. Local support is a must.
ARAB SPECIAL FORCES WILL INVADE YEMEN AFTER FINISHING THEIR TEA
Egyptian Commandos working on the last details of the operation, but still unsure if they should attack using camels or desert donkeys.
Source: www.financialpaparazzi.com
Egypt has a very capable military and will crush the Persian terrorist occupation with the help of neighbors and Yemenis.
I'll take Persia but I need a converted TD.
Will they "Move like an Egyptian"?
Is that a scene from "A Chorus Line"?
Yawn .... wake me up when Iran lobs a few AIM-9 Heat Seeking Sidewinder Missles into Tel Aviv!
Bankers are celebrating!
And while the blood flows the U.N. Peace Keeping Forces are ..........
U.N.involved?
U.N.interested?
U.N.reachable?
I think I am going to take a course in coffin making, how to say prayers in 15 different religions, get an incinerator and go into the funeral business as that seems to be the next real growing enterprise.
I will make an IPO and get a contract or two and sell franchises around the world, coerce governments with my IPO money to kick everyone else out of the business and buy an island and a yacht, 100 or so women to keep an old guy company and divorce this planet. :)
I got the House of Saud in my March Maddness Mid-East bracket. I hope they get to the elite eight! I got them going to the final four up against cinderella Iran!
I bet that the Saudi National Guard is not involved in that invasion, the best fighters in SA are kept home to guard the Royal family!
I really fail to see how a bunch of spoiled rich brats can defeat an insurgency with nothing but stoopid drifting and two-wheel motion tricks. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CLFLffZA7Q
War War War....
Yet another Great Day for Israel - and for Barmy Nutt&Yahoo.
It ain't really war 'till the ICBM's fly across the Persian Gulf!
An even Greater Day for Israel!
And what day ain't it a good day to be tribal?
Aaaand the price of gold surges ... right back *down* about $17 or $18. I think "plunge" might be the right word, not "surge." Funny how it always goes. Down, I mean.
The Houthis (Arabic: ???????? al-??thiyy?n), also known as Ansar Allah (an??ru ll?hi ????? ???? "Supporters of God") are a Zaidi Shia group operating in Yemen. The group takes its name from Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, who launched an insurgency in 2004 and was reportedly killed by Yemeni army forces that September.
Oh noes.another boggeyman under the bed,
I never trusted beady eyed Hootie & the Blowfish!
Fo sho, and what the hell is that guy up to these days? Thinks he's the fucking 2nd coming of Charlie Pride or what?
So the US has successfully put down the groundwork for another war in the Middle East by its interference in Yemen like in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Balkans.
The US elites can rejoice at more death and destruction, and rivers of blood.
Their hands are dripping with the blood of millions.
If there is any justice in this world then we might just come to see a war crimes trial for US leaders.
The American people must have lost their souls to support the evil crimes of the US government.
Ok ... you convinced me! I'll vote for 'It's My Turn' Hill the Pill in '16!
Iraq’s Shia militias are beating back ISIS. But are they the country’s next big threat?
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/25/8290165/iraq-shia-militias
no - the USraelis are Iraq's biggest threat....
ditto syria
http://america-hijacked.com/2012/08/11/the-yinon-thesis-vindicated-neoco...
Can someone just fuck these Saudis up please?
I'd ride a 10 speed in the snow because I couldn't afford gas, but it would be worth it.
Yep. The part I liked best was the guy who said "death to al-asad". I wish he had said death to bibby, bammy and rest of the bankster/mic puppets.
They should PPV this shit, money to be had. This will be the biggest retahd fight on the playground in years, and bonus of bonuses, all la snackbar given their all on both sides.
I just hope it gets to the point where they wrap kids in blankets and have them roll in front of the tanks to clear the mines, like the Iranians did about 30 years ago. WINNING!
Anybuddy know who the good guys are & who are the bad guys? Or if it matters?
Bad guys = Anybody invading a sovereign nation= Saudi Arabia, Egypt, US
Don't expect any crocodile tears from me for any American grunt who is willing to carry out D.C. agenda and looses life or limb.
the truth comes out, when it's sunni vs shia, you get plenty of muslims to fight.
if it's isis killing Christians, and other me. rif-raf, muslims sit back and watch, and fund them.
as far as the us, you couldn't keep it from running up the mic tab, especially in a recession, with the BIS, a gun in one hand, and a loan application in the other.
Does that mean the Fed is gonna drop rates?
I love the photo of the prancing monkey troops with the green camo-painted faces.
Apparently there is a jungle out there somewhere.
They wouldn't stand a chance against the Village People back in the day!
It's because
1) the sticks were free, thanks to US taxpayers
2) all the cool kids do it (i.e, they watched "men with green faces" during the recruitment drive)
I've seen other pics of Palestinian "security" forces wearing full on green Ghillie suits. Would stick out in their environment just like a sore dick does in the pisser.
How did the one guy on the front line get out of the face paint? Must have mild skin allergy.
he's a muppet
Clearly, he was a Muslim, given his beard and moustache (vs. the rest of the bunch, anyway).
Blue Man Group breakin' bad!
This should be good. I love when Arabs hold the gun up over their heads behind a wall and spray.
That's actually how AK's are tested for accuracy--
Spray a 30 round mag from behind a CMU wall,
at a target 400 yards away, and hope that one round hits the target. /sarc
What side is Muhammad on?
Same side as Jesus or the Redshields during wartime:
BOTH Sides!
I wonder what the over/under is on blue on blue incidents for this goat rodeo?
so many sayanim out today.
re enforcing the sunni shia meme.
but the meme is like a mime act
when known that the house of saud are jewisher
when sisi of egypt is a jewisher
it all just becomes more greater israel reset
init
houthis are squaring off against Saudi, ISIS, al qaeda, and the US government is opposing them, eh?
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/06/the-machiavelian-threefold-game-of-the-...
The greatest trick the ZOG ever played....
" The aim is not to occupy Yemen but to weaken the Houthis and their allies until they enter negotiations for power-sharing, the officials said. "
Hahahaha :-D
Good luck with that....
( that is either: super-naive, or a lie. Either way, it doesn't end well. )
For once the US doesn't have to be the policeman. It's about time the Middle East starting minding their own messes.
Arab armies exist to provide the children of arab elites with pompous soundng careers as Grand Field Marshalls. The more abuse they inflict on their own troops, the better they feel about themselves. They are pretty useless in combat like soviet armies were at the start of operation Barbarossa.