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What’s REALLY Going On In Yemen
Confused about the war in Yemen?
Here’s what’s really going on …
Yemen – previously called “Aden” – has one of the oldest civilizations in the Middle East. But it has been racked with violence for a long time.
In the 1960s, a pro-Arab nationalist faction clashed with the British – who wanted Yemen to become a Western-controlled natural resource hub – and devolved into brutal fighting, with both sides using terrorism.
Yemen’s first president – Saleh – was in power from 1990 to 2012. The U.S supported Saleh, but Saleh was a double-dealing scoundrel.
The Arab Spring protests ousted Saleh, and America helped broker immunity for prosecution in return for his leaving office.
Saleh was corrupt and tyrannical. As the Telegraph reports:
For years, the Americans saw President Ali Abdullah Saleh as a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda. He allowed his air bases to be used by US drones to strike at the movement’s operatives, and gladly received Western aid in development cash and arms supplies.
Yet according to claims in a United Nations report last month, one of the first things Mr Saleh did when his three-decade rule was threatened by the 2011 Arab Spring was strike a secret deal to give an entire southern province to al-Qaeda. The more he could portray Yemen as falling into militant hands, he calculated, the more the West want to keep him in office at all costs.
The U.S. brokered Saleh’s replacement by Yemen’s current president, Hadi. Hadi was a long-time high-level assistant to Saleh.
The presidential election “ballot” had only one choice … Hadi:

The opposition which took over the country – the Houthis (also called “Zaydis”) – are violent fundamentalist idiots. Yes, they are closer to Shiites (like the majority in Iran) than Sunnis (like Saudi Arabia). But they are virtually indistinguishable from Sunni fundamentalist terrorists in their behavior:
Although a Shi’a group, Zaydi theological differences with Sunnis are few ….
Hadi is such a traitor to his own Yemeni people that he is calling for a foreign power – Saudi Arabia – to keep bombing Yemen until his opposition is defeated.
But – here’s the kicker – guess who is behind the Houthi revolt that led to the taking over Yemen from Hadi?
If you guessed Iran, you’re wrong.
It's deposed president Saleh! He's baaaaaaack!
Indeed, the reason that the Houthis were able to take over the country so quickly is that many of the troops and police are still loyal to Saleh. So – at Saleh’s instruction – while the Houthis advanced, the soldiers and guards simply walked away from their posts when Saleh told them to scram.
Bottom line: There are no saints in this conflict …
Many are calling this a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. But it’s not.
Initially, Saudi Arabia is directly bombing Yemen. It’s not doing so through a proxy.
Moreover, while Iran is sending the Houthis some money, this is really a power struggle between two corrupt idiots: Saleh and Hadi. Iran is not very involved.
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Keep it destabilsed for the control of Oil, Oil traffic, $ hegemony and arms sales. If People in your own land are just preys for other games, why does it matter with People afar ?
Is this really a proxy war ? Or is it let the outbursts happen and seize it as an opportunity. Today Yemen, tomorrow other sweet spots.
Until the apex of the Empire is destroyed, the 90% are all preys running from traps to traps. Good Going because globalization has not united the preys while racial, religious, cultural pulls are fed their steroids.
There are no 'Hadi loyalists'. He's a corrupt U.S./Saudi puppet. There are only areas of Yemen that are so sparsely populated that there isn't armed opposition to him. Most Yemen Sunnis hate both al-Qaeda and Hadi and are OK with the Houthis.
A large part of the current Yemen army (supposedly Hadi-loyalists by the map) are also rebelling against the corrupt Hadi and are fighting side-by-side with the Houthis. The cities they supposedly 'take over' involve almost no fighting and no civilian casualties. The people support them and they protect the people. Hadi's mercenaries are the only ones shooting back at the Houthis and Yemen army before they run away.
The so-called Southern Movement is non-military and mostly another contrived U.S./Saudi Yemen Spring III (the other two failed). It's the old South Yemen border that was drawn to exclude the Houthis. Which is fine by the Houthis, but it was also drawn to include all oil and gas bearing lands in the East and all ports on both coasts. In other words, the borders were drawn to create a land-locked Gaza concentration camp for the Houthis and is being used as a template for a new Western-approved version of North/South Yemen.
The Houthis don't want to run Yemen at all, nor do they want more/different territory. They just want to get rid of al Qaeda, get rid of the corrupt Hadi and his U.S./Saudi cronies and create a workable Yemen. Which is exactly the same reason most of the Yemen army has joined them in a rebellion - they hate al Qaeda and Hadi, too. Most other Yemenis are too poor to give a fuck either way. The supposed U.S.-run drone campaign against al Qaeda is a joke - they've kept expanding ever since the U.S. started bombing them. The U.S. is probably supplying them, too.
warlord vs warlord vs warlord
strategically this is part of the struggle for the east coast of Africa, Somalia, which is already run by Al Qaeda. Islam has been displacing Christian tribal groups. across the red sea from Yemen is Sudan, where Islamic fundamentalists JanJaWeed militia genocided people in Darfur. (this after Chinese oil companies poured money and power into the hands of the government at Khartoum) now with $20 oil the strategic necessity to defend these places is less important. the global war on terror is only played when certain connections like Iran - Yemen, can be made in the furtherment of some other deal. the news media licks it up like obediant little puppies. SA is being pressured from all sides, mostly from the side of deflation in oil prices. their days are numbered, and maybe it is only the CIA who cares. a radicalized Africa is not in their global interest. the neocon vision of hegemony from Africa to Central is vanishing quickly. to the CIA it means there are fewer places we can go, and if we can't go somewhere, we are blind as far as information gathering, it becomes problematic.
"Can't we all just get along?" - Rodney King
So.... Washington is basing this article on information from the NY Times? The same cheer-leading NYT that has consistently run cover for Obama on key issues, like right now when Obama would love to whitewash Iran's involvement in the Middle East chaos? I wouldn't rush to let Iran off the hook here. I would ask "who is driving the Houthis?". How does Saleh have ANY resources to make war. Wash, you love to point out puppet-masters, but you're willing to buy this kind of propaganda from NYT? Seriously?
How is this not a proxy war? Iran arming an insurgency in an effort to stir up unrest and a power vacuum that they can fill with their man, just like the USA have done hundreds of times before? This is why Egypt and the Saudis are involved. Saleh just wants to play dictator, he doesn't care who funds him. Iran and Saleh probably both believe that they are using the other and planning how to deal them out of the game ASAP. This makes AT LEAST as much sense as your assertions.
Agreed. Iran is supporting the Huthis.
An aside, "Hutthis" reminds me of the Huttsies of Rwanda, those that fought the Tootsie's. Not relevant, just reminds me of the same sort of tribal crap.
ALL islamic cult worshipers are macroscopic pathogenic organisms and should be autoclaved like any microscopic pathogenic organisms.
Best strategy is to promote conflict among their spontaneous combustible factions, supplying weapons to all sides, accelerating their destroying each other's populations and infrastucture, then overwhelm the survivors with massive carpet bombing using napalm, fuel-air, and nerve agents. Then repopulate the lands with civilized modern humans.
I usually reserve that type of sentiment for New York city, Washington, D.C., and large swaths of the West Coast.
Are there honorable rats left in Yemen? The American rats fled. What's left is a failed state created from North Yemen and Aden. Some of its earlier twentieth Century history can read here. http://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0112/011230.html Yemen continues as playing piece in the world power game.
I have the impression we are about to let go of Saudi Arabia.
Consider that the US Army has, for the second time, omitted to disable military equipment that was left behnd in Iraq and in Yemen in quantities sufficient to arm a small army.
Consider that Saudi is no longer the "swing producer" it had been in the past
Consider that in invading Iraq to bring democracy by dismantling the administration and army, we guaranteed that the majority of Iraq (Shia'a) would take over violently
Consider the West's apparent rapprochment with Iran
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I put it all together and I think we'll see the first Saudi refugees crossing into Jordan and Dubai in the next few months
Do not underestimate Irans involvement! Iran is the squid of the middle-east terror network.
Who benefits from this? Well, one output is higher oil prices. Another is more military hardware sold. A third is that this has become a distraction from all the other crises occurring around the globe.
It's about initiating a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which the neocon PNAC zio revolutionaries hope will lead to the destruction of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the only two stable regimes left in the mideast that they haven't laid waste to.
Mission accomplished.
And in the background :
http://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/yemen-oil-production-a...
from : http://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/04/05/how-oil-exporters-reach-financial-c...
Btw the fuel price rise was a key element in the beginning of the uprising (the one from 2011, as in Egypt, and the current one).
but most of it is really controlled by central bankers and the IMF
"Hadi was a long-time high-level assistant to Hadi."
WTF?
Hadi assisted himself? Who edits this crap?
The situation is confusing enough without trying to decypher 'analysis'.
Well I'd say he assisted himself to whatever loot was available.
It sounds confusing, but don't let it fool you. That is how they do things there. Just imagine what you can get away with by claiming you are your own high level assistant, to say nothing of the opportunities for bribes ;-)
LoL!
Assisting himself, is the only way he can have sex!
Every married man resembles that remark.
This is not about minerals, as in Afghanistan. This is not about huge oil wells, as in Iraq. IMO this is about the war between two Muslim factions i.e. Sunni and Shia.
These two factions have been in conflict ever since Muslim religion came into existence. If you Google news and read articles, you'll know what I'm talking..
Like most others, I'm media driven, concluded above after reading various articles.. please correct me if I'm wrong....
May peace prevail everywhere..
Conflict between Shia and Sunni is actively promoted by the Zionists to keep Israel's enemies from uniting.
There had been numerous clashes between Sunni and Shia hundreds of years ago, but during the 20th century before 1970 there was relative calm. The Israelis poured alcohol into a wound which was starting to heal.
Khomeini actively tried to promote harmony between Sunni and Shia - an outcome which of course would make it more likely that Islam would provide a united front against a common enemy, Israel.
The Sunni/Shia/Alawite "civil war" in Syria is not native to Syria but rather an invention of the Zionist neo-cons, just like their invention called ISIS for a "Greater Caliphate" - major efforts by the Anglo Zionists to expand a civil war within Islam, all to promote the general strategy of chaos so favored by Oded Yinon for the glory of a "Greater Israel", an "island of calm within a sea of chaos".
The "Sunni and Shia have been at odds forever" meme is disingenous. The Mossad and their lackeys at CIA and MI6 do everything they can to fan the flames...
Relative calm existed under Ottoman rule. it wasn't heaven but everyone knew the rules. You want to build a church? You pay. Build a temple, open a business? You pay. Colonialism, and the gaming of the several Islamic movements, such as Wahabism, by European powers led to the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. Then, of course, came the Sykes-Picot, geometric, longitude/latitude drawing of artificial nations roughly based on the Ottoman rail lines (Transjordan anyone?).
Look at the world map, wherever you see a big, rectangular country you're probably looking at a future screaming, bloody, cluster fuck.
Here's a small history of the Pan Arabic movement started a century ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Arabism
PanArabism has been replaced by the Sunni/Shiite conflicts as secularism has been defeated by theology in the Arab world. Kind of like the Christian Fundamentalist/Zionist alliance has overrode the secular constitutionalism of the USA.... Nothing ahead but more moronic religious conflict... not a whiff of secular accomodation anywhere... it is deemed traitorous to seek peace through negotiation.
"May peace prevail everywhere.."
Except in Saudi Arabia. May war, pestilence and plague bedevil them until they're all wiped out.
Peace through death?
Shit. It's been tried and failed...
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
For them, death is not a permanent solution.
religion>beliefs>set of code>killing not allowable, (except when others don't believe as we do)>hypocracy>war>back to religion and code of beliefs. kill for their beliefs against their code of beliefs, fucking bullshit, religion and its' fools that follow. reminds me of economics. damn smart people believing dumb stuff(ie keynsians). so conclusion is simple:smarts humans are dumb fucks. in fact the moar educated the moar likely to be in the elite PTB but lacking common sense. JMFO!
You forget greed. This is why we kill each other. Religion is like a gun. It does nothing on its own. You are born with greed. You have to pick up religion or a gun.
There can never be peace everywhere there are humans. One human will want to have more than others and control them too.