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ISIS Makes Major Move In Yemen, Assassinates Aden's Governor After Executing Two Dozen Houthis
One point we’ve been keen on driving home as the war in Syria intensifies is that while the sheer number of combatants and the overt involvement of at least seven world powers certainly means that among the many conflicts raging in the Mid-East, the war in Syria is the fight that matters most for the non-Arab world, it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees.
That is, it’s critical to see the bigger picture here, and that entails understanding how Syria is related to the conflicts raging in Iraq, Yemen, and to a lesser extent, Afghanistan. Iran is determined to expand its regional influence. Tehran is the power broker in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and it’s no coincidence that the Houthis in Yemen are backed by the Iranians and neither is it a coincidence that Iran is rumored to be funneling weapons and money to its old enemy the Taliban in Afghanistan. This is about checking the spread of Sunni extremism and, concurrently, curtailing and diminishing Saudi influence. While Iran and the Taliban make for strange bedfellows (the militants are, after all, Sunni extremists), Tehran is determined to check the spread of Islamic State and with the IRGC, Hezbollah, and the Quds-controlled Shiite militias already fighting ISIS on two fronts (Syria and Iraq), the Ayatollah isn’t particularly thrilled about the prospect of an expanded ISIS presence on its eastern border. Supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan (with whom Iran nearly went to war in 1998), should help to check ISIS gains in the country and has the added benefit of keeping the US off guard which itself speaks to how quickly alliances can change as it was just 12 years ago that Iran assisted the US in picking Taliban and al-Qaeda targets (read more here).
As for ISIS, the official line is that everyone is an enemy. The Taliban are led by “illiterate warlords,” al-Qaeda are “a bunch of donkeys”, the Houthis are heretics as are the Iranians, the Saudis are just plain in the way in Yemen, and everyone else is an infidel. Of course there’s no telling what the group’s leadership really thinks given the support they undoubtedly receive from any number of states governed by “nonbelievers,” but we’ll leave that aside for now.
Ok, so why are we telling you this? Because on Sunday, ISIS killed the governor of the Yemeni port city of Aden in what amounts to the group’s most brazen attack in the country to date. As WSJ reports, “in a statement distributed on social media and translated by the extremist-tracking SITE Intelligence Group, an Aden-based branch of Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb that killed governor Jaafar Saad and several of his guards as his convoy traveled through the city.”
Sunday's explosion could be heard about 10 km (seven miles) away," Reuters reports. "Medics said the body of Saad and the others who were killed were burned beyond recognition."
In a statement ISIS said it detonated a car packed with explosives as Saad's convoy drove by. The group promised more operations against "the heads of apostasy in Yemen". Here's the statement:
Recall that Aden was a major battleground during the spring and it was also the site of China’s first naval rescue operation involving foreign nationals. The Houthis nearly took control of the city earlier this year after driving President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi out of the country, but a summer offensive by the Saudi-led, UAE- and Qatar- assisted coalition drove the rebels back. Now, the coalition wants to retake San’a.
As WSJ goes on to note, “Mr. Saad, a major general in Yemen’s army, was a prominent figure among pro-Saudi forces in Aden before his appointment as governor in October.” Here’s a bit more color:
Islamic State and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, have both exploited the instability to carry out attacks and make territorial gains.
Numerous Islamic State branches have sprouted since the Saudi campaign began. Twin attacks by Islamic State militants on Houthi mosques in San’a killed more than 140 people in March.
Islamic State attacks have targeted the Houthis and the Saudi coalition, both of which the group considers enemies.
This comes just days after Wilayat Aden Abyan (you can identify the origin of ISIS videos by whatever comes after the word "Wilayat" in the introduction that always precedes the clip) released a video depicting the execution of around two dozen Houthis.
We'll spare you the footage, but here are some screenshots that should give you a decent idea of the fate that befell the men.
What this suggests is that ISIS is now set to expand its influence in Yemen. Remember, the country's proxy war is really no different in character to what's going on in Syria. The distinction is that in Yemen, Iran is fighting via proxy while the Saudis and Qatar are there in person while in Syria, Iran has boots on the ground while the Saudis and Qatar are fighting via proxies.
Of course one of Riyadh and Doha's proxies in the Syrian conflict is ISIS, and as mentioned above, the group is now targeting the Saudi coalition's support base in Aden which would seem to indicate - and this is a colorful metaphor we've used before - that this is but another example of Frankenstein breaking out of the lab and attacking its creators. Whether or not an expanded ISIS presence in Yemen will benefit the Saudi cause largely depends on whether the Houthis become Islamic State's main target in the country, or whether they intend to wage a protracted war against pro-Hadi forces.
Given the sectarian divide, we're inclined to believe that the Houthis will get the worst of this and that's just fine with Riyadh and Doha as anything that weakens Iran's proxies helps to restore Hadi by default.
And you never know, it could be that much like the cost of destabilizing Assad involves the loss of civilian lives in places like Paris and in the skies over the Sinai Peninsula, the cost of having one more anti-Houthi force on the ground in Yemen is that occasionally a few pro-Hadi government officials end up vaporized in a car bombing, because at the end of the day, covertly supporting groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda (who of course are also operating in Yemen) is a bit like raising tigers as pets - you can foster quite a bit of loyalty over time, but there's always a chance they might kill you.
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Oh well, I guess YEMEN is now off our list of places to visit as tourists. And with such a history and scenic marvels. I wish I had gone there when I was in Egypt back in 1984 with my cousin.
Well, there's always a fine tourist visit to Little Rock with it's historic sights and famous people like Bill "I did no have sex with that woman" Clinton.
Upstate NY too..
USSA/Saudi Controlled ISIS headchopper pets Makes Major Move In Yemen, Assassinates Aden's Governor After Executing Two Dozen Houthis
There, fixed the headline for you.
IS.IL just killed a pro-Saudi governor. Mistake?
Or false flag to justify a forceful response by Saudi against Iran-leaning Yemen?
Gosh, another failure for gun free zones.
And, all of their O'Blammie gun control measures didn't work out too well either.
Let all the Yemenies get to migrate to Chicago.
One weekend there, and they will be begging to go back to the safety of their homeland.
Same for the Syrians.
Maybe open up Baltimore , Philadelphia, New York, and all of Connecticut to them, and they will go home to Syria for safety real fast, too.
C'mon, lets be honest, none of us would ever visit Aden or Yemen if our mothers lives depended on it. I'll bet 95% of Americans couldn't even find Aden, or Yemen for that matter, on a map.
Or Viet Nam, for that matter. This is why, for Americans, every new war is an expensive geography lesson, quickly forgotten.
I'm going to Chi-raq. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has really done wonders with the place. I hear West Garfield Park is particularly beautiful this time of year.
GO BEARS!
HECK!!!! Most Americans can't find their own state on a map, let alone Aden or Yemen!!!!! Nice picture of a nice Latina!!!!!!
Sadly that might be true. I worked with a guy that had some college credits and a smart phone who couldn't even locate on a map of the eastern US where we were located when I needed to know where he went on a jobsite.
Could.not.fucking.believe.it.
Unfortunately, the cradle of civilization has been maimed, looted and is now sadly shot to hell.
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Just become a section 8 right? Or buy foreclosures and turn them into section 8 properties....
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Could we please use the correct name, 'CIA + Mossad + Gulf State intelligence service paties'? Mere 'ISIS' does't convey enough context.
That is necessary context for considering the insanity in the world, along with "9/11 was a false flag operation by the US government under the control of Israeli-Neocons". Note that the leaders of the Gulf States, including the Saudi Monarchy and the Saudi clergy, don't look real good to the world from this affair, they have even fewer fans than before, the world is uniting against them.
They are now desperate, losing, and normal politics will result in many dozens of leaders around the world being hung, and 100s more spending the rest of their life in prison.
Whatever the specifics of the local history, the distal responsibility for the chaos rests on the Israeli-Necons and allies. These are a rational engineer considering the problems.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/the-next-false-flag/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-our-dreyfus-affair/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/about-the-massive-psyops/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-the-weak-spot/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/engineers-theory-of-mind/
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/166/
9/11 was a False Flag operation by the Israeli-Neocons in the US Government
I think the proper acronym is CUMGUZLRZ.
Not sure it will catch on with the media though.
I keep coming back to the rule of a little bit pregnant.
And for the rule I have to give you a +
The signs of pregnancy and the truth just can't be denied.
And you can bet if it's showing signs of pregnant it means someone(country) got FUCed.
Putin voted FOR the sanctions, denial of arms and naval blockade against the Houthis in Yemen.
Only Iran has tried to give support.
Just like Russia voted for the sanctions and no-fly zone on Libya years ago.
Total BS
Here's vote on Libya:
Adopting resolution 1973 (2011) by a vote of 10 in favour to none against, with 5 abstentions (Brazil, China, Germany, India, Russian Federation), the Council authorized Member States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country, including Benghazi,
Here's vote on Houthi rebels:
"Fourteen members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, Russia being the only abstention.
The Russian representative explained the move by saying that not all of Moscow’s proposals had been included in the final text drafted by Jordan and Gulf Arab states.
"The co-sponsors refused to include the requirements insisted upon by Russia addressed to all sides to the conflict to swiftly halt fire and to begin peace talks," Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the council after the vote."
Great catch. Those kind of statements smack of psyops propaganda. Blank one do your research before you regurgitate propaganda, unless you get paid to repost it I would hope you retract it.
The most you can do is change the wording to "consented to" as in abstained. Putin could have prevented the sanctions and naval blockade against Yemen but took the path (as Russia often does) of consenting to the attack through sanctions. Yep, that is all it would have taken, just a no vote against the sanctions. But that was too much to ask. Now, is that fear or is Putin a party to their plan.
"Russia abstained Tuesday from a United Nations Security Council vote which led to the blacklisting of the son of Yemen's former president and a Houthi leader, and effectively imposed an arms embargo on the Iran-allied Houthi rebels who rule most of the country."
Putin went along with the blacklisting, sanctions, arms embargo (which led to the naval blockade) and attack on the Houthi of Yemen.
With friends like Putin who needs ?
Want to talk about what Russia did to Libya?
Oh, at as we can all see the arms embargo only applies to the Houthi. The other factions attacking the Houthi are well supplied in the open.
Valiant but futile effort....no where in the article is Russia/Putin even mentioned...you're too obvious..
That was when Russia thought it was in the 'club'.
Well, Iran got it's gold back so it can afford to spread influence.
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/obama-authorizes-13-tons-of-gold-released...
Is this the same Yemen that was Obama's example of his successful war on terror?
"Isis is contained."
~ Barry Hussein O'Bama
what a fucking mess.
aka, clusterfuck
Can't wait for Obozo to tell us tonight how ISIS is on the run, all
due to his due dilligence,on the back 9.
Yeah I know the real truth, but even the narcissist in chief is going to have trouble
spinning this.Should be amusing, in a poking sticks at the inmates sort of way.
The law of uninteded consequences seems to still work just fine.
no no no - he is going to say they are getting stronger becuse of Global Warming [hoax] and the US needs more gun control to make us safe from terrorists.
And both of you are likely hasbara trying hard to put the conversation back into the frame of 'ISIS is horrible Muslim terrorists' away from 'ISIS is CIA + Mossad + Gulf States and our supplies, leadership and money. Oh, btw, all the rulers in the gulf are personally getting very wealthy from all of this, while 100s of 1000s die'.
There. That is the context, the frame that we all need to evaluate this situation.
9/11 is the only problem the world has, nothing else can be fixed until that is taken care of. including Global Warming, if that turns out to be real.
Did you ever learn to read, or did you just go straight to writing.
Your constant pimping of your own blog is getting tiresome.
Bring something to the table or fuck off.
SMFH, seen it last night. Let's stop calling them ISIS or ISIL and call them JSIL like the Joo World Order proxy force they are...
Soooo, the CIA is doubling down, got it. ISIS is contained..., lol.
ISIS, Saudi Arabia, what's the fucking difference? Saudi's want what Yemen has: OIL
Saudi Arabia is running out of oil and the populace is getting restless. So, start something in your neighbors backyard and start siphoning their oil. Simple really...
ISIS's attack against "Saudi Arabia" in Aden is just a necessary illusion to maintain the perception that ISIS is somehow not a puppet of Riyadh. Sacrificing a few pawns. Even if this is indeed a case of Frankenstein, I shed no tears for Saudi Arabia.
Yemen has little oil left. If anything it is the other way around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Yemen
"The World Bank predicts that Yemen's oil and gas revenues will plummet during 2009 and 2010, and fall to zero by 2017 as supplies run out"
Which ever department of the US you're detained by - you're going to end up in an orange jumpsuit.
ISIS = CIA
Speakig of Frankenstein escaping...
I read 3/400 pages of Dirty Wars. I didn't finish it because it was ridiculously detailed and long. Scahill is not a concise writer. For example, Scahill includes the detail that some US general for JSOc only eats one meal a day and runs religiously. The book is a solid 800 pages.
Anyway...
There was a lot of interesting stuff about Yemen. Apparently the head of Yemen would frequently jerk around America as well as some of the other usual middle east subjects like Saudi Arabia. This inability to be a pawn to the US frequently frustrated America.
It is just funny the arrogant stupidity of these people. This is partly why I'm not really a ''conspiracy theorist.' I am well aware of the epic incompetence of these people. They can't manage a bunch of igorant rebel apes. How can they plan a solid conspiracy?
If you are, however inadvertently, supporting the idea that 9/11 could not have been that conspiracy, I want to tell you how very wrong you are.
9/11 was done very well. The phone calls from the airplanes, was especially good. Also a complete lie, as the FBI had to admit, but a nice touch and everyone believed.
Those phone calls now are a little smoking gun in themselves, but MSM pretends not to see.
9/11 is the very weak point in the Israeli-neocon takeover ofthe government. It is the smoking gun, right out in the open, very welll-documented in the Architect and Engineers for 9/11 Truth videos. And the firefighters and the military and pilots and... Nobody with a brain who has attended to the voluminous evidence produced by veyr solid people believes the gov story, and from that we know that nobody in the world of intelligence has believed it since day 1.
Rethink your assumptions, if you are more than hasbara.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-the-weak-spot/
9/11 was a False Flag operation by the Israeli-Neocons in the US Government
Isn't it awesome at the love and peace that is exhibited by islam?
Necklaces and boat rides.
Given how our Israeli-Neocons have killed 100s of 1000s of them directly and inidrectly while trying to take over the world, I believe the case could be made that our control of the world's media is working very well in keeping so few of them attack the correct enemy.
If you don't grasp this, go look at the evidence, ae911Truth.com, etc. There is no room for doubt, no wiggling out of the fact.
9/11 was a False Flag operation by the Israeli-Neocons in the US Government
The first 300 times you posted that I wasn't really convinced, but the 301st repetition did it for me. Those damn Zionists!!`!!``1111
Still waiting for them to pour gas down someone's throat then set them on fire.
Oh wait, that's an Israeli speciality.
http://nodisinfo.com/rabid-zionist-jews-burnt-palestinian-youth-alive/
The world should strike and not accept or allow any oil to flow out of the ME until they clean up their mess. If they want to kill each other in the process, so be it but we should not be part of it. Shut the whole fucking place down, now. And no more weapons/arms/ammo allowed into the region. Embargo all of it.
This is confusing. Daesh is funded by the Saudis, and it's hard to believe that it would turn on its sustainers. There must be more to this story.
Also, it's not good ol' Dr. Frankenstein that esapes, it's his monster, who then turns against his creator!
https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.m.tooley/posts/10204919284284164
hmmmm
So Islam is a religion of peace, right? Or is it piece(s)?
Just a thought, How many variants of christianty are you aware of? Think Ireland and then everywhere else and how they hate each other... Take away their tax exemptions and watch what happens.
I am getting tired of this horseshit....
I still want to see GOD in court to scientifically prove he, she it or whatever can prove they exist.... I am not holding my breath.
"I still want to see the pot maker in court to scientifically prove he, she it or whatever can prove they exist...." said a pot.
What's amazing to me is that there are still people who believe "all religions are good" including english queen, who uttered those exeact words few years back. And there is about 50% of people here who believe the same crap, which is obvious from the number of votes for your post. Islam is the only religion that can't have any peace with any other religion.
Obviously, this calls for tighter car bomb control.
The man ignores the Yemen war...kinda strange since stories about Saudi bases being captured have been floating around on Fars news.
Please Stop Using ISIS!
Isis is a goddess and not an name-icon for terror.
Every third phrase has ISIS.
See: Hello! My Name Is Isis.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n0s2zrBiBOU/VlzM6MdqrZI/AAAAAAAACo0/Ogb4N0SkDpw/s1600/Isis.jpg
um - goddesses aren't real.
us/israeli backed psycho mercenaries, however, are.
Don't worry
It is all fake
It is a false flag
The gov is just trying to scare you
lie down
go to sleep
ISIS is a US/Israeli Zionist proxy. Let me ask you all this - why is it we see SITE intelligence, run by a known Mossad sayanim, over and over in telling us the news about isis - but no one else. There is no other, more reliable source? No confirming source? Why isn't it obvious bullshit to people?
How do you know that ISIS is truly composed of Salafist takfiri psychos rather than dirt poor canon fodder sold a line of bullshit [remember all the runaways - people who want to see allah dont do that].
How do you know isis isnt Acadami/private mercs lead by cia speacial ops, mossad, SAS, Mi%, Saudi intel, etc etc mingled in with true believer useful idiots?
Why have there been no captures of isis leaders, or documents, or tracing of its money in banks. Why has the flow of weapons been steady?
How do you know that "ISIS" exists, or did the attacks here? All you know is that "ISIS" never attacks Israel, or Jews, or their interests. EVER. And now there's been some propaganda about Hamas helping ISIS in Sinai, which is preposterous - but Israel wants an excuse to go into Sinai at some point.
Sooner or later some plucky boy or girl is going to realize that to defeat ISIS you need to attack Israel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
It's not just the ISIS news Johnny. All of the MSM outlets, and the agencies feeding them, parrot the same stories and are owned by the same type of people.
Meh.
JJH
Heeeeres......Johnny Jew Hater and his ZH hordes!!! Da da da da da....
To bad Yemen doesn't have that much oil or we would be all over them "helping" them...
Bomb Riyadh.
Maybe the Houthis were making good of gains against Saudi and the head choppers were called in to slow them down a bit?
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940914001171
Yeah like you'd just stand there while they string a mortar around your neck. What're they gonna do if you struggle -- shoot you? I'd like to see the video, as the screen-grabs look a little Monty Python-esque. Anybody have a link?
Remember the USS Cole!
Yeah they would be getting ready to try something. The posture of those men standing that are supposedly approaching death is all wrong too, even if they were drugged. No signs of adrenaline, fear, dispair... just standing there like dipshits. There mothers would be really proud of their posture though.
Here's McCain smiling??? about the "profit/loss equation" of Death by ISIS in the recent Paris event. A mere $10,000 according to "somebody". I'm pretty sure he meant cost/benefit analysis. But them again he's smiling at the low cost and big benefits of murdering people so who knows what he's thinking.
In addition to the US & EU infiltrations, he includes yet another specific emphasized reference to NYC being a primary target (predictive programming) of ISIS. He also goes on to say ISIS has rapidly spreading like the plague throughout the middle east to Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt and elsewhere. In case you're wondering he's long false flags, death, fear and chaos all resulting in big profits.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?401471-1/christian-science-monitor-breakfas...
I know this has nothing to do with this story, but I remembered a long ago incident in the history of Yemen which is quite interesting
In 1978 when Yemen was divided into two separate countries, North Yemen and South Yemen, the President of South Yemen send a message to the President of North Yemen with a message inside a locked briefcase. The briefcase actually had a bomb, and when it was opened, it killed both the messenger and the President of North Yeman
ISIS attacks in Yemen!!!
Who'da thunk that would happen (/sarc) after Turkey facilitates the transfer of 500+ headchoppers from Syria?
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151027/1029190132/isil-militants-yem...
see also
http://geopolitics.co/2015/10/29/saudi-arabias-blitzkrieg-on-syria-capit...
Google search - isis militants flying to yemen - for more.
... and from the MSM ... <<crickets>>
This alphabet soup of state sponsored terror sure helps to confuse things. Then the bastards start turncoating and forget it, they all start to blend together. It doesn't help that MSM changes their acronyms every 6-12 months either.
Were the guys on the boat going deep sea fishing? ICE-SEES must be expanding their tourism.
They were about to hide their gold.
Yemen is a Sunni shithole.
Who cares?
Yemen refugees to the US next?
Why not turn the US into a shithole too?
I still wouldn't care.
What's strange is the relative quiet between the Southern Baptists and the Catholics. How long are they going to put up with the bloody Papists taking over their country?
https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.m.tooley/posts/10204919284284164
The Terror Marathon hosted by none other than Dick "Democracy" Cheney and featuring his KIDS - ISIS. Please contribute, his kids desperately need rocket launchers, ManPads, and suitcase nukes...And here's Dickey - the brilliant statesman who was going to turn the Mideast into Iowa...
Reports appear to suggest that the Yemeni Army / Houthis alliance can muster a million armed irregulars. They are likely to prevail. Or of course it could just be complete bollocks. Or not.
Most likely with the help of Saudi Arabia.
Interesting to me is that nobody talks about the villages and bases inside Saudi Arabia now occupied by Yemen Army and Houthis.
But western media trumpets the grisly murders of ISIS probably conducted in Hollywood.
It is almost like western media has become promoting agents for ISIS.
Looks like the more instability that happens in the Middle East - the more that ISIS is growing. Unfortunately, Paris and San Bernadino have been excellent "recruiting publicity" for ISIS. It is impossible to stop the media from grovelling at these scenes of horror.
The one piece of data that we never see ... how many new recruits are joining ISIS every week?
I am becoming skeptical that the Saudi Government can resist ISIS. There are too many hardline Wahabbi's inside their own borders. That 'kingdom' could flip very quickly from a Saudi monarchy into an ISIS state.