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More Than 100 Saudi-Led Airstrikes Hit Yemen
A Saudi-led coalition struck northern provinces of Yemen on Saturday in a third consecutive night of heavy air strikes, the Houthi rebels said, following their shelling this week of Saudi border areas.
More than 100 air strikes hit areas of Saada and Hajjah provinces, including the districts of Haradh, Maidi and Bakil al-Mir, the Houthis said. It was not possible to independently verify the number or location of strikes.
Other strikes targeted Sanaa airport’s runway, an official there said, and Houthi targets in the al-Sadda district of Ibb in central Yemen, residents there said.
The coalition has bombarded the Houthis and army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh since March 26, but had eased back on the strikes in late April and on Friday offered a five-day truce starting on May 12 if other parties agreed.
The Saudis and nine other Arab countries, backed by the United States, Britain and France, hoped to force the Houthis back to their northern heartland and restore the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is in Riyadh.
The Houthis are mainly drawn from the Zaydi sect of Shi’ite Islam that predominates in Yemen’s northern highlands and took advantage of political chaos to seize the capital Sanaa and then advance further south over the past year, aided by Saleh.
Riyadh fears the Houthis will act as a proxy for their main regional rival, Shi’ite Iran, to undermine Saudi security, and that their advance into Sunni regions will add a sectarian edge to the civil war, strengthening an al Qaeda group in Yemen.
Iran and the Houthis deny there are funding, arming or training efforts by Tehran, and regional analysts say the rebel group is unlikely ever to become an all-out proxy for the Islamic Republic in the mould of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday said the campaign was the work of an “inexperienced” government that did not understand the region’s politics. “It is not a war but an unfair bombing attack on a neighbor,” state news agency IRNA quoted him as saying in an address to members of the Red Crescent relief agency.
One Comment on "More Than 100 Saudi-Led Airstrikes Hit Yemen"
BobInget on Sun, 10th May 2015 11:12 am
“The Saudis and nine other Arab countries, backed by the United States, Britain and France, hoped to force the Houthis back to their northern heartland and restore the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is in Riyadh”.
IOW’s restore a Saudi puppet president.
Interfering in any neighboring nation’s politics is doomed to failure. History tells us so.
Add air attacks killing thousands of civilians, destroying infrastructure of one of the world’s poorest states by the region’s richest country, are ‘war crimes’.
Having destroyed all ‘prime targets’ in the first week of this endless war, Saudi Arabia
began indiscriminate bombing, outside the area of battle, Northern Yemen, slaughtering
thousands in their beds.
Genocide crime rises above all others.
ALL Yemeni are innocent victims of Saudi aggression. Israeli lawyers or other Saudi Allies might make a case for killing ‘on the battlefield’ is ‘legal’ in twisted logic of laws of war. For Bombing Indigenous peoples in their homes, there is no excuse.
Yes, the US ‘overlooks’ while
one of the world’s leading oil suppliers perpetrates disgusting criminal acts daily. No, Muslim populations world-wide, are most certainly Not ‘looking away’.
Saudi Arabia is doing a great disservice to
the Islamic faith perpetuating the meme of
Muslim on Muslim violence. (expressly forbidden in Koranic teachings.
WE hope other Arab and Persian nations
rebuke Saudi Arabia diplomatically.
WE would like to see other members of KSA’s ‘collation’ resign from participation.
Failing to do so further undermines any efforts to portray Islam as a peaceful religion.
The US placed so called ‘sanctions’ on Russia for aggressions in Ukraine.
The US sanctioned Iran because nuclear tipped Israel chooses to deny Iran nuclear weapons.
sanction
[sangk-shuh n]
Spell Syllables
Synonyms Examples Word Origin
noun
1.
authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
2.
something that serves to support an action, condition, etc.
3.
something that gives binding force, as to an oath, rule of conduct, etc.
4.
Law.
a provision of a law enacting a penalty for disobedience or a reward for obedience.
the penalty or reward.
5.
International Law. action by one or more states toward another state calculated to force it to comply with legal obligations.
verb (used with object)
6.
to authorize, approve, or allow:
an expression now sanctioned by educated usage.
7.
to ratify or confirm:
to sanction a law.
8.
to impose a sanction on; penalize, especially by way of discipline.
At he same time, the US SANCTIONS Saudi Arabia’s bombing of Yemen. Does anyone here see the disconnect?
By permitting genocide, we are all as guilty
as every Saudi citizen.
In decades to come, as now, government
sponsored terrorism; robotic, disproportionate (asymmetrical) warfare becomes the norm, we’ve become less civilized, eventually, self destructive.