Posted on 03/25/2015 9:15:56 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Yemen's crisis is getting worse and then some.
Saudi Arabia has started bombing rebel positions inside Yemen, and said the Sunni Kingdom will do "anything necessary" to deter the Iran-backed Shiite rebels who are taking over its neighbor.
Meanwhile, the rebel Houthi fighters looted American intelligence files, which contained details of US operations in the country, Brian Bennett and Zaid Al-Alayaa of the LA Times report.
Some of the files were reportedly "handed directly to Iranian advisors by Yemeni officials who have sided with the Houthi militia," which has successfully dismantled Yemen's government since marching into Sana, the capital, in September.
As Yemen's conflict becomes increasingly sectarian and multi-sided — with military and pre-Arab Spring regime elements jostling for control against Iranian-assisted Shiite Houthis who are in turn fighting Al Qaeda and perhaps also ISIS-linked Sunni extremists — Saudi Arabia responded to the chaos by increasing its military presence along its southern border.
And the US is losing influence very fast: Yemeni President Abd Rabbah Mansur Hadi, a cooperative US counter-terror partner who had resigned, un-resigned, and then retreated to the coastal city of Aden over the past two months, fled the country by boat on March 25th. Yemen's internationally-recognized head of state left just 5 days after simultaneous suicide bombings killed 130 people in Sana. ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombings, and just a week later, Houthi rebels took over the airport in the key coastal city of Aden.
Saudi Arabia believed it could keep Yemen harmless (to Riyadh, at least) by subsidizing its government, maintaining a heavy intelligence presence, and constructing a separation barrier along its border. With Yemen breaking down along geographic and sectarian lines and morphing into an Iranian strategic frontier, that calculus might not hold much longer.
There's also no obvious sense of what comes next.
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‘When Obama reads the news tomorrow he can say he knew about this and it was nothing new. Yemen, the model of success! ‘
Well, when there are two sides to a story a definition of success is solely depends on which side you are playing for.
I wonder if Obama will bomb the Saudis?
Bush haven’t promised to stand with Muslims and still spared Saudis after 9/11.
How would you expect Hussein to hit a hornets’ nest today?
Yet, we are bombing Tikrit, Iraq in support of the Iran backed group fighting ISIS>
It’s an Obama World IE a real Cluster FU@$!
Meanwhile, in Ukraine....
Rebels have given Kiev until 6PM local to remove heavy weapons (tanks, hvy arty) found by drone cameras inside the ceasefire line, or they will “Remove them for Kiev”.
Things are getting hot, fast.
Campaigning season has begun in full earnest, it seems.
The Religion of Perpetual Outrage never, ever rests. If they aren’t terrorizing infidels they’re slaughtering each other. The sooner they utterly destroy themselves the better.
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
Re Ukraine, as was stated on the HH show, Putin is a student of Lenin, who said that one should probe with a steel bayonet, if met with steel, probe until you find mush, and then attack.
Obama is the mush.
Its all cracking up over there.
Several other countries are on the edge.
This is why we are most likely leaving troops in Afghanistan for a long time or this kind of garbage might happen there too.
Re: Putin, he’s history. There was a coup behind closed doors, maybe for appearances he will be still around.
Every U.S. Embassy needs to have one special file cabinet...filled with files containing absolute proof...that every A-hole we don’t like is secretly working for the CIA.
Let ‘em read that.
Every U.S. Embassy needs to have one special file cabinet...filled with files containing absolute proof...that every A-hole we don’t like is secretly working for the CIA.Devious.
Excellent.
Iran and Iraq were behind 9/11. The Saudis that provided muscle in the hijackings were from the opponents of the king and most likely were chosen to deflect attention from Iran. The leader of the attack while an Egyptian, was a member of the Syrian Muslim brotherhood and had ties to Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, who as we now know was based in Iraq at the time and shortly after when our attention turned to Iraq was found to have committed suicide by “shooting himself in the head multiple times.” Another member of Atta’s cell in Hamburg also linked to Abu Nidal was the son of a Soviet-era East German stasi informant.
The world is on fire, and Bath House is filling out his brackets and cruising the links. What will history say?
Then why not bomb Iran instead of Afghanistan? Osama in Afghanistan and mullah Omar (still missing)?
I mean going after a couple of people and even the Taliban (with whom the U.S. had ‘diplomatic’ relations before 9/11), when you can dismantle an entire regime in Iran (if they were truly the culprits behind 9/11), and has had no ‘official’ relations with the U.S. gov’t, and publicly has been hostile, was silly?
There are also many Saudi ‘royals’ (inside the House of Saud, ie “a 1000 princes”) who vehemently opposed the Saudi King, his connection to the U.S., and still do, as Osama did. Why not think one of them had a direct hand in financing, organizing or being involved in 9/11?
you sir/madam, with ideas like that should be involved in the space programme, absolutely fantastic...
LOL...
So, with the ransacking of intelligence files, I wonder if any of Billary’s hidden mails will finally be revealed?
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