Posted on 08/11/2019 11:21:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Yemeni separatists have taken control of the strategic city of Aden after days of fighting with forces backing the internationally recognized government.
A spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council (STC) told CNN the group took over the city including its presidential palace, port and airport. Aden has been the seat of the Saudi-backed government since Houthi fighters took over Sanaa in 2014.
"We are not inside the presidential compound, which is on an island, but we have secured its entrances and exits," Nizar Haytham, the STC spokesperson, told CNN.
CNN wasn't able to verify the claims. However, the interior minister of the country's internationally recognized government conceded a defeat in what he called a "successful coup."
"The successful coup destroyed what's left of this country's sovereignty," Ahmed Al-Maysary said in a video circulated on social media.
He said he recorded the video in Aden right before fleeing to Riyadh. He was the only minister on the ground making statements to the public about the fighting.
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Ok ,now what , Loot it ?
is this a good or bad thing
That and rape, and murder. It’s the Muslim way.
Gotta be bad for anybody living there.
as always
Think oil and trade.
I suspect these guys get funding from a Soros org in the region.
Think Arab Spring.
Not saying Yemen is perfect. It’s not. It’s still stable and not causing The West major headaches.
The world doesn’t need a terrorist group running a nation controlling a choke point to the entrance to the Red Sea.
thanx
Yemen has been shredded by the Iranian mullahcracy's proxies, Houthi terrorists. It's in a civil war. Of course it's not stable.
So Carter, the gift that keeps on giving...
So Carter, the gift that keeps on giving...
We’re still dealing with that prick’s dumb ass presidential and think tank ideas as much as forty years after the fact.
So, here we have Saudi Arabia, with the 3rd largest defense budget on the planet, unable to defend a city on a peninsula with (using the airport which basically bisects the peninsula as the next-to-last line of defense) a ~2 mile “line” to hold. Holy c***!
What’s partially amusing is that the STC are supposedly the UAE backed allies of the Saudi backed government they just overthrew.
Now, the Iranian backed Houthies can mop up.
“is this a good or bad thing”
It is not the worst, which would be Iranian-backed Houthis taking over.
This was an internal split on the Sunni side - one group (STC) backed by the UAE splitting with the Hadi Government backed by the Saudis. Might just be some internal jockeying got out of hand - emotional people.
I want that bastard to live all the way through President Trump's second term and to see the conservative elected after him.
If they hold both Aden and Sana’a, they have both seats of power in the nation.
Yeah, as long as we’re still unraveling at that point.
South Yemen prior to unification in 1990 was a secular state with Aden as the capital
The Houthi rebels want to reset up North Yemen, a Zayidi Muslim state. Zayidis are Shia but they are far closer to Sunnis than the Twelver Shia in Iran. Kinda like 1890s Anglo Catholics between Catholics and Baptists analogically
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