Posted on 04/10/2015 5:24:40 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
ADEN, Yemen — Rooftop snipers have emptied the streets of this dusty seaside city and swelled its hospitals and morgues.
Weeks of fighting between armed groups have left nearly 200 people dead and the city starved of water, fuel and electricity. Hospitals struggle to obtain anesthetic and dressings. Barefoot, nervous teenagers with matted hair and guns mind checkpoints on the treacherous roads. Gun battles sweep across the city while residents lie low and worry that Aden’s suffering will only increase.
“The war of hunger has not started — yet,” said Ali Bamatraf, a grocer with dwindling stocks, standing among empty food boxes that would not soon be replaced.
As war engulfs Yemen, no place in the beleaguered country has suffered as severely as Aden, a southern port city captive to ferocious street fighting for the better part of a harrowing month. Foreign navies patrol its waters and warplanes circle above, blockading a city that is steadily crumbling under reckless fire from tanks and heavy guns.
“Damaged. Ruined,” said Faris al-Shuaibi, a professor of English literature at Aden University, searching for the words to describe the beaten-up neighborhood around him. “Everything is destroyed.”
The clashes began in mid-March as a feud between forces allied with two members of Yemen’s political elite: southern fighters loyal to President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who had retreated to Aden after being driven from the capital, against Houthi militiamen and security forces allied with Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former leader.
Weeks later, the war has spread and become far more complicated. Saudi Arabia unleashed an air offensive last month that has failed to stop the Houthi advance. Saudi officials are threatening a ground invasion, seeing the hand of Iran, their regional nemesis, behind the Houthis, whose leaders follow an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
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So true. They are Pigs and they will be slaughtered like pigs from their own godless people. Do you like butter on your pop corn like I do?
If only Israel were driven into the sea, this violence wouldn’t be necessary...LOL.
...”Do you like butter on your pop corn like I do?”...
I love butter on popcorn...in fact I butter buttered popcorn!
Crumblin, Bumblin, Stumblin...I’ll wait for the highlight reels!
Problem would have been solved had bin Saud taken another 10 wives!
I used to live in Yemen. I don't think that claim is possible. Saudi's look down on Yemenis as the lowest of the low. It was only a several decades ago they were still taking Yemenis as slaves. I would want to see some support for that claim.
I remember when Saudia flights would arrive in Jeddah, with a load of wee Yemeni laborers. The captains wouldn’t let them come aboard with this daggers they wear at their waists. After they deplaned there was the mother of all fusterclucks as they tried to pick their weapon out of the pile. Those guys were very strong for being such puny dudes. I saw one of them hump a fridge downstairs from a store out into the Saudi’s truck. Saudis don’t DO manual labor.
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