Posted on 11/14/2009 3:25:16 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Saudi Arabian troops and aircraft are now enforcing a ten kilometer deep "kill zone" on the Yemen side of their Yemen border. This is the first combat operation for Saudi forces since 1991 (during the liberation of Kuwait.) This is in support of a four month war between rebel Shia tribesmen and the Yemeni armed forces. Since November 5th, Saudi fighter bombers have flown over a hundred sorties against rebel targets just across the border. Hundreds of smart bombs and missiles have been used. Saudi artillery has fired hundreds of shells at the rebels, and Saudi helicopters and infantry now patrol portions of the 1458 kilometer Yemen border where the rebels are active. Saudi warships are patrolling the Yemeni Red Sea coast, just south of the Saudi border, to prevent any more Iranian ships from trying to deliver weapons. On October 26th, Yemeni patrol boats in the Red Sea, seized an Iranian ship, carrying weapons, apparently meant for the Yemeni rebels. In October, rebel tribesmen began to gather, with their families, near the border, as the Yemeni forces overran the towns and villages the rebels called home. The Shia tribes have clans on both sides of the border, but are now being stopped from freely crossing. The Saudis have always had good, or at lease peaceful, relations with the Shia tribes on their side of the border. Both Yemen and Saudi Arabia see Iran as a major supporter of the rebels. Saudi al Qaeda members have fled to Yemen, where they have been caught planning new attacks, and sending people back into Saudi Arabia to carry out these attacks.
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anyone hear the peaceniks complaining about this?
As Obama tells us it is OK for Iran to have nukes.
Why complain about Muslims fighting Muslims? They like to fight — what’s better than they should fight each other instead of us?
So does THAT have anything to do with THIS?
“Yemen, U.S. Sign Security Pact”
“Yemen and the U.S. have signed a security and military cooperation agreement.”
“The agreement was signed during U.S. military officials’ visit to San’a in recent days.”
Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, November 12, 2009
Ron Paul has claimed that Iran is not a problem. This says otherwise. Who do you believe?
“This is in support of a four month war between rebel Shia tribesmen
and the Yemeni armed forces.”
Hmmm...is “Shia” what we’d usually call “Shi’ite”?
If so, that’s interesting, as I thought the Saudi area (peninsula)
basically had only Sunni Muslims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BbpGKLXqk
Probably this and that are both a consequence of Shi’ite Iran going after its Sunni neighbors.
People have to know some of the history of this little border spat. Until 1990 half of Yemen was communist. Even though it claims to be a republic the President of Yemen has been in power for over 30 years (He was President of North Yemen from 1978-1990). Much of Al-Qaida moved into Yemen after Saudi Arabia started to crack down. You have several tribes competing for independence from the central government in the north, south and east. Iran has been supporting several of the tribes since they are Shi’ite and the Saudis are Sunni. Since Yemen has moved to crack down on the rebels many of them, including Al-Qaida, have headed across the Saudi border.
This place has communists, dictators, Shi’ites, Sunnis, Iranian weapons, Al-Qaida, Saudi royalty, insurrection and to top it off U.S. support of the government no one likes. To a conservative it sounds like a powder keg. To Obama it must look like Disneyland.
This is exactly what the US ought to be doing to Waziristan. Give them 7 days to evacuate, then send in the bombers and clean that hellhole out.
At some point you nuke the site from orbit...
We should be doing the same on the Mexican Border.
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