Posted on 09/22/2014 4:42:44 PM PDT by mojito
In a stunning sweep of the Yemeni capital, the country's Shiite rebels seized homes, offices and military bases of their Sunni foes on Monday, forcing many into hiding and triggering an exodus of civilians from the city after a week of fighting that left 340 people dead.
It was the latest development in the Hawthi blitz, which has plunged volatile Yemen into more turmoil, pitting the Shiite rebels against the Sunni-dominated military and their Islamist tribal allies.
The heavily armed Hawthi fighters on Monday seized tanks and armored vehicles from military headquarters they had overrun, and raided the home of long-time archenemy Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the commander of the army's elite 1st Armored Division and a veteran of a series of wars against the Shiite rebels, as well as residences of top Sunni Islamist militiamen or the fundamentalist Islah party.
Al-Ahmar himself fled and was forced into hiding, along with his followers, as the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, succeeded in mediating a deal on Sunday between the Shiite Hawthis and their rivals and the fighting died down. But the Hawthis made no concessions.
After flooding into Sanaa, the Hawthis also took strategic installations and key state buildings, though they claimed later to have handed them back to the army's military police.
Thousands of Hawthi fighters — including many youths — were the only visible force Monday on the streets of the capital. They drove army tanks and armored vehicles they looted from al-Ahmar's forces out of the city, heading north, likely to the Hawthis' heartland in the city of Saada.
The group's spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam said the rebels will hunt down those who committed violence against them, indicating the possibility of wider revenge attacks against opponents.
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The Arab Spring was anything but good as far as I can tell.
Given a choice between a world without sunnis and a world without shiites, I’ll take the world without shiites.
There are far fewer of them and the radical “twelver” sect that runs the show can be eliminated by backing the more pro western youth of Iran.
At least they know how to fight. Bring them up north, and have a cage match. Muslim Thunderdome.
I'm not particularly worried about Yemeni Shi'ite rebels backing ISIS. Are you?
1) What makes you think you have an option?
2) Why on earth why? Sunnis have backed far more attacks against American targets -- orders of magnitude more.
There are far fewer of them and the radical “twelver” sect that runs the show can be eliminated by backing the more pro western youth of Iran.
Ok, am totally confused. You think the pro western Shi'ite youth in Iran are going to cooperate with your effort to exterminate the Shi'ite people?
Wow you’re amazing at the mind reading. Wrong but amazing just the same.
sheesh.
I thought there was a ceasefire today? Obviously not...
Never enter into a ceasefire with the Muslims.
Iran has gained a new puppet state. Perhaps they think Assad’s days are numbered now that ISIS is killing battalions of soldiers, 300 at a time.
Why so complacent?
Don’t you realize that this will only engender a Sunni counterstrike, leading to an unending cycle of Sunni vs. Shia killings?
Hey, wait a minute...
...got any more of that popcorn?
I’d like to see the Shiites turn Saudi Arabia on its head.
Agree. Let’s see where this goes. What connection do these Shiites have to Iran?
In a stunning sweep of the Yemeni capital, the country's Shiite rebels... after a week of fighting that left 340 people dead... The heavily armed Hawthi fighters on Monday seized tanks and armored vehicles from military headquarters they had overrun, and raided the home of long-time archenemy Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the commander of the army's elite 1st Armored Division and a veteran of a series of wars against the Shiite rebels... the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, succeeded in mediating a deal on Sunday between the Shiite Hawthis and their rivals and the fighting died down. But the Hawthis made no concessions... The group's spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam said the rebels will hunt down those who committed violence against them, indicating the possibility of wider revenge attacks against opponents.
I wholeheartedly agree. But I’d rather live in a world without Islam.
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