Give.Obama.Power. party: "Lord Baraq, our King is terrific.
Long live ObamaCARE, Quartering of incurable diseases,
Cuba, Iran, IRS attacks on conservatives .... and my family's EXEMPTIONS."
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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Give.Obama.Power. party: "Lord Baraq, our King is terrific.
Long live ObamaCARE, Quartering of incurable diseases,
Cuba, Iran, IRS attacks on conservatives .... and my family's EXEMPTIONS."
Ain’t it grand? The Religion of Peace being “peaceful.”
I am noticing what coward the Saudis are. None of them want to die for the “house of Said” so they bomb and run off. The Iranians will eat them for breakfast. I shall make pop corn and enjoy.
I don’t even know what side to root for...
The ISIS/Saudi Arabia/Sunni/Government side
or
The Al-Queda/Iran/Shia/Rebel side
Oh well - until I can figure it out.
KEEP FIGHTING BOYS.
Obama’s foreign policy success!
Sadly you might be right. It is largely cultural there though, the Yemeni’s have never had their act together and really are two nations. Contrast the mess there with what is happening in Oman; peace & prosperity for the most part.
“Coming to America if Baraq has his way.”
No doubt you are correct.
Cant the NYT move to Aden?
I don’t get it.
Obama said that Yemen was an example of success, when discussing his foreign policy.
0bama = anarchy
Barackum Obama told Yemen, “I got your back.”
The clown recently assured Israel that he would stand with them.
Where is Obama playing golf this weekend?
Obama Legacy Building
Really, it is more splintered than that. This area is very tribal and has loyalties to smaller groups.
It is an example of his successes. Just about as good as it gets.
They’re up against a fence since I understand 50% of the Saudi Army are from Yemen....
Saudi leaders retains their power thru Islam and the control it has over people. That’s how The House of Saud got power centuries ago, by ‘uniting the tribes using religion’ to bring them under one religious roof and control of........ Their Military is for enforcing that. Give them an actual war to fight and they’re military is weak and confused.
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