"Following a military operation in Yemen targeting suspected al Qa'eda militants, a local official said on Sunday that 49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed in air strikes which he said were carried out "indiscriminately," Agence France Presse reported."
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If you have the stomach to withstand looking at more photos of victims of an earlier air strike,12-8-2009 ( careful, really gruesome) some are posted here (source for the above photos):
any claims about Qa3eda militants hiding between Houthis can't be but bullshit.
ReplyDeletehow come $audi arabia fight the Zaydi (Shia) Houthis in behalf of Wahabism (extreme Salafi Sunni) which is the same Qa'eda faith ?
Qa'eda (and its local chapters) are involved in nearly all attacks against Shias in Pakistan from more than a decade and Iraq since the invasion!
the more ironic is that the Wahabi entity itself (SA) is the biggest sponsor for Qa'eda, and in the same time endangered by its influence within the kingdom, how come it dare to engage in a fight against them ?
In Washington al-Qa'ida means Muslims we don't like. In Pentagon-speak it means any Muslims we have killed, including women and children.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, we are being duped into supporting a corrupt government and helping it do its dirty work. Yemen has supported, nurtured, and enabled Al-Qaeda when it found it usefful to do so. I am reminded of this article from the summer:
ReplyDeletePerhaps the fundamental question for the donor community, especially the U.S., is how to best secure their citizens from the growing terror threat from Yemen. A more active and visible presence of al Qaeda heightens concerns about Yemen’s potential implosion. Since 2007, nearly a dozen so-called al Qaeda attacks targeted tourists and foreign interests, including the U.S. Embassy. However, the ecosystems that nurture al Qaeda in Yemen and regionally are supported by Yemeni state resources, as are a variety of criminal enterprises. The idea that President Saleh put the fight against al Qaeda on the back burner because of civil unrest is misguided. Al Qaeda thrived in Yemen because it was nurtured, not neglected.
Yemen’s counter-terror policies are farcical and include releasing convicted terrorists, pretending terrorists are in jail or dead, and other elaborate ploys to deceive Western nations. Saleh deployed jihadists during Yemen’s 1994 civil war and in the recent Sa’ada War and appears ready to unleash these terrorists against protesters in the south. Local media reported numerous al Qaeda training camps within or facilitated by the Yemeni military. Scores of terrorists receive military salaries. Fears that without Saleh the resulting vacuum will allow terrorist entrenchment ignores the reality on the ground.
http://janenovak.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/aid-wont-fix-crisis-in-yemen/#more-240
The leader of the Abyan Aden Islamic Army is calling for the establishment of an Islamic state in southern Yemen. Scary, yes? However as with all things Yemen, its important to look beyond the initial shock value as the Yemeni President is the King of Spin™. The Yemeni government has been trying to pin the terrorist label on the southern independence movement, so Nabi and his statement deserve a little scrutiny.
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<span>The Houthis, massacred here, as Khaled avove mentioned, are Shi'a. Do you think they have a link to Al-Qaida, mainly Wahhabi/Salafi? </span>
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"Yemen is also facing other security threats, including an armed rebellion in the north, where fighting has flared up in recent months and Saudi forces have become involved. A secessionist movement in the south has grown worse in the past year, and some of its leaders are based in Abyan, not far from where the airstrikes took place Thursday. There is no indication that the various insurgents targeting Yemen's government are cooperating, but the concurrent crises have weakened the state's ability to react."</span>
There is so many conflicting analyses of this issue, I would not even venture a guess on that one! The Houthis claim they do not have any links with Al-Qaeda.
ReplyDeletePlease explain your post and photos. The article from the National describes an attack on suspected Al-Qaeda camps, but the photos are of an attack on a different date but on the Houthis in the North?
<span><span>There are so many conflicting analyses of this issue, I would not even venture a guess on that one! The Houthis claim they do not have any links with Al-Qaeda.
ReplyDeletePlease explain your post and photos. The article from the National describes an attack on suspected Al-Qaeda camps, but the photos are of an attack on a different date, but on the Houthis in the North?</span></span>
<span><span>The photos show the Houthi victims of an 2009-8-12 air strike on Haidan( Sa'ada district) are in reference to this excerpt (posted in the comment above) from the article</span></span>
ReplyDelete<span><span>"Yemen is also facing other security threats, including an armed rebellion in the north, where fighting has flared up in recent months and Saudi forces have become involved. A secessionist movement in the south has grown worse in the past year, and some of its leaders are based in Abyan, not far from where the airstrikes took place Thursday. There is no indication that the various insurgents targeting Yemen's government are cooperating, but the concurrent crises have weakened the state's ability to react."</span></span>
<span><span><span>The photos show the Houthi victims of an 2009-8-12 air strike on Haidan( Sa'ada district) are in reference to this excerpt (posted in the comment above) from the article</span></span> </span>
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<span><span>"Yemen is also facing other security threats, including an armed rebellion in the north, where fighting has flared up in recent months and Saudi forces have become involved. A secessionist movement in the south has grown worse in the past year, and some of its leaders are based in Abyan, not far from where the airstrikes took place Thursday. There is no indication that the various insurgents targeting Yemen's government are cooperating, but the concurrent crises have weakened the state's ability to react."</span></span></span>
<span><span><span><span>The photos show the Houthi victims of an 2009-8-12 air strike on Haidan( Sa'ada district) and are in reference to th this excerpt (posted in the comment above) from the article</span></span>: </span>
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<span><span>"Yemen is also facing other security threats, including an armed rebellion in the north, where fighting has flared up in recent months and Saudi forces have become involved. A secessionist movement in the south has grown worse in the past year, and some of its leaders are based in Abyan, not far from where the airstrikes took place Thursday. There is no indication that the various insurgents targeting Yemen's government are cooperating, but the concurrent crises have weakened the state's ability to react."</span></span></span></span>
Not the victims of the latest attack which caused the death of 49 civilians mentioned in the article, true, but the circumstances of the attacks are the same in an ongoing series of attacks.
The confusion is due to the fact that the photos and the National article are not one but two related subject bundled in one post.
ReplyDelete<span><span>The confusion is due to the fact that the photos and the National article are not one illustrating the other but two related subjects bundled in one post. In any case a clarification is added to the post.
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Thanks.
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