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George1 wrote:i am confused.. How Sudanese troops entered Yemen without any international reaction?? I know that Gulf states intervention is also to be condemned but i find it strange for a president like Bashir who indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to send troops abroad
i also know that till now Sudan had very strong relations with Iran, which now will be totally harmed
iraqidabab wrote:Important part I understood, "All aircraft there.". Couldn't understand it fully, not my dialect.
During Yemen's 1994 civil war, the Wahhabis, an Islamic group adhering to a strict version of Sunni Islam found in neighboring Saudi Arabia, helped the government in its fight against the secessionist south. Zaidis complain the government has subsequently allowed the wahhabis too strong a voice in Yemen. Saudi Arabia, for its part, worries that strife instigated by the Zaidi sect so close to Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia could stir up groups in Saudi itself wrote:
George1 wrote:Forces Loyal to Yemeni Ex-President Sink Saudi Coalition’s Ship in Red Sea
Forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh have sunk a ship that belongs to the Saudi-led coalition.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Some fractions of the Yemeni army loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh have attacked and sunk one of the ships of the Saudi-led coalition near a port city of Mocha located on the Red Sea coast, a military source told Sputnik Sunday.
“Parts of the Yemeni Army launched a missile in the direction of one of the warships, from which the port of Mocha was shelled. The target was precisely struck and sunk,” the source said.
Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government and Shiite Houthi rebels, the country’s main opposition faction.
Since March, a Saudi-led coalition began carrying out airstrikes against Houthi positions at Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi's request.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151025/1029092805/yemen-ship-saudis-rebels.html#ixzz3pbX64Crv
iraqidabab wrote:A video of the possible ship attack'. I think they hit the little ship behind the big one.
But the launching of the missile which seems to be anti-ship missile is at night, don't know what to make of it. Strange content.
They sank a few patrol boats people say. They don't have the missiles to sink big ships.
max steel wrote:800 Colombian Soldiers to Join Saudi-Led Forces in Yemen
KSA funding foreign nation armies for themselves now ? Can't beat a bunch of enthusiastic rebels?
Militarov wrote:To me it looks rather like M60A3.
Bidoul wrote:If I were mean I'd say that's always has been a Muslim tactic... to hire/enslave Christians infantry because they themselves have always sucked at it.
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