Schwerpunkte / Key aspects
Klassifizierung / Classification
Zuerst: Verschleppte der Huthis / At first: Houthi detainees
cp1 Am wichtigsten: Blockade / Most important: Blockade
cp1a: Am wichtigsten: Seuchen / Most important: Epidemics
cp1b Am wichtigsten: Nach Salehs Tod / Most important: After Saleh’s death
cp1c Am wichtigsten: Vormarsch der Saudi-Koalition auf Hodeida / Most import: Saudi coalition advance at Hodeida
cp2 Allgemein / General
cp2a Allgemein: Saudische Blockade / General: Saudi blockade
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
cp7 UNO und Friedensverhansdlungen / UN and peace talks
cp7a Saudi-Arabien und Iran / Saudi Arabia and Iran
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
cp9 USA
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms Trade
cp13b Wirtschaft / Economy
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
cp15 Propaganda
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
cp18 Sonstiges / Other
Klassifizierung / Classification
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(Kein Stern / No star)
A = Aktuell / Current news
B = Hintergrund / Background
C = Chronik / Chronicle
D = Details
E = Wirtschaft / Economy
H = Humanitäre Fragen / Humanitarian questions
K = Krieg / War
P = Politik / Politics
PH = Pro-Houthi
PS = Pro-Saudi
T = Terrorismus / Terrorism
Zuerst: Verschleppte der Huthis / At first: Houthi detainees
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Houthis Militia Conduct Gross Violates against PGC’s Leaders and members
According to reports that SAM received, many military and civil leaders, and Saleh relatives are facing unknown fate, and their relatives are highly concerned that they are killed, as they could not reach them.
Houthis conducted wide abduction campaign against PGC members, while blocking internet and telecommunication in the targeted areas, and violently disbursed women’s protest that demanded release of Saleh’s body.
Tawfiq Al-Humeidi, monitoring officer at SAM said in statement that PGC members in Sana’a are exposed to crimes mount to crimes against humanity, including summary execution, abduction and disappearing of injured, and holding of deceased bodies, of civilians including journalists.
The Houthis imposed a state of terror and fear in all areas of their control, where SAM has documented several instances of break-ins at PGC houses in Sana’a, Al-Mahwet, Amran Hajjah, and Sanhan, as well at neighbouring houses to Saleh’s, where unarmed civilians were killed. Many of PGC leaders’ fate is unknown by the time of this statement.
Also reports indicated that trucks loaded of civilians were seen entering the central prison in Sana’a and other prisons outside the city. Also, witnesses reported to SAM that Houthis has abducted many women and led them to unknown place.
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In Yemen: Houthi militias are holding hundreds of Republican Guard officers at Camp Dabwa south of Sanaa
https://yemen.liveuamap.com/en/2017/11-december-in-yemen-houthi-militias-are-holding-hundreds
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Sputnik Correspondent in Yemen Missing For Nearly a Week – Spouse
Earlier this month, the Houthi rebels seized a TV station in Sanaa, holding 41 journalists hostage, including a Sputnik correspondent.
A Sputnik freelance correspondent in Yemen, who had been captured by Houthi rebels, has not been heard from since Tuesday, his wife told Sputnik Monday.
The correspondent, who has been working for Sputnik in Yemen, went missing on December 3 after the Houthis had established control over Yemen Today's broadcasting station in Sanaa that belonged to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201712111059894268-sputnik-correspondent-yemen-missing/
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#Yemen Abductees Mothers Association: 70 abductees were tortured to death inside Houthi prisons since Houthi militants seized power in late 2014.
https://twitter.com/FuadRajeh/status/939904308287623168
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Here’s our statement on the attacks against Yemeni women that took place on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 by the Houthi militia in Sana’a, #Yemen: (text in image)
https://twitter.com/GhadaYemen/status/939664999118761984
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Houthis break into Saleh's sister in law house, kidnap her son in Sana'a
The Houthis gunmen stormed the director of Dar al-Rahma center for Orphans in the capital Sana'a Ruqaih al-Hajri, the former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's sister in law, a source said on Saturday.
The source told AlMasdaronline that about 10 military vehicles carrying Houthi gunmen stormed the house by force and kidnapped two sons, but released one later, and still keeping the other.
The reason for that was because of Ruqia al-Hajri relationship with the former president, the source said, "They were justified by the Afash family."
"They did not knock on the doors; they just broke into with their vehicles and searched in the whole house, then took the two young boys as one was released but the other still, also they looted everything they found precious, money, gold, watches, antiques and telephones." the source added.
Ruqaih al Hajri is an activist in the social field and known as the Mother of Orphans, as she runs Dar al-Rahma center for orphans and has the largest nursing home in Sana'a, according to the source.
http://almasdaronline.com/article/95996
and for Al Hajri look here: http://dalilalkhier.com/index.php/roadalkhierwork/280-rogaiah7ajri (translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdalilalkhier.com%2Findex.php%2Froadalkhierwork%2F280-rogaiah7ajri&edit-text=)
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Hussein Akhdar, 50, died from torture inside a Houthi prison. He was abducted & subjected to all kinds of torture including that he'd been burned, Abductees Mothers Association said Saturday, the latest in a series of torture murders by Houthi militants
https://twitter.com/fuadrajeh/status/939766678195404800
and
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A kidnapped dies in Houthis prison due to torture and burning - Statement
The Association of abductees' Mothers said on Sunday that it had received a report from the family of the 50 years old kidnapper Hussein Abdullah Akhdar, who is originally from Hodeidah province western Yemen, that he was killed under torture in the Political Security prison in Sana'a.
The Association's statement quoted the kidnapper family saying that Akhdar was kidnaped from Sana'a on the 11th of last October, and was brutally tortured as he had beaten and burned with fire in different parts of his body, where the Houthis transferred him on the 28th of last November to several hospitals for treatment, but without any benefit as he died 12 days later.
http://almasdaronline.com/article/96005
Mehr hierzu in cp5 / More on this subject in cp5.
cp1 Am wichtigsten / Most important
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Here’s how you can send help to people in Yemen trapped in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
But how do we help them?
The World surveyed journalists, humanitarians and Yemeni citizens to come up with this short list of aid groups — some small and local, others huge and global — with proven track records of helping families in Yemen. Each in its own way is helping Yemenis survive what the United Nations calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
Humanitarians who live and work in Yemen
Organizations whose mission is to help Yemenis
Global NGOs that include service in Yemen
Advocacy groups that work to end the war in Yemen
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How the Saudis Escalated Yemen Struggle Beyond All Control
The Yemen Civil War could have been a local power struggle, if not for the Saudis' heavy hand.
Hadi presided over a constitution-drafting exercise. One feature enraged the Houthis: a plan to redraw the regions of Yemen, making Sana'a and Aden self-governing and merging Sada'a into a new highland governorate, “a formation that would deny the Houthis control over the Red Sea coast to west, cut them off from natural resources to the east, and fence them up against the Saudi border to the north,” as Ginny Hill wrote.
The Saudi blockade and bombing have scaled up a local power struggle to genocidal proportions. They believe Yemen is their backyard and that it is their right to impose a solution. Military victory has proven elusive for them, but their unlimited resources and the wide license given them by the Western media to freely commit crimes has allowed them to keep raising the stakes and nudging Yemen towards catastrophe.
The Houthis have held on, however, withstanding the bombardment and siege, even as the humanitarian catastrophe continues to expand.
Saleh, a wily operator who had survived in power since 1978, could not survive this last alliance with the Saudis: he was killed within 24 hours of making it.
The UN, Oman, Iran, and others have put forward peace plans to end the Yemeni civil war. Most feature a national unity government that includes the Houthis, who will convert their movement into a political party, with elections to follow. Saleh switching sides and the Houthi killing him makes a peace deal much less likely in the short term. But the biggest obstacle to peace remains Saudi Arabia, which has also been the biggest escalating force of the war – by Justin Podur
https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/how-saudis-escalated-yemen-struggle-beyond-all-control
My comment: Also containing interesting information on the background of Yemen politics.
(** B H)
Privatisation by war: Poor pay more for Yemen's cash-starved services
Hospitals, utilities, schools and other public sector operations can no longer afford to provide Yemenis with free or cheap services
After more than two years of war, Yemen's public sector is buckling.
With budgets halted and employee salaries paid irregularly, hospitals, water and electricity providers, schools and other public-sector operations can no longer afford to provide Yemenis with free or cheap services as they did in the past.
So they are imposing fees to provide even the most basic services, forcing many Yemenis such as Zazaie, more than 70 percent of whom are already receiving humanitarian support, to spend more money on basic services - or pick and choose the bare essentials.
Government officials and public sector managers acknowledge the gravity of the situation, but find themselves stuck in an impossible situation, further aggravated by a Saudi-led blockade – by Nasser al-Sakkaf
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-fees-privatisation-hospital-electricity-water-497552378
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Film: Covering Yemen: Saleh, Saudi and the media - The Listening Post (Lead)
A look at the complex layers in reporting on the Yemen conflict from a regional and international perspective.
Last week, Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed, but media coverage has not been straightforward.
Foreign audiences may be forgiven their confusion of the causes of this conflict, given that much of the coverage of the war's main architect, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, has been enthusiastic, even effusive.
There's little reporting of the behind-the-scenes roles Britain and the United States are playing in this conflict - underwriting the Saudis with arms, expertise and diplomatic cover.
There are a lot of angles to this story - including the alleged role Iran is playing in Yemen, an angle long on allegations and short on proof.
"The problem with the press, the Saudi-backed press or Saudi-funded press, like all Arab-funded press establishments, is that it is simply a propaganda tool and therefore we shouldn't take it as a reflection of any independent thinking, but as a reflection of the political views of the power elite at that moment, because that view can change the next day, just as Ali Abdullah's position changed overnight," says journalism professor Rami Khouri at the American University of Beirut.
The Saudis have also pushed their case in the international news media - through a public relations offensive aimed at diplomats and news organisations.
"The Anglo-American media has been criminally complicit in not reporting accurately about what actually is going on in Yemen in terms of the deeper context of who is responsible or who is engaged in the war in Yemen. It's presented as a great tragedy," says Khouri.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/12/covering-yemen-saleh-saudi-media-171209082634258.html = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV8tK1BmLcM
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Britain’s involvement in Yemen is making the situation worse
It's the world's worst humanitarian disaster—and the involvement of a dozen other nations is not helpful
This is a war of unstable alliances on the ground, and also one that involves an extraordinary range of nations and nationalities.
Then there is Britain. Along with the United States, we are tacitly giving backing to the campaign, including logistical support in Saudi’s command and control centre, albeit separated by a glass wall to provide deniability that we are “in the room.”
Britain can whimper about the consequences of this bloody dispute, but it cannot credibly dispute it has thrown its lot in with the Saudi side.
The rest of the world tries to make sense of Yemen as a crucible for far wider religious tensions and regional rivalries.
But this civil war is, at its heart, a home-grown struggle between two rival Yemeni elites, tussling over money, resources and control of a fracturing state. Many of the roots of this nation’s agonies lie in its own distinctive soil.
Yemen’s current war may have only begun in 2014, but its origins go much further back. As so often in the Middle East, Empire cast a long shadow.
Yemen’s war has shattered the social fabric of its 27m-strong population and devastated its infrastructure. It is a land seared by division.
Different parts of the elite who established themselves under more than three decades of Saleh’s rule are today placed by the conflict, in theory at least, on opposing sides. Yet the economics of the war unites their interests—the well-connected on both sides are financial beneficiaries of the protraction of conflict, and the wages of corruption that come with it.
But the conflict has been economically ruinous for ordinary Yemenis.
Saudi Arabia is pouring funds into this war because of its strategic interests. First, there is the obsession with Iran—Riyadh simply cannot countenance that country getting a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula. Then there is also the issue of saving face. This conflict is now inextricably linked with the ascendant Crown Prince.
The gulf between Yemen’s people and its politicians, the haves and the have nots, has never been wider.
The parties to the conflict are myriad, but all are united by a lack of concern for civilian life.
But how to draw a line? Focusing on regional political dynamics, or even the Yemeni elite, will not on its own achieve a durable end to the conflict. The disparate grievances of all the factions and tribes involved must be attended to—grievances that have built up over decades of corruption, oppression and marginalisation.
To achieve a comprehensive end to the war, the UN-led efforts need to be broadened to include all the issues that lead to conflict.
The legacy of the fighting will be felt for generations to come – by Iona Craig
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/britains-involvement-in-yemen-is-making-the-situation-worse
My comment: A very good and long background article.
(** A K P)
Listen to this harrowing account of Yemen’s post-assassination lockdown
You must listen to this: A first-person account by a young woman living under lockdown conditions in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.
Yemenis were in shock on Monday, Dec. 4, when they learned that their longtime leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been assassinated. Saleh had been a moderating influence on the Houthi rebels who control Sanaa. Now that Saleh's gone, Yemenis fear for their personal safety, their liberty and their country's future.
This woman — we don't use her name here — tells what it's like to live under lockdown conditions with little certainty about what's to come next.
"I had issues with the old regime ... but when Ali Abdullah Saleh died, I cried. He was President when I was born, when I was a student. We all looked up to him, he was a father to our generation. His death has broken everyone. There is no more protection"
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-12-08/listen-harrowing-account-yemen-s-post-assassination-lockdown and also https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/videos/1581258761927148/
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Who Killed Yemen's Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh?
Well as reported yesterday by Iranian researcher Dr. Mohamed Sadiq al-Husseini, Saleh was being prepared to lead a coup against the supporters of Ansarullah for his return to the Yemeni scene and eventually install his son Ahmed, who is based in the UAE, as Yemen’s president under the patronage of the UAE.
In the details of this coup, Hussieni reported that the coup against Ansarullah began about eight months ago. Mohammed Ben Zayed, General Shaul Mofaz, former Israeli War Minister, Mohammed Dahlan, former Fatah Central Committee member, and Ahmad Ali Abdullah Saleh, the son of the slain Yemeni president, were all involved in the planning. The planning of the operation was initiated in Abu Dhabi, where the coup plan was penned by Mohammed bin Zayed. After that, the headquarters of the meetings was transferred to the island of Socotra, which was sold by the ousted Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi to the Emiratis. A total of nine meetings were held on the island, involving UAE officers deployed in southern Yemen and Israeli officers recommended by Shaul Mofaz.
Husseini continued, that as part of the plan, it was decided to train 1,200 close associates of Ali Abdullah Saleh in the camps of the UAE forces in the city of Aden to be the leading forces for those to be later recruited and trained in Sanaa and its environs, which will then be responsible for carrying out the coup d'état.
And then it began, funds were allocated to cover the training costs of a total of 6,000 of Saleh’s men in Sanaa and its environs under the umbrella of training for the reinforcement of fronts. Mohammed bin Zayed's operations room transferred a total of 289 million USD from Aden to Sanaa through intermediaries of Ali Abdullah Saleh's relatives between February and June 2017. In addition, 100 million USD were transferred to Saleh between August 2017 and the end of October 2017.
The coup was supposed to be carried out on the 24th of August, but the UAE and Israeli officers postponed the operation to a later date for two reasons: first, the lack of readiness of Saleh's forces, and second was Ansarullah supporters discovering the coup plan and controlling all entrances to the capital and its perimeter tightly.
A new decision was taken by the coup planners to arm and train the total of 8,000 fighters in Sanaa and its surroundings. The mission was entrusted to local smugglers, along with 16 supply experts from ISIS who had been transferred from Iraq to the Sheikh Osman area of Aden earlier this year as well as four former Israeli officers who had entered the Aden area with the help of the Emiratis.
According to Ansarullah supporters, weapons were covertly stored in 49 different secret points in Sanaa, as per a specific mobilization plan that depends on the distribution of weapons to individuals to be deployed in the city at zero hour determined by the military operations room to certify the element of surprise and to secure speed of decisiveness when starting to move against the supporters of Ansarullah in the capital Sanaa. This plan did eventually work from a military technical point of view late last week, which made Ali Abdullah Saleh refuse to make any concessions to Ansarullah until the night of December 3rd, as he believed he had enough weapons and gunmen to control Sanaa within a maximum of six hours but eventually failed.
When the leadership of the Ansarullah movement realized that the negotiations with Saleh will not work, they informed the mediators that they can guarantee a safe exit for Ali Abdullah Saleh in exchange for ending the coup, warning that if he did not agree, they would resolve the situation militarily and control Sanaa and its surroundings within three hours, which is what happened between the 2nd and 3rd of December 2017.
After the situation was completely resolved in Sanaa by Ansarullah, Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced to flee outside the capital. This was done in coordination with the UAE through his son, where the coalition warplanes escorted his motorcade, consisting of three armored vehicles. The convoy also included six four-wheel-drive vehicles equipped with 23 mm machine guns and two Toyota Pickups with 37 mm machine guns.
Lebanese based Al Mayadeen TV channel reported that 11 checkpoints were bombed by the coalition warplanes to secure a passage way for Saleh to flee from Sanaa.
This led to an exchange of fire at one of the checkpoints in Sayyan south of Yemen with Ansarullah supporters. The coalition aircraft bombed the site of the clash to prevent Ansarullah fighters from arresting Ali Abdullah Saleh alive so as not to reveal the details of the plot carried out in coordination with the UAE, the Saudis and the Israelis.
Hence, the decision to terminate Ali Abdullah Saleh was taken by the leadership of the coalition to cover up direct military and security cooperation with Israel in order to take control over the capital Sanaa – by Marwa Osman
https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/war-on-yemen/2041-ali-abdullah-saleh.html
my comment: This would explain a great part of the background – if really true.
cp1a Am wichtigsten: Seuchen / Most important: Epidemics
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Yemen - Diphtheria and Cholera (DG ECHO, WHO, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 8 December 2017)
Diphtheria is making an alarming comeback in Yemen, with 318 clinically-diagnosed cases and 21 deaths reported in 15 governorates in the last three months (3 December). Ibb remains the most affected governorate (67% of reported cases). A vaccination campaign started in the two worst-affected sub-districts, targeting 8500 children.
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In shadow of war, a silent killer is claiming Yemen’s children
Aid organisations fear cholera will affect a million people by the year-end, most of them children
The epidemic is the worst in recent history with a million cases feared by the year end. Most of them — 6,00,000 — are likely to be children.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) vice-president Christine Beerli said the epidemic has highlighted what “a horrible catastrophic situation” the conflict has turned out to be. Beerli, whose organisation is among a handful working across Yemen, said their work in the country has been tougher in part because “almost nobody is speaking of the conflict’’, even in the western media.
The epidemic, Beerli underlined, is not unrelated to the conflict and the embargo.
My comment: ”is not unrelated”: This is Western mainstream wording. It is caused by, and both are to a great part caused by the US.
cp1b Am wichtigsten: Nach Salehs Tod / Most important: After Saleh’s death
Siehe / Look at cp1, cp5
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The ex-president is dead. Will the son rise over Yemen?
With the ex-president gone, attention has switched to his eldest son. Now aged 45, and rarely photographed without his dictator-style dark glasses, Ahmed Ali has been described as a man with "zero popularity and charisma" who would not be recognised in Yemen's streets unless with his motorcade. Regardless of that, there's talk of him stepping into his father's shoes. He seems to want to, and last week Saudi media quoted him as saying “I will lead the battle until the last Houthi is thrown out of Yemen.”
The Saudis and their main coalition allies, the Emiratis, also appear eager to befriend him now.
This has led to suggestions that he is being drawn into the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthis. Whether that would be a good idea is another matter; anyone thinking of striking a deal with Ahmed Ali would be well advised to look closely at his career to date – by: Brian Whitaker
http://al-bab.com/blog/2017/12/ex-president-dead-will-son-rise-over-yemen
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Film: What's next for Yemen after Saleh's death?
Kim Sharif, Human Right Activist on the unlawful Saudis' war on Yemen
https://www.facebook.com/100976976914141/videos/vb.100976976914141/559779294367238/?type=2&theater
Remark: From Iran.
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As the War in Yemen Spins Out of Control, Tehran Finds Itself Deprived of a Say
Now pretty much everyone tries to predict the future of the Yemeni conflict after the murder of Abdullah Saleh. But to make such a prediction one must examine the reasons behind the Yemeni war and establish the degree of interference that states like Saudi Arabia and Iran have shown so far..
The problem of Yemen’s crisis is critical, as there’s a massive gap between the industrial south that serves as home to some 20% of the total population of Yemen and the archaic north. The gap has never been overcome. Moreover, the so-called “Arab Spring” caught the country while it was still in a transitional period triggering a number of serious conflicts within Yemeni society.
Frankly speaking, if Saudi Arabia hadn’t launched its invasion, the longtime strongman would most certainly have achieved power once again, since there has been no other leader in Yemen who could have contested him.
The murder of Saleh is mysterious in every sense. There is no logic behind the alleged narrative, since the Houthis have no chance to survive both politically and physically without Saleh’s support. Unable to survive the political fallout from Saleh’s death, only amid continued conflict can the Houthis hope to survive.
If the Houthis were indeed behind the murder of the former President of Yemen, they have indeed achieved a small tactical victory but at the same time made themselves political outcasts. With Saleh, they had a chance for a political settlement, alone they will likely be crushed regardless of their fierce resistance, as every single other tribe will be forced to fight them.
There’s no scenario under which Tehran could assassinate Saleh, since his death created a long list of challenges that can hardly be seen as beneficial.
Now that all of Yemen’s tribes are going to be forced to unite against the Houthis, Yemen will be closed from Iranian influence, as any ties with Tehran are going to be punished.
There are reports that the son of the former President Ahmed Saleh has already sent a number of the Republican Guard units to the north of the country, who are now approaching Marib.
After the collapse of the coalition between the Houthis and Abdullah Saleh, all the existing maps depicting zones of control over Yemeni territory have shifted – by Alexander Orlov
My comment: The Iranians obviously have nothing to do with Saleh’s murder (or killing), nor any other force like Israel or the Saudis would have had the opportunity to do so. It’s obvious that the Houthis did if; if the author thinks that this would have been a suicidal stupidity he certainly is true; but that’s how it is.
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Yemen has a new chance to end its brutal civil war
While these observers see Saleh's killing as a step backward, the deaths of important leaders have historically created opportunity for conflict mediation. New leaders often have something to prove; they don't want to begin their careers by continuing a devastating conflict and want to be seen as national heroes.
Needless to say, this is a very optimistic view.
http://www.dbknews.com/2017/12/11/yemen-civil-war-saleh-peace-houthi-saudi-arabia-iran-conflict/
(B K P)
Does Saleh's Death Signal the End of the Yemen War?
Following Saleh's death, the Houthis are likely to suffer a further decline in their popular support, which was already waning as a result of the never-ending conflict.
While the remaining units loyal to Saleh may abandon the Houthis and join forces with the anti-Houthi coalition, it’s not clear that their defection will alter the balance in the year-long military stalemate between the Houthis and the government/Coalition forces.
Similarly, it is too early to judge if or how the end of the Houthi-Saleh coalition will affect prospects for a political resolution of the conflict – by Gerald Feierstein
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/does-salehs-death-signal-the-end-the-yemen-war-23579
My comment: Feierstein is no expert but a mouthpiece: http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/middle-east-institute-gerald-feierstein-uae-saudi-yemen.
Comment: Gerald M. Feierstein was US Ambassador to #Yemen from 2010 to 2013. He never hid the fact he disliked Saleh
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1582186395167718
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Saleh’s assassination adds new twist to Yemen’s complex war
Neither a military victory nor a diplomatic solution appears in the cards anytime soon, meaning the threat to Yemen’s security – and that of the region – will continue.
(unrated B P)
Audio: The killing of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been hailed by the Houthis as the “well-deserved” killing of a “traitor”, while others have slammed it for being the disastrous mishandling of a very delicate situation.
Whichever way one looks at it, his killing was a decisive event in the country's complex war, with the question being whether it was ultimately a "good" development or a bad one.
[Talk: Andrew Korybko, Prof. Dr. Bischara Ali Egal, Stig Jarle Hansen
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Saleh’s death: The end of a Yemeni affair
Past misgivings aside, for a very brief period this week, many Yemenis hedged their bets on Saleh as the one man who could put a stop to the Houthis and potentially end the conflict. Now that he is gone, Yemenis are bracing for a period of Houthi dominance. Yemen’s fate has become more uncertain than ever, now that Yemenis lost their favorite man whom they loved to hate.
http://www.arabiafoundation.org/arabia-comment/salehs-death-the-end-of-a-yemeni-affair/
My comment: Anti-Houthi article.
(unrated A P)
Press TV's interview with Muhammad al-Bukhaiti
This program is about Ali Abdullah Saleh’s death. The interview is about the covert role Saleh has been playing in Saudi aggression against Yemen and the future of his party and chances of Ansarullah coming to terms with his party.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/06/544665/Ali-Abdullah-Saleh-Ansarullah-Yemen
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The last hours of Yemen's Saleh
Saleh’s death caps a 40-year political career that charts Yemen’s tragic modern history.
The latest events mean the war in Yemen is likely to escalate.
A day before they killed Yemen’s former president, gunmen from the Iran-aligned Houthi militia group overran one of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s fortified compounds in Sanaa.
When Houthi militia neared the palace, Saleh’s guards fired. The Houthis, experts in mountain guerrilla warfare, overran the palace with grenades and seized it.
The Houthis wanted Saleh to “hand over his weapons and disarm his fighters,” a senior Saleh party official told Reuters. “He refused.”
Another party official said that, contrary to reports that Saleh was in his car trying to flee when he was killed on Dec. 4, the former president had been executed with a gunshot to the head after making a last stand at his house.
Now, the Saleh associate says he and his colleagues are afraid the Houthis will turn against all of them.
“The Houthis want to kill us all.”
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Yemen: Why death of ex-dictator makes ending war harder, and more urgent
With the killing of deposed dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh, the warring sides in Yemen have lost their main exit strategy and interlocuter, with experts warning that the parties must be brought to the negotiation table before the conflict spirals further out of control.
One tiny country is quietly leading the drive for peace talks in Yemen: Oman.
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Yemen heads for more uncertainty after Saleh’s murder
It’s not completely clear who is now going to lead not only the military and security forces loyal to Saleh but also his political block, the General People’s Congress, Juneau said.
However, the biggest question is what happens with the UN-led attempts to find a political solution to the ongoing impasse.
And conditions for a political solution are even less ripe now that Saleh is out of the picture, he said.
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/12/09/yemen-saleh-houthi-war-saudi-arabia/
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Yemen After Saleh’s Death – by Mohamed Mahad D. Darar
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/yemen-after-salehs-death-23577
My comment: With the criminal advice to the Saudis to enforce the Yemen blockade.
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Saleh urges Yemenis to fight Houthis in his last handwritten note
These pictures purportedly show the death note of slain Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh believed to be handwritten by him a day before he was killed by Houthi militiamen in Sanaa last week.
The death note dates back to Dec. 3, just one day before the former president was killed.
It reads: “If you find this paper, know that our homeland is valuable.
“My wish is for my children and my people to not surrender to these criminal militias (Houthis) and to not handover the Republican of Yemen to them. I wish you become a nightmare that beats their sleep.
“At this moment, I see myself among the many traitors who sold Yemen for a low price. Greetings to you, the great Yemeni people, may we meet in the highest paradise."
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Das schrieb Jemens Ex-Präsident einen Tag vor gewaltsamen Tod im Testament – Medien
Der Fernsehsender Alarabiya verfügt Eigenangaben zufolge über ein Foto des Testaments des ehemaligen Präsidenten von Jemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Der Text soll einen Tag vor der Ermordung des Ex-Staatchefs verfasst worden sein.
„Wenn ihr dieses Papier findet, wisst dann, dass die Heimat kostbar und nicht zu vernachlässigen ist. Ich bitte meine Kinder und mein Volk: Ergebt euch diesen verbrecherischen Volkswehren nicht, gebt den republikanischen Jemen nicht auf, werdet zu ihrem Alptraum“
https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20171208318618758-jemen-ex-praesident-saleh-testament/
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Ali Abdullah Saleh: Price of brinkmanship
Saleh, who ruled a fractious Yemen through tumult and despair, has become the civil war’s most well-known casualty
[Obituary]
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/ali-abdullah-saleh-price-of-brinkmanship-1.2137499 from Washington Post
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Brutal legacy: In death as in life, Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen a worse place
The strongman’s rule brought misery to the Yemeni people, who must now suffer further intensification of fighting because of his killing in early December.
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Behind Saleh’s bizarre decision to turn against the Houthis
Does all this justify his overwhelming hatred to the extent of handing over Imran and Sanaa and other cities and governorates to the Houthis? The legitimate figures we spoke to after the Arab coalition intervened said the army, whose members are mainly from the North, the Republican Guards and special forces would only obey Saleh especially as all officers (even the Shafa'i ones) were loyal to him and were not used to obeying Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi. If his hatred was less, he could have prevented the Houthi expansion into Imran, Sanaa and other areas.
My comment: From Saudi media, thus with an evident anti-Houthi bias.
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Ali Abdullah Saleh's Fatal Calculation
Could the Man Who Made Modern Yemen Be Its Undoing?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/yemen/2017-12-06/ali-abdullah-salehs-fatal-calculation
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A lawmaker said the death of former Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, thwarted a conspiracy "to completely destroy Yemen".
"A plot had been designed to stage a coup against the Yemeni nation and the [Houthi] Ansarullah movement.
https://financialtribune.com/articles/national/77603/saleh-s-death-foiled-coup-plot-in-yemen
My comment: From Iran.
and more:
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2017/12/08/dyer-yemens-old-fox-dies-treachery-lives
cp1c Am wichtigsten: Vormarsch der Saudi-Koalition auf Hodeida / Most import: Saudi coalition advance at Hodeida
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Major collapse in Houthi militias' defences, says Arab Coalition Forces Commander
Brigadier-General Abdul Salam Al-Shehhi, Commander of the Arab Coalition Forces on the west coast of Yemen, has stated that the UAE, Sudanese and Yemeni armed forces are conducting, with courage and determination, an epic battle to liberate Yemen from the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militias.
Al-Shehhi said in a statement to the Emirates News Agency, WAM, that the Houthi militias have suffered a 'major collapse' in their defences, adding that hundreds of their dead, injured, and captured members have been treated according to International Laws.
He went on to say that the battle currently being conducted in Yemen's west coast has dealt with Houthi militias only, adding that Yemen's National Resistance Forces have assisted the Coalition's task to eliminate the Houthi threat.
http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302653414
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After Controlling “Hais”, The Southern Resistance Reaches “Al-Tuhaita”, The Third Directorate of Al-Hodeida”
Field sources indicated that the southern resistance fights violent battels with Al-Houthi militias in the directorates southern Al-Hodeida under air force cover from the Arab Ally. Al-Houthi Sources indicated that the Arab Ally air force targeted a telecommunication transmission tower in Al-Tuhaita. Field sources indicated that Al-Houthi posts are falling very quickly at the west coast as the southern resistance managed to fully control Al-Khoukha, Al-Haima, Mafrek Zubaid and Abu Musa Al-Asharay camp and now heading to Zubaid, Al-Garhey and Bait Al-Faqeeh, only in three days.
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Saudi-led coalition advances in Hodeidah province in Yemen
Supported by UAE troops operating as part of the Arab Coalition, the Yemeni National Resistance Forces began their offensive in Al Khoja, a district of Hodeida on the Red Sea.
During a military operation in Hodeidah province were spotted the modern military vehicle and tanks of Armed Forces of UAE. The UAE’s Leclerc main battle tanks equipped with the AZUR urban warfare protection package were spotted during advance in the West Coast of Yemen
Also, Armed Forces of UAE had deployed a modern Patria AMV 8×8 armoured vehicles to Yemen (photos)
http://defence-blog.com/army/saudi-led-coalition-advances-in-hodeidah-province-in-yemen.html
Remark: Leclerc from France, Patria AMV from Finland.
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Photos / Film: UAE army heading offensive against Houthis in Western coast of Yemen. Tanks Leclerc, 155mm SPH G6, Agrab mortars, Patria AMV
https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/939566687560568832
https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/939567415721111552
https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/939571033576759296
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Yemen government makes fresh gains in Hodeida
Yemen’s government forces have continued to advance on the country’s western coast after pushing Al Houthis from a few small villages in Khokha district in Hodeida province.
Army commanders said on Saturday that government forces took control of villages close to Abu Musa Al Ash’ari army camp as military explosives experts defused a large number of landmines planted by Al Houthis, who took shelter in the mountains and in other territories in the province.
Government forces on Tuesday broke a months-long military stalemate on the Red Sea coast by booting out Al Houthi militants from a strategic mountain, and a road that links Hodeida city to the southern city of Aden.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemen-government-makes-fresh-gains-in-hodeida-1.2137905 and also http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302652946 and http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302652960 and http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302652976
My comment: It’s told clearly that they will advance to start an assault on Hodeidah – which will lead to a humanitarian disaster as the last supply line to Northern Yemen would be cut.
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Yemen rebels lose more territory to government forces in Hodeidah
Elsewhere, at least 26 Houthis were killed and a weapons store destroyed in coalition strikes on a training camp in Hajjah province, north of Hodeidah
Yemeni pro-government forces captured two more districts in Hodeidah province over the weekend as they close in on a key port through which the Houthi rebels control the bulk of humanitarian shipments to the country.
The Hais and Al Tuhaita districts were captured by government troops and resistance fighters on Saturday, a spokesman for the army's 4th military zone said.
"Our forces advanced to take over two new districts of Hodeidah province and they are approaching a third district, Zabeed, which we expect to fall soon.
and also with map:
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Hadi government-aligned forces are advancing towards Hays from al Khawkhah in southern al #Hudaydah, western #Yemen. Hadi government forces are currently stalled on the parallel road in #Taiz towards Hudaydah.
https://twitter.com/MaherFarrukh/status/939586637687853057
and
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Saudi-Led Coalition Advances on Hodeidah after Liberating Khokha
Two days after liberating the strategic Yemeni town of al-Khokha, Saudi-led Ara coalition forces advanced further towards the west coast of the country, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on Saturday.
The Coalition, Yemen National Army and legitimate government of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi People’s Resistance continued to make advances on the ground, heading to the West coast of Yemen towards Hodeidah, said UAE’s official news agency WAM according to SPA.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1108156/saudi-led-coalition-advances-hodeidah-after-liberating-khokha and by Emirati media, with film: https://www.thenational.ae/uae/watch-uae-armed-forces-help-military-advance-in-yemen-1.683212
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Southern resistance forces allied with the UAE are advancing into Hays town in Hodeidah province and the Houthis are retreating towards Zabeed farther north. (map)
https://twitter.com/ammar82/status/939998396601061376
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Yemeni National Army Seizes Khawkhah
Yemeni government forces have confirmed the seizure of Al Khawkhah, in Hodeida, and regaining the control over Abu Musa Ashaari camp, following conflicts with Houthis.
The Yemeni National Army, supported by the Saudi-led Coalition, achieved a strategic victory in the western coastal front in its launched operation to restore Hodeida and its port from insurgent Houthis -- the operation falls under the legit government comprehensive battle to liberate Yemen from the Iran-allied groups.
My comment: “Yemeni army” means here: president Hadi’s army. Earlier reporting YPR 365, cp17. In this AA report is clearly expressed that the Hadi / Saudi coalition troops plan to assault Hodeida – what would cause a humanitarian disaster and would cut of Northern Yemen from its last line of supply.
Comment: It all revolves around the taking of #Hodeidah. Missile attacks and Iranian arms are just a side narrative.
Hodeidah is the last lifeline to north #Yemen. Lives are at stake
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1581607588558932
and Sudanese mercenaries singing:
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Film: Previous artistic participation of brothers in the army # Sudanese co-forces # Arab Alliance: “Huthi fled my brothers # Huthi fled. Perspiration continues for you”
https://twitter.com/ALyemenNow/status/939742772063539200
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Yemen: ICRC urges warring sides on Red Sea coast to protect civilian life
As reports of intense fighting along Yemen's Red Sea Coast continue to emerge, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges all parties to the conflict in Yemen to respect the lives of civilians.
"Fighting along the Red Sea Coast is reported to be approaching densely inhabited urban areas. This is happening against the backdrop of a catastrophic humanitarian situation and a Yemeni population brought to its knees after almost three years of conflict," said Robert Mardini, who directs the ICRC's operations in the Near and Middle East.
WHY WE OPPOSE THE COALITION'S HUDAYDAH OFFENSIVE
There is consensus among the agencies and organizations responsible for providing humanitarian assistance to Yemen that this offensive will dangerously disrupt humanitarian and commercial deliveries, which are absolutely vital for the survival of millions of people.
The coalition and the Yemeni government argue that the liberation of Hudaydah would cut off a key Houthi supply line and allow the free flow of aid and goods into Yemen. We believe that this is simply not the case, for two specific and interconnected reasons:
- We do not believe that a swift, decisive military victory in Hudaydah is possible
- Even the successful liberation of Hudaydah would not result in an increased flow of aid and goods to those in need. It is very likely that a successful offensive would leave the city and its port in ruins. The reconstruction of the port and its supporting infrastructure would take a long time, and many thousands of people would starve to death in the interim. Even the very best-case scenario--a speedy liberation of the city, with the port remaining intact--would not result in an increased flow of goods. Saudi Arabia has maintained a partial blockade on the port for two and a half years.
I understand those who insist that the Houthis must be destroyed before any other considerations are dealt with. This war never should have happened, those who started it are criminals, but it is happening, and millions of people are starving. The humanitarian crisis will continue as long as the war goes on – by Will Picard
https://www.yemenpeaceproject.org/blog-x/why-we-oppose-hudaydah-offensive
and also
TELL CONGRESS TO HELP PREVENT AN ATTACK ON YEMEN'S HUDAYDAH PORT!
https://www.yemenpeaceproject.org/take-action/hudaydah
cp2 Allgemein / General
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CARE: "Alle Kriegsparteien im Jemen nehmen Bevölkerung in Geiselhaft"
Welche humanitäre Katastrophe dieser vergessene Krieg für die Menschen bringt, erläutert Karl-Otto Zentel von der Hilfsorganisation CARE.
Das Land ist deutlich gekennzeichnet von knapp drei Jahren Bürgerkrieg. Der Privatsektor ist zusammengebrochen, genauso wie der staatliche Sektor. Die staatlichen Angestellten haben seit vielen Monaten kein Geld mehr bekommen. Die Reserven der Familien sind aufgebraucht. Jemen hat immer 80 bis 90 Prozent seiner Grundnahrungsmittel importieren müssen. Die großen Häfen, über die ein wesentlicher Teil des Umschlags erfolgte, liegen im nördlichen Teil, der jetzt von den Huthi-Rebellen kontrolliert wird. Wenn diese Wege blockiert werden, dann haben sie als Effekt weniger Nahrungsmittel im Land, steigende Preise, die Menschen haben noch weniger Zugang zu Nahrung.
Unser Horror-Szenario wäre, dass durch eine weitere Blockade der Häfen, durch die Einschränkung des Luftraums, dringend benötigte Hilfslieferungen nicht mehr ins Land kommen, dass sich die Cholera weiter ausbreitet, dass vielleicht noch weitere Krankheiten dazukommen, dass sich die Unterernährung der Bevölkerung noch verstärkt.
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Iran Denies Supplying Missiles to Yemen
The Iranian foreign ministry once again rejected western media reports claiming that the country has provided Yemen with missiles which have been fired at Saudi Arabia.
"The report attributed to one of the UN investigation teams was fake and has no authenticity. We support the Yemeni people spiritually and reject these allegations. Whatever happens in Yemen is related to the country and the resistance of the Yemeni people," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi told reporters in his weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960920000869 and also http://www.irna.ir/en/NewsContent-id_82759811.aspx
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For the past three years the Houthis have failed to establish any alliance with any of the Yemeni factions. In 2014 they scared off all political parties. During the war their only ally was Saleh, and well...you know how that alliance ended!
https://twitter.com/ammar82/status/939978591441489925
don’t you think that the devastating Saudi-led air campaign has greatly reduced, if not eliminated, the opportunities for political alliances with other factions? Not to whitewash the Houthis’ actions, but hasn’t the war played into their hands in ways more than one?
https://twitter.com/adamzi88/status/940082070180610049
No the war should have helped Houthi gather Yemenis around him to defeat any foreign intrusion. But the opposite happened. Every single faction out of the 17 different parties are now standing against Houthis... The latest one was the GPC
https://twitter.com/ammar82/status/940083052197199872
well if that’s the case then the Houthis don’t seem to be politically smart. But the Saudi-led war has given the Houthis the easy excuse of accusing their rivals of treason for supposedly siding with the invaders and subsequent elimination, the latest being Saleh.
https://twitter.com/adamzi88/status/940085610156400642
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Yemen ranking, 2017. (of 137 countries) Roads quality: 133rd Airport quality: 136th Electricity supply: 134th Education system: 133rd Math and science: 135th Innovation: 134th Life expectancy: 114th Security: 136th Trust in politicians: 115th
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/937743310160056320
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Conflicting News about Four Legitimacy Brigades to Join Al-Houthi Militias with Full Weapons in Naham
The Kuwaiti political analyst, Dr. Aid Manna, uncovered a severe scandal and betrayal against the legitimacy armed forces in Mareb as he said that seven brigades were sent from Mareb to liberate Sanaa and four of them joined Al-Houthi militias with their weapons and announced their loyalty to Al-Houthi.
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U.N. says missiles fired at Saudi Arabia have 'common origin'
United Nations officials have found that missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels appear to have a “common origin,” but they are still investigating U.S. and Saudi claims that Iran supplied them, according to a confidential report.
They found “that the missiles had similar structural and manufacturing features which suggest a common origin,” said Guterres
The components “bore the castings of a logo similar to that of the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group” - a U.N.-blacklisted company.
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„Saudi-Krieg gegen Jemen von Washington geplant“
Laut Stephen Lendman, einem in Chicago ansässigen Politik-Journalisten und Schriftsteller, wurde Saudi-Arabiens Angriffskrieg gegen den Jemen in Washington DC geplant und organisiert.
Lendman äußerte sich diesbezüglich in einem Interview am Samstag und kommentierte eine Erklärung des US-Außenministers Rex Tillerson, der Saudi-Arabien vor den Folgen der Aktionen im Nahen Osten gewarnt hatte.
http://www.gegenfrage.com/saudi-krieg-gegen-jemen-von-washington-geplant/
(B K P)
Film: Saudi war on Yemen was planned in Washington: Journalist
Saudi Arabia’s war of aggression against Yemen was planned and orchestrated in Washington, DC, according to Stephen Lendman, a journalist, writer and political analyst based in Chicago.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/09/545052/Saudi-war-on-Yemen-was-planned-in-Washington
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Film: 12/08/2017: CPC legacy inspires businessman | Yemen crossroads: Negotiate or fight after Saleh
From min 13:00: The death of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital on Monday at the hands of the rebel Shia Houthi group has plunged the war-torn country into further disarray. Why did Saleh switch sides from Houthi to Saudi Arabia? What direction will Sanaa go next? Interviewee: Nasser Arrabyee
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New Book Jan. 2018:
Destroying Yemen
What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World
Isa Blumi (Author)
Paperback, 312 pages. ISBN: 9780520296145. January 2018. $29.95, £24.95
Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces—supported by Britain and the United States—has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world’s media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full-scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first in-depth historical account of the transnational origins of this war, placing it in the illuminating context of Yemen’s relationship with major powers since the Cold War. Bringing new sources and a deep understanding to bear on Yemen’s profound, unwitting implication in international affairs, this explosive book ultimately tells an even larger story of today’s political economy of global capitalism, development, and the war on terror as disparate actors intersect in Arabia.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520296145
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Book Review – Helen Lackner’s ‘Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State’
T he need for information on the country is in sore demand, and the lack of neutral, reliable information is painfully felt. With Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State (Saqi 2017), Helen Lackner has produced a book that fills this gap, addressing both fellow scholars and interested observers.
The array of topics of this book is correspondingly broad.
The strength of this book lies in the breadth of its topics and in their balanced presentation. Lackner’s caution in properly weighting the details of a very complicated set of developments can be attributed to her long-standing research expertise and first-hand experience in Yemen.
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Film: Yemen: Media battles, narrative divides
How the death of Ali Abdullah Saleh put the media spotlight on Yemen.
We look at the shifts in regional coverage of Saleh's death and analyse how Western media have covered the war and the powers behind it.
Contributors: Afrah Nasser, editor in chief, Sana'a Review; Baraa Shiban, Yemen researcher, Reprieve; As'ad Abukhalil, professor, Stanislaus State University; Rami Khouri, journalism professor, American University of Beirut
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/12/yemen-media-battles-narrative-divides-171209075306301.html = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it3brQ9cvAU
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Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen is unprecedented—and flawed
The war has demonstrated a newfound Saudi willingness to use force, but the country has not shown equivalent capacity to implement a political strategy
While its Western allies have continued to support it, its reputation has been damaged by the civilian casualties and humanitarian disaster, just at a time when it is trying to rebrand itself and win investment. MBS could show decisive leadership by calling a ceasefire, declaring victory and marshalling his many foreign allies in support of a political deal acceptable to Saudi Arabia – by Jane Kinninmont
(B H K P)
[Overview]: The catastrophe in Yemen
A Saudi Arabian blockade has left millions of civilians starving, and without fuel or clean water. What is this conflict about? Here's what you need to know:
http://theweek.com/articles/741879/catastrophe-yemen
(B K)
Riyadh Trying to Make Up for Defeat in Yemen by Punishing Civilians: Activist
Abdulsalam Aldhahibi, a Yemeni human rights activist based in London expressed deep concern about the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and said the Saudi-led coalition is trying to make up for its defeat in the war on the Arabian Peninsula country by punishing civilians.
Remark: From Iran, pro-Houthi.
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Audio: Jemen: Hilferuf aus einem Land am Abgrund
Dem krisengeschüttelten Jemen und seiner bisher von verheerenden Häuserkämpfen verschonten Hauptstadt drohen nun jedoch noch mehr Krieg und Gewalt. Das berichten die Mitarbeiter der wenigen Hilfswerke, die Zugang in das Land haben. Eine von ihnen ist Maria Rita Ceccaroni von „Save The Children“, die vor einer Reise in das Bürgerkriegsland zurück nach Rom gekehrt ist.
„Fakt ist, Nahrung und Hilfsmittel erreichen das Land nicht mehr. Kinder verhungern. Während Hilfswerke nicht hinkommen können, verschanzen sich viele Familie in ihren Häusern. Wir wissen aber nicht, wie es ihnen geht, was genau sie benötigen. Da findet ein Krieg ohne Skrupel statt.“
http://de.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/12/08/jemen_hilferuf_aus_einem_land_am_abgrund/1353686
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This is why Yemen is a constant war zone
Yemen’s complex history is one of conflict and political rivalry that has continued for nearly a century.
The Houthi movement, officially known as Ansar Allah (translation: supporters of God), began in the 1990s as a theological movement that preached peace and tolerance in Yemen.
But in 2004, the group picked up arms and declared war on the government. An uprising occurred and government forces killed the Houthi’s leader.
With Saleh dead and his allied forces facing an intensified battle with Houthi fighters, the future of war-torn Yemen is uncertain, and hopes of putting an end to the bloody civil war look bleak.
http://www.wearethemighty.com/news/this-is-why-yemen-is-a-constant-war-zone
(B H P)
"Humanitarian aid is being politicised and used as a bargaining chip. This is unacceptable, illegal, and immoral."
https://twitter.com/ICRC/status/938433242411257856
(A P)
Multiple reports claim that Tarek Saleh has arrived in Marib. Not confirmed yet.
https://twitter.com/ammar82/status/939185567266496512
Remark: Saleh’s nephew, involved in fighting at Sanaa in the last days.
(A P)
Yemen rebels 'disrupt internet nationwide'
Yemen's Houthi rebels have been disrupting internet access nationwide as they consolidate their grip of the capital, residents and an Arab digital rights organisation told AFP on Saturday. "Yemen has only one internet service provider, YemenNet, and any group or entity that controls it or has influence over it has the ability to disrupt access to the internet, so the disruptions are nationwide and not limited to areas under the control of the Houthis," said Lara Bitar, the lead researcher at SMEX.
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/12/9/yemen-rebels-disrupt-internet-nationwide
and
(A P)
Internet Shutdown in Yemen: Recurring Disruptions Threaten Civilian Safety, Human Rights, and Press Freedom
On Thursday night, the Houthis, the northern Yemen-based insurgent group in control of most of Sana’a since 2015, completely shut down the internet for close to 30 minutes. Earlier in the day, the group took measures to disrupt and limit access to the internet for the second time in one week
or
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#Yemen's internet may not be deteriorating via imposed censorship blocks. Network instability remains elevated – Websites, social media & messaging platforms lurch in and out of availability.
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/939115966075727872
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U.N. Panel Finds Evidence of Iranian Hardware in Yemeni Rebels’ Missile. And American.
Investigation into weapon’s origins yields clues, but no smoking gun.
While the new evidence has strengthened the case against Iran, it has not been sufficient to convince the U.N. to explicitly accuse Tehran of supplying the Houthis with banned missile technology. A U.N. panel of experts charged with monitoring violations of Yemen’s 2015 arms embargo concluded last month that for the time being it “has no evidence as to the identity of the broker or supplier.” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, meanwhile, stopped short of charging Iran with upgrading the Houthis’ missile program.
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Growing risks to marine and aviation assets in Houthi-controlled territory as coalition-backed forces mobilise in central Yemen
The offensive along the Red Sea coastline, coupled with the arrival of Saudi-led coalition military vehicles and supplies from al-Ghayda, Mahra province, indicates that the coalition’s priority is to stop weapons smuggling to Houthi insurgents through the Red Sea and Mahra province coastal regions.
Coalition backed military operations near Sanaa airport and Hodeidah port are likely in the coming weeks, with a high risk of collateral damage to those assets.
cp2a Saudische Blockade / Saudi blockade
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Film: 22.8 million people depend on goods coming through Hodeida port in #Yemen. The blockade caused inflation that priced most people out of the market.
https://twitter.com/NRC_Norway/status/940123507127738368
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Saudi war hampering ICRC aid delivery in Yemen: Spokesman
The Saudi military aggression and blockade of Yemen is “hampering” the ability of humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to deliver aid to the impoverished Arab nation.
With the blockade that came, it really intensified the situation in a negative way,” Ralph Elhaje, an ICRC spokesman, told Press TV in an interview on Sunday.
He also said the outbreak of cholera in Yemen is due to the Saudi blockade, which is preventing proper supplies to be brought in to contain this "easily treatable disease."
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Blockade Threatens Severe Famine in Yemen
“The cost of this blockade is being measured in the number of lives that are lost.”
Until the blockade is lifted, Yemen’s people will go on suffering from preventable hunger and disease
http://www.ri.org/from-the-field/blockade-threatens-severe-famine-yemen
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Yemen aid lost to corruption as US steps up humanitarian pressure
UN aid arriving at rebel-controlled ports in Yemen, including medicine and food, is being sold on the black market or provided to militia on the battle field rather than given to those who need it most, The National has learned.
The rebels also take advantage of corruption among the UN’s local partners. A human rights lawyer working in Sanaa, who asked only to be identified as Laila, said aid is also diverted when it is handed over to local organisations for distribution.
But a spokeswoman for the UN's agency that delivers food supplies to the country said they were confident the aid was going to the needy, dismissing concerns about distribution.
Ms Etefa said the complaints about lack of access were out of date and that a total of three ships had moved to dock.
“We understand also that there are commercial ships that are getting to the ports.
My comments: The claims in parts contradict themselves. Corruption and looting related to humanitarian aid is nothing new, unfortunately. Of course Emirati propaganda exclusively blames the Houthis for that. Such a propaganda might be a preparatory support of the anti-Houthi assault against Hodeida (cp 1, 17), which actually will cut off Northern Yemen from all imports.
cp3 Humanitäre Lage / Humanitarian situation
Siehe / Look at cp1
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YEMEN FACES ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISES
https://www.dec.org.uk/press-release/yemen-faces-one-of-the-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crises
Remark: Collecting donations in Britain.
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FAO Yemen Situation Report - November 2017
17 million people are food insecure, a staggering seven million of whom are at risk of famine.
Acute food insecurity is expected to deteriorate further without continued, scaled up emergency food and livelihood assistance programmes. Air, sea, land blockade further exacerbating the availability and prices of fuel and basic food commodities.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/fao-yemen-situation-report-november-2017
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YEMEN: Humanitarian Fund Dashboard (YHF) (7 December 2017)
The Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF) mobilises and channels resources to humanitarian partners to respond to the critical needs of millions of people affected by the devastating humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-humanitarian-fund-dashboard-yhf-7-december-2017 and full https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/yemen_humanitarian_fund_dashboard_20171207_en.pdf
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JEMEN: VOM UNERWARTETEN INS UNBEKANNTE
Krieg, Blockaden, Tod und Leid. Das sind Begriffe, mit denen man den Jemen heute verbindet. Doch wie war das Leben dort, bevor der Krieg kam? Wie etwa sah der Alltag in einem im Dorf wie Al Moza’a, an der Küste des Roten Meeres, aus? Die 42-jährige Jemenitin Kadijah erinnert sich…
Die meisten Bewohner von Al Moza‘a flohen. Sie hielten die ständige Angst vor Luftangriffen und Raketen nicht mehr aus. Kadijah und ihre Familie konnten zusammen mit ihrem Nachbarn, der ein Auto besaß, das Dorf verlassen. Wie viele andere retteten sie sich in die nächstgrößere Stadt.
All die Jemeniten, denen dieses schwere Schicksal widerfahren ist, halten an dem Wenigen fest, dass ihnen der Krieg gelassen hat. Bei vielen sind es nur die Kleider, die sie am Leibe tragen. CARE steht diesen Menschen bei.
https://www.care.de/aktuelle-meldung/meldung/News/detail/jemen-vom-unerwarteten-ins-unbekannte/ und https://www.care.de/spenden/online-spenden/
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Die Lage im Jemen: Hunger, Gewalt, Helfer am Limit
Es fehlt an allem, die Helfer sind überfordert, sagt Djoen Besselink, dem Leiter der Hilfsorganisation "Ärzte ohne Grenzen" im Jemen dem Weltspiegel.
Besselink: Monat für Monat sehen wir Schusswunden, Verbrennungen - durch Minen, Bombardements und durch Luftangriffe. Menschen mit diesen Verletzungen kommen in unsere Krankenhäuser. Hinzu kommen viele indirekte Folgen des Krieges. Ärzte und Pfleger haben seit mehr als einem Jahr kein Gehalt bekommen. Arbeitnehmer im Gesundheitswesen sind gegangen. Viele Krankenhäuser wurden durch den Krieg zerstört und für viele ist es zu gefährlich, in Krankenhäuser zu gehen. Ich bin seit einem Jahr hier und die Not wird immer größer. Im letzten Jahr haben wir noch rund 200 Kleinkinder pro Monat behandelt. Heute sind es schon 800.
Die jüngsten Kämpfe hatten massive Folgen für unsere Krankenhäuser
Wir werden überflutet von Hilfsanfragen. Wir sind am Limit.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/interview-jemen-101.html
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Another NGO - Yahya Foundation Limited working in #Yemen, distributing food parcels in #Yareem-#Sanaa-#Dhamar. (photos)
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/posts/1582302695156088
(A H)
From UNDP: Check out this infographic! #Yemen, #16Days, #GBVteachin. Leave no one behind/Make Education Safe for All
https://twitter.com/AukeLootsma/status/939451314731405312
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Map: Yemen – Cholera outbreak, food insecurity and displacement - DG ECHO Daily Map | 08/12/2017
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WHO ramps up efforts to fight severe acute malnutrition cases in Yemen
A young mother sits in the waiting room of the Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sana’a, desperately holding onto her 10-month old baby girl, Menamah. The journey from their home in Al-Jawf governorate to the hospital has taken a physical toll on both mother and child. Menamah is suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and her frail, little body is further weakened by complications from pneumonia, gastroenteritis and a skin infection.
WHO is actively involved in rebuilding existing TFCs and, in addition, has distributed 120 nutritional kits to all TFCs in Yemen. These life-saving kits can treat up to 6000 cases of severe acute malnutrition.
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/who-ramps-efforts-fight-severe-acute-malnutrition-cases-yemen
cp5 Nordjemen und Huthis / Northern Yemen and Houthis
Mehr über Verhaftungen, Morde vor cp1 / More on detentions, murders above of cp1
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Yemen: “Just living has become more difficult”
Monia Khaled is water and sanitation supervisor for MSF in Yemen. This is her account of the dramatic changes in everyday life she has witnessed over the past two and a half years.
The war over the last two and half years has changed a lot of things here, and it’s had a big impact on public health. Some medications that my parents depend on haven’t been available for the past two months. Now we have to search for replacements or ask people we know coming from abroad to bring them in for us.
Many of the clinics and hospitals in Sana’a closed during the fighting this month
Every day is a struggle for many - just living has become more difficult.
http://www.msf.org/en/article/yemen-just-living-has-become-more-difficult = https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/yemen-just-living-has-become-more-difficult
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3 of 8 GPC Ministers Absent from Coup Cabinet Meeting in Sanaa
Prime Minister of the internationally unrecognized government Abdul-Aziz bin Habtour and ministers loyal to the General People’s Congress (GPC) resumed on Sunday their daily activity at their headquarters.
Also, the Houthi edition of SABA agency announced that bin Habtour held an expanded meeting with the ministers to normalize the security situation.
Among attendees from the GPC were:
Among GPC representatives who didn’t attend the cabinet session were:
They are most probably still under house arrest, amid leaked information that Houthi militias have no confidence in them and accuse them of backing the uprising launched by Saleh.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1109821/3-8-gpc-ministers-absent-coup-cabinet-meeting-sanaa
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Jemen: Ex-Präsident Saleh wurde im kleinen Familienkreis beigesetzt
Der von Huthi-Rebellen getötete frühere jemenitische Präsident Ali Abdullah Saleh ist in kleinem Kreis beigesetzt worden. Die Bestattung habe am Samstag in Salehs Heimatdorf nahe der Hauptstadt Sanaa stattgefunden, sagte ein Vertrauter der Familie. Es hätten nicht mehr als 20 Menschen an der Zeremonie teilnehmen dürfen, die von den schiitischen Rebellen streng überwacht worden sei.
Ein Huthi-Vertreter bestätigte, dass Saleh unter hohen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen beigesetzt worden sei. Den Informationen zufolge nahmen Parlamentspräsident Jahja Ali al-Rai, der Salehs Partei angehört, sowie Huthi-Kommandeur Ali Abu al-Hakim an der Beisetzung teil. Auch Salehs Sohn Madin und ein Neffe des Verstorbenen hätten dabei sein dürfen.
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Jemen versinkt im inneren Machtkampf
Huthi-Verbände und Saleh-treue Milizen kämpfen um die Vorherrschaft / Saudi-Arabien bombardiert weiter
haben sich auch am Wochenende Huthi-Milizen und Anhänger von Saleh heftige Straßenkämpfe in Sanaa und anderen Städten und Dörfern unter Kontrolle der Huthis geliefert. Nach Angaben des Roten Halbmondes starben dabei mindestens 250 Menschen, viele davon Zivilisten.
Mein Kommentar: Die Zahl bezieht sich auf die Opfer der Kämpfe insgesamt, die in sanaa schon längst wieder abgeflaut sind (Rotes kreuz: 234 Tote). Dazu kommen die Morde im Rahmen der politischen Verfolgungen.
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Yemen: Houthis Crack Down On Former President's Supporters
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23 orphans were abducted from the orphanage in Sanaa by a group of militias and I think they will be human shields in the lines of confrontation with legitimacy in the collar of Sana'a
https://twitter.com/malarab1/status/939999518262775809
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Houthi militias have killed and detained dozens of people from across the country's north
The militants appear to be escalating their crackdown on any possible sign of rebellion among their one-time allies from Saleh's party, the General People's Congress.
The crackdown included the region of al-Hodeidah, Rima, Haja and al-Mahwet
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1109881/houthis-kill-dozens-northern-yemen
My comment: By Saudi media.
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The report of human rights situation in #Marib : coup militia committed (9957) violations against civilians in areas that were under their control in #Marib Province between August 2014 and August 2017.
https://twitter.com/Marib_Gov2/status/939948283564191744
The assistant coordinator of Human rights Ministry in #Marib Mahmoud al-Aqaili:the report didn’t include all types of violations committed by the militia against civilians across the province but only in areas where the field monitoring team could reach
https://twitter.com/Marib_Gov2/status/939955928442589184
https://twitter.com/Marib_Gov2/status/939954152310001665
My comment: It will ever be more and more difficult to differ between facts and propaganda.
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[Film: Houthi Zaynabeyat women fighters; date not known]
https://twitter.com/abdurabusanaa/status/940001297520037889
and, by an anti-Iranian propaganda website:
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'Zaynabeyat', new Houthi-linked women militias threatening Yemen
A significant breakthrough in the terror activities of Houthi women militias in Yemen has been recently revealed, sources told the Baghdad Post Sunday.
The women militias, operating under the name of Zaynabeyat, began their activities in Sa'da before the fall of the capital Sana'a in September 2014.
The women militias have played a major role in storming houses of the supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Unprecedented migration of GPC members southward
An unprecedented rate of migration GPC party members from the Houthi-controlled Sana'a to south Yemen is still going on, according to several political sources.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13555
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Houthis committed 136 violations in Mahweet in November, says Rasd
Rasd said the violations "varied including kidnappings, forced displacements, child recruitments, looting of properties, persecutions, crackdowns, occupation of state institutions and set up checkpoints" for arbitrary arrests.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13553
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#Houthis silenced all media. There is only 1 TV channel operational in "Today's Channel", that only broadcasts pro Iranian houthi propaganda, Houthis are ruling #Yemen by force, their grip is tight on a population that doesn't subscribe to them. No one dares speaks against them.
https://twitter.com/YemeniFatima/status/940030553557942272
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I can’t reveal a lot of what my family is telling me on the ground, coz that would risk their lives. People are being stopped on the streets in Sanaa & their phones searched & their last calls and social media checked. I can’t even use my privilege of being outside the country.
https://twitter.com/Afrahnasser/status/939570157940363264
and
all that only hearsay. I am in Sanaa and nothing of what you have said. verify of your sources!
https://twitter.com/SuchFacts/status/939712835222999040
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[Houthi Almasrah TV shows the aftermath of Sanaa streetfighting, text:]
Attacks by treason militias on the homes of citizens in Sana'a 10-12-2017
Attacks by treason and treachery on the homes of citizens in the area of Hadda in the capital Sanaa to serve the US-Saudi aggression and the dismantling of the home front
https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939955425075609600
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President meets sheikhs, dignitaries of Mahweet province
The meeting reviewed the situation in Mahweet province and its needs in terms of the services and projects, especially in the current conditions under the continuation of the aggression and blockade, which left catastrophic effects on citizens’ life.
President al-Samad pointed in the meeting to the sedition that took place in Sana’a, which was ended by the cooperation of all with the state’s apparatus.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481397.htm and film https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939959346204569600
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President, FM reviews national, international developments
President of the Supreme Political Council Saleh al-Samad met here on Sunday with Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf.
In the meeting, they reviewed the developments on the national and international arenas in light of the continuation of the aggression and unjust blockade on Yemen.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481416.htm
My comment: Thus, Sharaf seems not be under house arrest as reported earlier.
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Al-Houthi Militias Launches Inspection Campaign on Saleh’s In-Laws Homes
Al-Houthi militias broke into the house of Roqaia Al-Hajary, director of Al-Rahma Orphanage for girls, kidnapped her son, Younes, and robbed the house including her personal jewelry.
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Yemen: Local Press Headlines:
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13507
My comment: Form Islah Party media (Al-Sahwa) and thus biased, but often there is no other information.
And more from the same source:
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Houthis executed large numbers of GPC party members: Reports
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13508
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Houthi women militants storm Sana'a houses, abuse women, men
A senior GPC member Fayeka Assayed tweeted that "the Battalions of Zaynabiyat [named after prophet Mohammed's daughter] are now storming the houses of Sana'a, searching women, taking men and children as hostages and executing some of them."
"All GPC members are now under house arrest," she said.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13523
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Houthi militias execute GPC parliamentarian
On Friday, the group shot dead Mohammed al-Omaysi a parliamentarian from Khawokha district in Hodeidah. Al-Omaysi is a member of the former ruling party of the former President Ali Saleh who was slain early this month after announcing his support for the government against the Shiit Islamist rebels.
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13524
Remark: “government” = Hadi government.
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Houthis kill over 30 GPC members, detonate 20 houses in a week
The Houthis have killed more than 30 members of the General People's Congress (GPC) and detonated the houses of 20 members of the party in the northern province of Hajjah last week
a collateral damage to 106 adjacent houses. The detonated houses belong to, among many, the following persons:
https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13526
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Because of Conflicts, Hundreds of Families Flee from the Northern Territories to the Arab South Governorates
hotels and rent houses were overcrowded in Adan, Abian and Hadhramaut
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#Yemen capital Sanaa: New Finance Ministry decree, it appears – Companies must pay the Central Bank billions of riyals in taxes,etc only in cash, from now on. No checks accepted.
https://twitter.com/BaFana3/status/939631702464397318
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President, PM discuss current situation on national scene
President of the Supreme Political Council Saleh Al-Samad met on Saturday with Prime Minister Dr. Abdulaziz Saleh bin Habtoor.
The meeting discussed the current situation on the national scene in light of the continuation of the Saudi-led aggression and blockade and the massacres and crimes committed against the Yemeni people in various governorates.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481319.htm
My comment: They already had met a few days ago. Here, no word of what is happening at Sanaa in the moment, and that 18 ministers of this government should be arrested or under house arrest, as for instance the Foreign Minister.
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Yemen's Saleh buried in Sanaa with handful of relatives present: sources
Yemen’s Houthi group has buried the body of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, allowing only a handful of relatives to attend, sources from his General People’s Congress (GPC) party said on Sunday.
A GPC source, who has asked not to be identified, said the Houthis allowed less than 10 people from Saleh’s relatives to attend the night-time burial in the capital Sanaa, but gave no details on the exact location.
GPC Secretary-General Aref al-Zouka, who was killed with Saleh, was buried on Saturday in his native al-Saeed district of Shabwa province in southern Yemen after the Houthis handed over his body to tribal leaders, media and GPC officials said.
Relatives said on Thursday that Saleh’s family had refused conditions demanded by the Houthis for handing over the body. Some said they wanted to bury the body in the courtyard of a mosque he had built near the presidential compound in southern Sanaa.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-saleh/yemens-saleh-buried-in-sanaa-with-handful-of-relatives-present-sources-idUSKBN1E40E8 and also http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5162873/Yemen-rebels-bury-Saleh-closed-funeral-family-source.html
and more
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Body of Yemen's slain ex-president Saleh buried in Sanaa
The official said Saleh's corpse was first handed over to the Parliament Speaker Yahya al-Raiee amid limited attendance from Saleh's supporters and Parliament members.
Then, the official said, the corpse was buried.
The official refused to reveal the location where Saleh was buried, but he said "Saleh's tomb is in Sanaa."
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2017-12/10/content_50096087.htm
My comment: That’s at least a sign that Raiee not yet has been arrested by the Houthis. I think a great part of parliament members had not been that lucky.
And
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sources affirmed that the commander of the attack force that assassinated Saleh in his house supervised the burial personally without any ceremonies. Sources added that a few number of the Public Conference Party loyal to Al-Houthi militias attended the burial.
http://en.smanews.org/al-houthi-militias-bury-saleh-in-senhan-his-birth-place
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Yemen: Sanaa residents unfurl huge Palestinian flag at rally for Jerusalem
Hundreds of people rallied in Sanaa, Friday, to demonstrate against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvUY-fu7M54
My comment: Houthi rally, look at Houthi slogans.
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An indicator of things being very bad in #Sanaa #Yemen: When people feel they have to flee, cannot return or are even more scared than many already were to speak.
https://twitter.com/K_Beckerle/status/939225378584965120
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Houthi militias continue to carry out mass executions against GPC supporters (photo)
https://twitter.com/yossif181/status/939226897166290945
(A P)
Sanaa cannot mourn its president for 33 years. Everyone who posts a portrait of the late Saleh gets arrested by Houthis. Pure terror.
https://twitter.com/ammar82/status/939341658231115776
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Manger of Houthi Sam Radio calls for the killing of men and women who go against them, calling them hypocrites, traitors, infidels, and even comparing the women who are against them to Noah and Lut’s wives.
https://twitter.com/HopeOfYemen/status/938818960480505857 and also https://www.alsahwa-yemen.net/en/p-13525
referring to https://twitter.com/maldhabyani/status/938805380691517441 and this is the audio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yObBNAb3KBc
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Saleh's lawyer: "I'm not a traitor, I was told that military vehicles came looking for me, and many demanding my death. I've become a fugitive with nowhere to go, and many are like me."
https://twitter.com/ammar82/status/939053591335186432
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Schools are deserted in Sanaa as a result of the recent escalation of hostilities and street fightings (film; from dec. 6)
https://twitter.com/alasaadim/status/938477605719769090
cp6 Südjemen und Hadi-Regierung / Southern Yemen and Hadi-government
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UAE-backed south Yemen forces ally with President Hadi
The Vice President of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has expressed support for President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in a social media post yesterday.
Hani Bin Brek wrote on Twitter that the STC is keen on supporting Hadi, but there has been no clear confirmation by the organisation’s President, General Aidarous Al-Zubaidi.
Tribes surrounding Sana’a, including the STC, remained silent following the death of Saleh. Reports today have emerged that the STC forces are assisting Saleh’s army alongside President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s national army to recapture the ports of Hudaydah from the Houthis.
The leader of the resistance force Tihama, located on the western coast of Yemen told Hadi that he is ready to form an alliance with the national army. One week on from the killing of Saleh, alliances have now shifted against the Houthi group.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171211-uae-backed-south-yemen-forces-ally-with-president-hadi/
(A P)
Ben Farid to Ben Doghr: Establish Camps for Them to Defend Their Honor Against Al-Houthi Instead of Pushing Southern People to Fight on Behalf of Them
A wave of angry reactions raised in the south in response to orders of Ahmed Ben Doghr, prime minister of the legitimacy government, to host leaders of the Public Conference Party in Adan.
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South Yemen Will Regain Independence If It Follows These Six Steps
Independence is once again attainable for South Yemen so long as prospective peace talks result in a coalition-enforced “buffer zone” with North Yemen and a “federal” transitional period that precedes an internationally recognized (re-)independence vote, and the restored country could avoid becoming a UAE satellite if it grants a third-party such as Pakistan a naval base in Aden as a friendly means of “balancing” out its patron’s potentially overbearing influence, which in this case could also serve the dual purpose of facilitating the south Arabian state’s integration into the New Silk Road – by Andrew KORYBKO
https://orientalreview.org/2017/12/08/south-yemen-will-regain-independence-follows-six-steps/
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Saudi-backed forces delivered military vehicles and equipment to al Ghaydah city, al Mahrah governorate, eastern Yemen on December 7. The Saudi-led coalition began efforts to counter smuggling through eastern Yemen in mid-November.[3]
https://www.criticalthreats.org/briefs/gulf-of-aden-security-review/gulf-of-aden-security-review-december-8-2017 and https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/939058412368773125
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants fired a 82mm mortar at Emirati-backed al Hizam Security Forces in Mahfad district, Abyan governorate, southern Yemen on December 7. AQAP frames its attacks against Emirati-backed forces as in reprisal for transgressions against the local population.[4]
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Yemen PM calls for amnesty for remaining Saleh loyalists
Forces loyal to President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi were instructed to receive members from the General People’s Congress party who are fleeing the Houthi crackdown yesterday, Saba Newsreported.
“The Houthi militia has embarked on brutal atrocities against many senior figures and members of the General People’s Congress. As a result many of them have to flee their own areas in the provinces under the militia’s control,” Ahmed Obeid Bin Dagher, prime minister said.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171208-yemen-pm-calls-for-amnesty-for-remaining-saleh-loyalists/
cp7 UNO und Friedensgespräche / UN and peace talks
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Statement by the Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, Calling on Parties to Facilitate Unimpeded Aid Delivery
The violence that engulfed Sana’a city over the last weeks has subsided, but the suffering continues. Famine still threatens millions; preventable diseases continually strike a weakened population in all parts of Yemen. The continuing blockade of ports, is limiting supplies of fuel, food and medicines; dramatically increasing the number of vulnerable people who need help.
The priority for humanitarian organisations is to resume life-saving operations that were scaled back because of insecurity.
The parties to the conflict have an obligation to fully facilitate sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access.
As fighting intensifies along the western coast and other parts of Yemen, I am greatly alarmed at reports of hospitals being damaged, populations being impeded from fleeing to safe areas and killings and arbitrary detentions reportedly being carried out in Sana’a. Renewed violence will only lead to further devastation.
(A P)
Foreign Minister participates in consultative meeting of international quartet on Yemen
Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir participated in the consultative meeting of the International Quartet Committee on Yemen, held in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.
The meeting included the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
http://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1696823
and
(A P)
UAE, Saudi Arabia, UK, US back political process in Yemen
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2668553&Language=en and also http://gulftoday.ae/portal/d5a9cf4b-e7d6-4a72-beac-a60165b0c72d.aspx
My comment: Western media report as if these meetings would be meetings of peace brokers – while they are just meetings of the representatives of the most important direct and indirect foreign warring parties of the Yemen war.
(A P)
UNO-Generalsekretär fordert Ende des „dummen Krieges“ im Jemen
UNO-Generalsekretär Antonio Guterres hat in ungewöhnlich scharfen Worten erneut ein Ende des Krieges im Jemen gefordert. „Ich halte dies für einen dummen Krieg“, sagte Guterres am Sonntag dem Nachrichtensender CNN. Der Krieg sei „nicht im Interesse Saudi-Arabiens, der Emirate und der Menschen im Jemen“. Nötig sei eine politische Lösung.
Guterres zeigte sich hoffnungsvoll, dass die USA weiter Druck auf Saudi-Arabien ausüben könnten, die humanitäre Krise im Jemen zu mildern.
(A P)
Guterres calls for new push to stop the 'stupid war' in Yemen
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Sunday for a renewed push to end the "stupid war" in Yemen, saying he hoped the Trump administration could pressure Saudi Arabia to ease the humanitarian crisis there.
"I believe this is a stupid war. I think this war is against the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates... (and) of the people of Yemen," he said on CNN, employing unusually blunt language for the top UN diplomat.
"What we need is a political solution."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-5165189/Guterres-calls-new-push-stop-stupid-war-Yemen.html and film, interview: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/12/08/exp-gps-un-guterres-sot-web-extra-yemen-crisis.cnn
Comment: The UN is powerless because USA and U.K. are supporting the war and only give lip service to lifting the blockade.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10156193822148641
cp7a Saudi-Arabien und Iran / Saudi Arabia and Iran
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Iran offen für Verbesserung der Beziehungen zu Saudi-Arabien
Trotz der politischen Differenzen ist der Iran nach Angaben von Präsident Hassan Rouhani immer noch offen für die Verbesserung der Beziehungen mit dem regionalen Erzrivalen Saudi-Arabien. "Wir könnten schon ab morgen die Beziehungen wieder aufnehmen", sagte Rouhani am Sonntag im iranischen Parlament. Riad sollte aber laut Rouhani den ersten Schritt machen und auf den Iran zukommen.
http://www.vol.at/iran-offen-fuer-verbesserung-der-beziehungen-zu-saudi-arabien/5585240
(A P)
Iran Wants S. Arabia to Halt Yemen Attacks, Israel Ties before Resuming Relations
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would resume ties with Saudi Arabia only after the Arab country halts military strikes against Yemen and cut off relations and obedience to Israel.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960919000654 and also http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/rouhani-ready-restore-ties-saudi-arabia-171210084010955.html and by Deutsche Welle: http://www.dw.com/en/irans-president-signals-good-ties-possible-with-saudi-arabia/a-41731832
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Iranian-Saudi Trade Via Intermediaries
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Here's How Both Barack Obama And Donald Trump Stoked The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
This conflict has been escalating since the start of the Arab uprisings in 2011 and is driven by a combustible blend of geopolitical competition, religious sectarianism, and nationalism.
In most of these instances Iran-Saudi competition was not the initial spark that lit the fire. But by again and again choosing sides, taking a hard line, and providing money, weapons, political support, and sometimes intervening directly with their militaries, Saudi-Iranian competition has acted as the gasoline causing these conflicts to explode.
Trump's approach, like Obama's, is causing both sides to get more aggressive. The Saudis are now overconfident instead of insecure. The Iranians see Trump as impossible to deal with and confrontation with the United States and Saudi Arabia as the only option.
The end result has been that in the past seven years nearly every major conflict in the Middle East has had some flavor of Iranian-Saudi competition.
cp8 Saudi-Arabien / Saudi Arabia
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Ab 2018 wieder Kinos in Saudi-Arabien erlaubt
Die ersten Lichtspielhäuser dürften im März ihren Betrieb aufnehmen, teilte die Regierung am Montag mit. Bis 2030 werde mit 300 Kinos gerechnet.
https://www.onvista.de/news/ab-2018-wieder-kinos-in-saudi-arabien-erlaubt-82188925
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Saudi Arabia says cinemas will be allowed from early 2018
Saudi Arabia said on Monday that public cinemas would be allowed in the conservative kingdom for the first time in over 35 years, and that the first ones were likely to open next March.
Cinemas were banned in the early 1980s under pressure from Islamists
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Mohammad Bin Salman’s Ambitious Moves: Order or Disorder in Saudi Arabia?
As his sudden rise in the line of the throne, MBS is ambitiously moving, at times without taking into account the risk calculus, to make the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia a regional power player in the Arab World, reducing the regional influence of Iran and grabbing a major chunk of power in the kingdom. Simultaneously carrying out Anti-Shia (Anti Iran) drive and economic blockade/political isolation of Qatar on external front and consolidation of absolute power in the kingdom, which has a long legacy of carefully calibrated power-sharing within the royal family, can prove to be a very risky affair if it backfires – by Khurram Shahzad Siddiqui
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Nearly 160,000 violators arrested across Saudi Arabia
Nearly 160,000 violators of residence, work and border security systems have been arrested in a nationwide round-up, the General Directorate of Public Security said on Friday.
The joint security field campaign was launched in early November to track down and arrest offenders.
According to the police, most of the crimes in the Kingdom are committed by illegal residents who have overstayed their visas.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1206236/saudi-arabia
My comment: This sounds like an assault against foreign workers in KSA.
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Saudi Arabia: We call on US to reverse its decision on Jerusalem
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has hailed the international consensus rejecting US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the US embassy from Tel Aviv.
Speaking at an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo on Saturday night, Jubeir called on the US administration to reverse its decision on Jerusalem and to take international action to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their legitimate rights.
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Saudi Arabia pushes Palestinians to consider nascent U.S. peace plan
Saudi Arabia pulled no punches when it condemned President Donald Trump’s move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But Palestinian officials say Riyadh has also been working for weeks behind the scenes to press them to support a nascent U.S. peace plan.
My comment: After the Jerusalem decision, any US “peace plan” is a scam.
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Saudi Aramco plans for a life after oil
The IPO is likely to be the biggest in history, but what will investors be buying?
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Rising from the desert like a metallic oasis, the Sadara chemicals plant in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province is a labyrinth of pipes, tanks and furnaces covering an area three times the size of Monaco and made with enough steel to build the Golden Gate bridge twice. The $20bn project, completed in September, is the largest chemicals facility constructed in a single phase anywhere in the world. It stands as a powerful statement of intent by Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, to adapt to a changing energy environment and as a symbol of what a reformed Saudi economy could look like.
https://www.ft.com/content/e46162ca-d9a6-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482
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Saudi Arabia pushes for stricter rules on under-18 marriage
The consent of the girl and her mother and the approval of the court are among the requirements in case of an under-18 marriage, according to a recent recommendation by an ad-hoc inter-ministerial committee set up to look into the marriage of minors in Saudi Arabia.
The committee said that the age of majority is 18 and all marriage contracts below that age must fulfill a list of requirements
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The Arctic Threat to Saudi Arabia’s Grand Oil Bargain: Gadfly
When Saudi Arabia’s oil minister attended Friday’s grand opening of a giant liquefied natural gas plant in northern Siberia, he’d have known this was just part of a bigger energy story developing in Russia’s icy north. It’s not just gas that’s a big deal there. Russia’s Arctic oil flows are soaring too.
and
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Russia offers to sell gas to Saudi Arabia from Yamal LNG
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A complete guide to the most sensational Saudi princes
Here are the most sensational members of the House of Saud.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/09/a-complete-guide-to-the-most-sensational-saudi-princes/
My comment: Well, MBS is labeled as “The reformer” rather than “The War Criminal”.
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Saudi Foreign Minister al-Jubeir fired and replaced by Khaled bin Salman: Sources
Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir was reportedly fired on Friday and replaced by Khaled bin Salman, the crown prince’s younger brother, according to sources cited by several media outlets, including Al-Masdar News.
Remark: Unconfirmed. Wait and see. Saudi Arabia is a family enterprise, not a real state.
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Saudi Arabia’s US Embassy Chimes In on the Fate of Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’
Regardless of who bought it, the $450 million painting is definitely heading to the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
The question of who actually bought the work—and for whom—has played out in multiple languages in international newspapers and on Twitter over the past few days. Indeed, the way that this major piece of news has unfolded as a bizarre series of leaks, denials, rumors, and counter-rumors has become its own narrative.
The embassy’s statement that Prince Bader was an intermediary in the TDIC’s purchase is consistent with a statement that Prince Bader himself released on Wednesday.
https://news.artnet.com/market/saudi-arabias-us-embassy-chimes-salvator-mundi-question-1175237
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Saudi Arabia’s Leader Spent $450 Million On A Painting. Here’s What That Could Do For Victims Of His War In Yemen.
20.7 million people need some kind of aid in Yemen. Those dollars could feed them all for more than a month.
Above all, it throws into stark relief the way the oil-rich monarchy continues to spend on luxuries while it pummels neighboring Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/saudi-yemen-mbs-painting-aid_us_5a2999c2e4b0b185e53a3ce8?v5i
My comment: Of course. But think, Saudi Arabia spends US $ 200 A DAY for its bombing war against Yemen. What about $ 450 million then? Better let the Prince by more paintings and no more bombs etc. instead.
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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince launches institute to promote art in the Middle East
Recently identified buyer of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi is planning a pavilion at the Venice Biennale, art teaching in schools, international exhibitions, archaeology and virtual reality
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/saudi-arabia-s-crown-prince-adds-art-and-culture-to-his-portfolio
My comment: LOL. How the prince’s strange buy is used for pro-Crown Prince propaganda. Below, more of this kind.
And
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Louvre Abu Dhabi is looking forward to displaying the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo Da Vinci. The work was acquired by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi for the museum.
https://twitter.com/LouvreAbuDhabi/status/939131731864702976 and https://www.wsj.com/articles/da-vincis-salvator-mundi-is-likely-a-gift-from-saudi-arabia-to-the-u-a-e-1512772616
The Louvre Abu Dhabi refused to say whether they made the $450 million bid or if someone gave the Department of Culture and Tourism the painting when asked by the @AP.
https://twitter.com/jongambrellAP/status/939164632308224000
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KSA finds its funny bone with stand-up comedy
Saudis took the stage one by one to poke fun at the world - and themselves - introducing a hissing, cackling audience to an art form widely unknown in the conservative kingdom: stand-up comedy.
http://nation.com.pk/09-Dec-2017/ksa-finds-its-funny-bone-with-stand-up-comedy
My comment: Painting a soft picture again.
And
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Saudi Arabia hosts first all-women music concert by Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji
Tickets for the show had sold out days before the final day of Hiba Tawaji's performance. According to reports, women from all across the kingdom had come in big groups to attend the show and many were there on their own.
Sans a headscarf, Tawaji, wearing a black shimmery Ellie Saab gown, was elated to see the turnout and was overjoyed seeing how excited the crowd was. “After one of my songs, I yelled ‘girl power.’ I felt honoured to be one of the first females to sing in a public concert in Saudi Arabia,” she told the Arab News.
My comment: This concert got a lot of reporting in western media, for instance: http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/culture/news/a40411/saudi-arabia-first-ever-concert-female-performer/ . And even by Russian:
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Saudi Arabia Hosts Its First-Ever All-Female Concert (VIDEO)
Saudi Arabia, known for its extremely conservative views, has always hosted only all-male concerts. However, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is challenging tradition, and in so doing, opening up the world of entertainment to women.
and a large report by Saudi media:#
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A magical performance by Lebanese singer Hiba Tawaji wows Riyadh audience (with films)
But of course, women just are allowed to sing for women, and men form en:
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Saudi Arabia: US and Algerian singers to perform male-only concert
US rapper Nelly and Algerian singer Cheb Khaled are set to perform a concert together in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 14 December 2017 to an only male audience, a move that has been welcomed by many, but criticised by others, including some women, reported BBC and Associated Press.
Conservatives have criticised the move to bring Nelly over concerns of decency as he was arrested in 2015 for drug possession and was recently accused of sexual assault while on tour – a charge that has since been dropped.
https://freemuse.org/news/saudi-arabia-us-algerian-singers-perform-male-concert/
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Shakespeare in Riyadh 2017, “Princes in the Tower”: Osama’s Brother Bakr bin Laden among those Arrested By Crown Prince MBS
So the global media system that always bothers us so much for any minimal and resignable human rights violation issue in countries such as Russia and China, exploitingly, I argue, here seems to show off a superior Olympic stiff upper lips indifference to these “poor” billionaires, unjustly and arbitrarily arrested, and who, perhaps, one might suppose, also subjected to mistreatments and, who knows it, perhaps even tortures.
Then, above all, I do not understand the silent silence of the Western Chancelleries and of the United Nations in this respect.
My suspicion, anyway, is that, beyond any formal and ideal motivation, like war on terror, Mohammed Bin Salman in facts wants to realize the imperialist project of a Greater Sunni Arabia. As well as it wants to erase the Shiite Islamicism anywhere and mainly where it is a majority as in nations like Yemen and, above all, Iran – by Claudio Resta
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West African Force Secures Saudi Arabian Backing to Fight Jihadist Threats
Saudi Arabia said to provide $100 million after Macron visit
Five West African nations -- Niger, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania -- agreed this year to deploy a 5,000-strong regional force to fight militants linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State in the Sahel.
The main area of operation will be the border area of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
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How Saudi Arabia plans to rebuild area coined ‘Gates of Hell’ into a thriving province
It was just a couple of months ago that archeologists revealed their findings of ancient stone gates in a deserted area of Saudi Arabia. The region, which has been nicknamed the “Gates of Hell” due to its proximity to lava domes and volcanic fields.
According to reports out of Saudi Arabia, the prince plans to incorporate the discoveries into his vision for a rejuvenated province. Whether that means using the existing gates as the floor plan for new construction, or simply preserving the archeological evidence while building nearby remains to be seen.
http://bgr.com/2017/12/05/gates-of-hell-new-province-saudi-arabia/
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London Firms To Visit Saudi Arabia As Battle For Aramco Listing Continues
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Bin Salman seeking to appeal to west as reformist
Leading female scholars from Saudi Arabia have described moves to ease restrictions on women as government spin aimed at an international audience to bolster support for efforts to liberalize its ailing economy.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking to appeal to western governments as a reformist while cracking down on the very women inside the country who have been campaigning for an end to systematic discrimination, they say.
Hala Aldosari, a prominent Saudi woman academic in the United States, said: "The government is trying to portray itself as reformist by tackling certain things that are visible to their outside patrons.
"But they are trying to pick and choose those kinds of reforms that they know will make a high impact on the international media and their allies, while at the same time silencing anyone within Saudi Arabia for demanding those reforms."
http://en.abna24.com/news/middle-east/bin-salman-seeking-to-appeal-to-west-as-reformist_870569.html
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Prince Mohammed bin Salman tightens grip on dissent in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s radical crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has won worldwide attention for the reforms he announced this year, culminating in allowing women to drive. Saudi human rights activists, however, say that his changes have been accompanied by arrests not only of the regime’s opponents but also of potential supporters who criticised some aspects of its policy.
“It is clear that the new leadership under Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is determined to crush the space for freedom of expression“
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Saudi prince Mutaib 'paid $10 billion' to be released from Ritz-Carlton 'prison'
A Saudi prince who became the first to be released from Mohammed bin Salman’s purge paid a settlement of $10 billion, sources told The New Arab.
Prince Mutaib al-Saud, the son of the late king Abdullah and former minister of the National Guard, was released on Tuesday.
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2017/11/29/saudi-prince-paid-10bn-to-be-released-from-ritz-carlton?utm_campaign=sf&utm = https://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-prince-mutaib-paid-10-billion-to-be-released-from-ritz-carlton-prison/5621045
My comment: This will sum up. Then it’s possible to buy more Leonardos or more bombs for Yemen.
cp9 USA
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Pens for hire? Dictators and their dupes
Authoritarians and aspiring dictators around the world are increasingly able to make their case to the American people through witting and unwitting agents of influence. In a matter of days, the scion of dispassionate chin-stroking on the New York Times editorial page (yes, Tom Friedman) has turned from questioning the spending patterns of Mohammed bin Salman.
The problem of authoritarian influence. The problem is that the opinions of unelected media influencers are apparently up for grabs to high bidders, and they are rarely called on it. Ditto, financiers seem to be on the market, ready to spill ink in favor of the dictator of the moment in exchange for favors by Clay R. Fuller
https://www.aei.org/publication/pens-for-hire-dictators-and-their-dupes/ = http://www.newsweek.com/apologists-tom-friedman-are-doing-dictators-dirty-work-727119
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YEMEN: Will Saleh’s Death Precipitate US Direct Military Action in a War They Orchestrated?
Don’t be fooled by Trump’s recent posturing demanding the Saudi blockade of Yemen be lifted. The death of Ali Abdullah Saleh has neocons eyeing direct US intervention in war-torn Yemen.
For months, the US plan in Yemen has been to split the late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh from the al Houthi movement. From there, the US and their Gulf allies could re-engage Saleh’s party, the General Peoples Congress (GPC), with political negotiations and an upper hand.
Obviously, things didn’t quite work out as planned.
The neoconservative thinktank, American Enterprise Institute (which was very influential during the Bush era) believes the US needs to take a direct role in Yemen now that Saleh is out of the picture.
Although the article goes on to state that a political solution must be reached, I think everyone knows what AEI means by a direct US role in Yemen. As always, that implies military force and occupation.
But with Saleh gone, will the US enter Yemen with full force? Or simply keep supporting UAE troops and mercenaries? Probably the latter. Because sending US troops to fight Ansarullah would be a foolish, foolish mistake – by Randi Nord
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Jenseits der Diplomatie
Trumps Schwiegersohn und Berater Jared Kushner scheint der Auffassung zu sein, er könne den gesamten Nahen Osten neu gestalten – mit möglicherweise verheerenden Folgen
Während das Chaos jedem zufälligen Beobachter klar vor Augen treten sollte, ist die Rolle, die Jared Kusher in diesem Chaos spielt, nicht ohne weiteres für jeden ersichtlich.
In seiner Rolle als Sonderberater des Präsidenten scheint Kushner zu der Ansicht gelangt zu sein, er könne den gesamten Nahen Osten neugestalten. Zusammen mit seinem neuen besten Freund, Saudi-Arabiens Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman, stürzt er die Region weiter ins Chaos.
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/the-guardian/jenseits-der-diplomatie
and English version:
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Jared Kushner is wreaking havoc in the Middle East
In his role as the president’s special advisor, Kushner seems to have decided he can remake the entire Middle East. The results could be devastating
In his role as the president’s special advisor, Kushner seems to have decided he can remake the entire Middle East, and he is wreaking his havoc with his new best friend, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
But the Kushner-Salman alliance also represents something else. Both the US and Saudi Arabia are concentrating power into fewer and fewer hands. And with fewer people in the room, who will be around to tell these men that their ideas are so damaging? Who will dare explain to them how they already have failed? – by Moustafa Bayoumi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/09/jared-kushner-wreaking-havoc-middle-east
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Jemen-Krise: USA machen Druck auf Saudi-Arabien
Nach Jahren der Kriegswirren ist die humanitäre Lage im Jemen katastrophal. Millionen Menschen dort hungern. Die USA machen nun Druck auf Saudi-Arabien, das in den Konflikt involviert ist.
In US-Regierungskreisen heißt es, wegen des wachsenden Unmuts im Kongress über das Vorgehen Riads in der Jemen-Krise könnte die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Königreich leiden. Die saudische Regierung müsse mehr für die Versorgung der Menschen im Jemen tun
http://www.dw.com/de/jemen-krise-usa-machen-druck-auf-saudi-arabien/a-41721453
Mein Kommentar: Druck? Bisher nur ein „Drückchen“. Siehe auf Englisch, hier und cp2a.
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Signs of US-Saudi rift after rare state department criticism of Mohammed bin Salman's foreign policy
US State Department chief Rex Tillerson has offered some mild, but rare, criticism of Saudi Arabia's foreign policy which has been driven by the young Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Tillerson singled out the Saudi-led war on Yemen, its blockade on Gulf neighbour Qatar, and Riyadh's alleged coercion of Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri for mild - but rare - criticism on Friday.
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Tougher U.S. Tone Toward Saudi Arabia Exposes Rift on Key Ally
Trump calls out Saudi leaders over blockade of Yemen
Growing sense of alarm at State Department over Saudi actions
"We’ve seen these things over the past few weeks where there was a sense that the Saudis, inadvertently or because of a lack of experience, have wrong-footed us in ways that were detrimental to our interests and to regional stability,” said Gerald Feierstein, a former deputy assistant secretary of state and now a resident expert at the Middle East Institute in Washington.
“Clearly there needs to be some kind of more open and transparent communication between Washington and Riyadh so that we’re not caught by surprise,” Feierstein said.
My comment: Wait and see whether this really is more than a scam. Feierstein is not very credible at all: http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/middle-east-institute-gerald-feierstein-uae-saudi-yemen.
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Statement by the Press Secretary Regarding the Violence and Humanitarian Conditions in Yemen
The United States is gravely concerned by the recent escalation in violence and continued dire humanitarian conditions in Yemen. We urge all parties to immediately cease hostilities, reenergize political talks, and end the suffering of the Yemeni people.
My comment: Clearly anti-Iranian, using the own US propaganda narrative. Thus, it constructs an Iranian guilt, while:
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White House statement on Yemen violence overlooks US complicity
The US, however, has played a central role in the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
While the statement did not address the Washington’s role in the ongoing devastation in Yemen, it did call on Riyadh to lift its siege on Yemen’s ports.
https://www.rt.com/usa/412531-yemen-white-house-complicity/
While Saudi propaganda reports, omitting anything critical to Saudi Arabia: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1107981/us-calls-ending-%E2%80%98brutal-repression%E2%80%99-iranian-backed-militias-yemen
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In push for Yemen aid, U.S. warned Saudis of threats in Congress
The United States has warned Saudi Arabia that concern in Congress over the humanitarian situation in Yemen could constrain U.S. assistance, as it pushed Riyadh to allow greater access for humanitarian aid, a U.S. official said on Friday.
“I think there has just been mounting concern over the continued humanitarian conditions in Yemen, and while we have seen progress, we haven’t seen enough,” said a senior Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“We want to see more in the coming weeks.”
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US urges Saudis to show caution in regional disputes
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Saudi Arabia to take a more cautious approach to regional conflicts Friday amid growing concern over Riyadh's involvement in Yemen, Qatar and Lebanon.
"I think with respect to Saudi Arabia's engagement with Qatar, how they're handling the Yemen war that they're engaged in and the Lebanon situation I think we would encourage them to be bit more measured, a bit more thoughtful in those actions to, I think, fully consider the consequences," Tillerson said.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/us-urges-saudis-to-show-caution-in-regional-disputes/article/509505 and also http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/tillerson-saudis-measured-yemen-action-171208151146607.html
My comment: “"I think with respect”?????????????
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'Prayer Has the Ability to Do Things We Cannot Imagine': Robert Schuller Says Divine Intervention Needed in Yemen
Dr. Robert Schuller from Yemen Crisis Watch told CBN News that believers must pray.
Schuller says we must pray for peace between the Sunnis and Shias.
My comment: LOL.
cp10 Großbritannien / Great Britain
Siehe / Look at cp1
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Column by South Dorset MP Richard Drax: Innocents suffer in bitter war
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Yemen war: UK Government admits it is aware of 318 cases that could violate international law
'If human rights and democracy are to mean anything in Downing Street, then May and her colleagues must end the arms sales now'
Andrew Smith of Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT), an organisation which has taken the Government to court over its arms deals with Saudi Arabia, told The Independent: “That is 318 incidents too many. These aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet, they are real attacks with real people being killed.
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Jeremy Corbyn speech at the United Nations’ Geneva headquarters
Too many have turned a wilfully blind eye to the flagrant and large-scale human rights abuses now taking place in Yemen, fuelled by arms sales to Saudi Arabia worth billions of pounds.
The see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil approach undermines our credibility and ability to act over other human rights abuses.
Total British government aid to Yemen last year was under £150 million - less than the profits made by British arms companies selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. What does that say about our country’s priorities, or our government’s role in the humanitarian disaster now gripping Yemen?
http://press.labour.org.uk/post/168322341969/jeremy-corbyn-speech-at-the-united-nations-geneva and also, with sppech in film https://enemyinastate.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/watch-todays-inspiring-corbyn-un-speech-about-grotesque-levels-of-wealth-inequality-the-climate-crisis-imperial-war-mays-attack-on-human-rights-much-more-ignored-by-msm-so-watch-i/
cp11 Deutschland / Germany
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Yemen values Germany's increasing support to € 165 million
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulmalik al-Mikhlafi has valued increasing German support to Yemen from € 125 to 165 million. This support is assigned for humanitarian field.
In his meeting with German Ambassador to Yemen Hansjörg Haber on Monday, al-Mikhlafi discussed with him latest developments in Yemen and the bloody scene in the Capital Sanaa.
http://www.sabanew.net/viewstory.php?id=26140
cp12 Andere Länder / Other countries
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[Pakistan] Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has termed the decision of not participating in Yemen conflict as a wise one. “After a long time, we took such a wise foreign policy decision”, he said
https://pakobserver.net/fm-terms-non-participation-yemens-conflict-wise-decision/
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Egyptian FM: sending Egyptian forces to Yemen is no option
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry talked in an interview with Russia Today on Sunday about the crisis in Yemen, anti-terror efforts, as well as the Palestinian issue and the status of Jerusalem in light of the inability to reach a political settlement.
Shoukry stressed that sending Egyptian Military Forces to Yemen is not an option for the Egyptian Administration.
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/36382/Egyptian-FM-sending-Egyptian-forces-to-Yemen-is-no-option
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Statement of the Spokesperson on the situation in Yemen
The European Union urges that Ansar Allah immediately stops all the reported violations of basic human rights and act respectfully towards all sectors of Yemeni society. It calls on all the internal and international stakeholders who have an influence in this conflict to increase efforts towards a political solution of this protracted crisis. The European Union is ready to pledge its support to any constructive negotiating track with the objective of bringing the long suffering of the Yemeni people to an end”
My comment: The EU statement is hypocritical, as the EU arms exports and EU politics jas helped to prolong the war – which lead to the situation as it is now.
Comment: EU statement on the increasing warfare inside Yemen. In truth all sides are behaving abysmally and with no concern for ordinary Yemeni citizens. This war needs to end.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.brown.794628/posts/10156192558573641
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Greens warn about Australia’s joint exercise with Saudi navy near Yemen
Whish-Wilson says operation was planned rather than occurring ‘opportunistically’ as Marise Payne has described
A controversial Australian naval exercise conducted with Saudi Arabia’s navy in the midst of the blockade of Yemen may be the beginning of more joint exercises between the two militaries, the Greens have warned.
cp13a Waffenhandel / Arms trade
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Les EAU utilisent des chars français dans leur invasion du Yemen
Voici un signe de plus de la collaboration étroite entre les Emirats Arabe Unis et la France dans la destruction du Yemen. Des photos montrent des chars Leclercs utilisés sur les champs de bataille contre les Houthis au Yemen.
referring to
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Photos / Film: UAE army heading offensive against Houthis in Western coast of Yemen. Tanks Leclerc, 155mm SPH G6, Agrab mortars, Patria AMV
https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/939566687560568832
https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/939567415721111552
https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/939571033576759296
Remark: French arms used by UAE in the war in Yemen. Patria AMV is from Finland.
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In one year, #Boeing have delivered 30 F-15SA Advanced Eagles to the Royal #Saudi Air Force (2 of which were rebuilds). Already involved in the ongoing ops and scheduled for the future Red Flag exercise. (photos)
https://twitter.com/MbKS15/status/939236504416776194
cp13b Wirtschaft / Economy
Siehe / Look at cp3
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The volatile history of oil, gas and water production in Yemen continues
The poor and unstable state is not reaping enough economic benefits from its dwindling resources
Yemen’s oil experience was not the same as its neighbours’. With very different geology, and much smaller fields even than Oman’s, it found oil later.
Oil production continues at reduced levels in relatively peaceful Marib, and may even have recovered a bit this year to around 40,000 barrels per day. After repairs to its pipeline, there are sporadic rumours of restarting the LNG plant.
But the industry is still a shadow of its past self. The Houthis may have eliminated Saleh, but the areas they control lack both the oil and water which have been critical to the country's economy.
cp14 Terrorismus / Terrorism
(A T)
#AlQaeda #Yemen leader's 4th lesson on medieval war treatise presents a stunningly simplistic worldview. He takes 8mins to tell us that if the heart is bad then everything is bad & one's project will fail, irrespective of military know-how (photo)
https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/940166544285454337
(A T)
#alQaeda #Yemen has just released "Ambassadors of Glory". Its 15 tracks include catchy numbers like "Snarl, O Gun", "Approach, O Death" & "Lions of Allah". (image)
https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall/status/939809635615363073
(A T)
Airstrikes Kill 5 al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Members in Yemen
U.S. airstrikes killed five al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in Yemen’s al-Bayda governorate Nov. 20, in an effort to disrupt the terrorist's attack networks, according to a U.S. Central Command news release issued today.
Mujahid al-Adani, an al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Shabwah leader, was killed in the strikes, along with al-Bayda-based facilitator Abu Layth al-Sanaani and three terrorist network associates, the release said.
cp15 Propaganda
(A H K P)
UAE achieving successes on west cost of Yemen: Aden ERC Team Head
The UAE is achieving successes in the west coast of Yemen, after its liberation from the Houthis militias by forces supported by the UAE Armed Forces.
It is also distributing humanitarian and relief aid to the residents of liberated regions who have suffered from the Houthis siege, after the victories of the armed forces in the complete liberation of Al Khawkhah while advancing north on the west coast.
The ERC has launched a humanitarian relief campaign to ease the suffering of families living in the west coast
http://wam.ae/en/details/1395302653510
Remark: Referring to cp1c.
(A P)
Iran regime evacuates military advisers from Yemen using Hodeidah port
Following the progress that the Yemeni army made supported by popular resistance in Hodeidah, navigational sources in the port of Hodeidah have revealed that Tehran vacated 40 military advisers from the area along with UN workers in Yemen, Al-Arabiya reported Monday.
Comment: Well, they told they were military advisers?
(A P)
Yemen FM: Hopes for peaceful solution in Yemen
adding that the Yemeni legitimate government will always be ready for reaching peace according to the three terms of reference namely the outcome of the Gulf initiative, the outcome of national dialogue, and the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/36356/Yemen-FM-Hopes-for-peaceful-solution-in-Yemen
My comment: These three premises – repeated again and again – would give the Hadi government a superior position from the very beginning – and have proofed to be main obstacles to peace since nearly 3 years.
(A P)
Has Iran given cruise missiles to Hizballah as well as Yemen’s Houthis?
The maiden operational launch of Iran’s Soumar Kh-55 cruise missile was apparently entrusted to Yemen’s Houthis against a UAE target. Has it been given to Hizballah, another Iranian proxy?
DEBKAfile’s military sources point out the neither Saudi Arabia nor UAE air defense systems are up to challenging this advanced Iranian ballistic cruise missile.
https://www.debka.com/iran-given-cruise-missiles-hizballah-well-yemens-houthis/
(A P)
Houthis do not believe in compromise or peace
The killing of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the hands of the Houthis last week should serve as a reminder of two incontrovertible truths. The first is that, at its core, the conflict in Yemen is a civil war.
The second is that, contrary to romanticized depictions that portray the Houthis as a beleaguered group of rebels seeking redress of long-standing grievances, they are in fact a brutal group of millenarian zealots who have shown complete disregard for the security and stability of Yemen and the well-being of its people.
Fortunately, their brutality has further diminished the meager support they had in Yemen to begin with. The recent successful advances by government forces supported by the Saudi-led Arab coalition against Houthi strongholds suggests that the brave people of Yemen will not allow the Houthis to turn Yemen into a vassal of Iran and Hezbollah.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1207021
My comment: And again the propaganda is telling – as a background music to the new coalition assault against Hodeida why „we cannot make peace because the enemy is not worth it“. And exactly the same story is told here:
(A P)
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince: Yemen solution will not be at expense of region’s stability
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed said on Saturday that the UAE and Arab coalition supporting legitimacy in Yemen have repeatedly stressed the importance of a political solution in the country.
He said that the solution will not be at the expense of the security and stability of the region and will not be at the expense of empowering military militias operating outside the country that pose a direct threat to the security and safety of Saudi Arabia and the region.
(A P)
Yemen after Saleh: The Leader who Died Twice
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed twice. The first time was when he announced his alliance with the Houthis and the second was when he ended it with them. He died a political death the first time and a real one the second.
A journalist close to Saleh said that the decision to kill him was not made by Abdul Malek al-Houthi, head of Iranian-backed militia, but by Tehran.
In a new Yemen and a new Sanaa, head of intelligence in the Houthi government Abou Ali al-Hakem, and head of its revolt committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, and others like them, have left the Saada caves and started to eliminate all who stand in their way.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1107966/yemen-after-saleh-leader-who-died-twice
(A P)
Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs stresses that war against coup militias aims to restore peace and security in Yemen
Yemeni Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulmalik Al-Mikhlafi has stressed that the current war in Yemen, with the support of the Arab coalition, was imposed by Houthi coup supported by Iran against the Yemeni people.
http://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1696748
My comment: „War … to restore peace“: That’s Orwellian. – the Houthis just “imposed” a civil war on the ground. The Saudis imposed an all-over ground, air and naval international war on yemen.
(A P)
What after Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president, was assassinated by the hands of Iran’s arm in Yemen. He was assassinated by the Houthis just as former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by the hands of Iran’s terrorist wing, Hezbollah, in Lebanon.
We are facing a non-civilized and inhumane project, an aggressive and privileged one to be allowed to remain, expand and maintain. Today, there is a dividing line and it is not permissible to compliment it.
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/523829/Opinion/OP-ED/What-after-Saleh
(A P)
'Manama Dialogue' Reiterates Importance of Confronting Iran, Houthis
Manama Dialogue 2017 reiterated the importance of confronting Houthis in Yemen and all the forces supporting them and destabilizing the region, namely Iran.
The 13th Manama Dialogue, which began on Friday, brought together a huge number of security and military experts and academics to discuss threats of extremism and terrorism.
My comment: What does a UK Sec. of Defense do atsuch a Saudi propaganda event??
(B P)
US Ambassador to Yemen Drops Hint About International Move Against Houthis
The US warned Houthi militias on Saturday against going too far in their brutality in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, adding that the international community would have to reconsider their actions and take the right decisions.
US Ambassador to Yemen Matthew Tueller called on Houthis to hand over their arms and to enter into serious negotiations to end the conflict with all political parties in Yemen, based on the UN framework that respects the Gulf Cooperation Council's initiative, outcomes of the national dialogue, and the United Nations resolutions.
My comment: The US is a warring party in Yemen. “the international community”is Western propaganda wording and in reality just meand the US and vassals and allies. – “called on Houthis to hand over their arms”simply would not be peace bur surrender. That’s the Western and Saudi propaganda scam, since nearly 3 years now. And thus, war will go on. – “based on the UN framework that respects the Gulf Cooperation Council's initiative, outcomes of the national dialogue, and the United Nations resolutions.”This framework is fully biased and thus it is an obstacle to every move to peace – since nearly 3 years now.
(B K P)
Coherent pressure against the Iranian manipulation of the Yemen conflict is vital
The country’s greatest asset is its strategic location. The gateway to the Red Sea can either prosper or suffer the blight of its circumstances.
That location has not gone unnoticed in Tehran. In an obvious pincer movement Iran has an agenda of supremacy both there and in the eastern Mediterranean through Syria and Lebanon.
Coherent pressure against the Iranian manipulation of the conflict is vital. Yemen should not be a platform from which to attack naval vessels or international tankers moving across the Red Sea.
(A P)
How did a Yemeni writer anticipate the murder of Ali Saleh 4 years ago?
In an article he wrote in 2013, Yemeni writer Hamdan al-Ali predicted the death of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Four years later, that is exactly what happened.
In an interview with Alarabiya.net, al-Ali explained the story behind the article, why he expected the death of Saleh and his perspective on the current situation in Yemen.
He pointed out that “those who understand the Houthis are fully aware that its useless to make agreements with them as the Houthis do not want homeland partners. They want followers and what happened with Saleh is the best proof of that.”
Al-Ali warned of the delay in the liberation of Yemeni areas from the Houthis, as “this would increase the control of the Houthis and enable them to change the demographical nature, forcing citizens to live with the Houthi reality”
My comment: Beginning quite interesting, ending in the standard “We do not want a peace agreement” propaganda.
(A P)
MIDDLE EAST WAR: IRAN’S ALLIES ARE SECRETLY LAUNCHING MISSILES AT SAUDI ARABIA AS TEHRAN TAKES CONTROL IN THE BATTLE FOR DOMINANCE
Tehran exerts enormous influence on an expanse that stretches from Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
The Houthis’ missile attacks are becoming an increasing challenge for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of both the Yemen war and the kingdom’s economic reform plan.
“A sophisticated missile capacity in Yemen is not only going to create a serious security problem for Saudi Arabia,” said Miller, “it’s also going to make it extremely difficult for much, if any, of [the crown prince’s] new vision for Saudi Arabia to take place.”
http://www.newsweek.com/iran-saudi-arabia-yemen-houthis-trump-israel-bombing-riyadh-missiles-742886 and also at https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/890072/us-donald-trump-iran-winning-war-middle-east-saudi-arabia-yemen-missile-attack-world-war-3
My comment: The well-known US propaganda tune again for pushing to war against Iran, also by the construct of an Iran-Houthi amalgam.
cp16 Saudische Luftangriffe / Saudi air raids
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Saudi airstrikes on training base kill 26 people in Yemen’s Hajjah province
At least 26 Yemenis have lost their lives after warplanes belong to the Saudi-led military coalition hit a training camp in the northwestern province of Hajjah.
Security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Sunday that the camp was allegedly run by fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/10/545159/Yemen-Hajjah-Saudi-
and
(* A K PS)
At least 26 Houthi fighters were killed in air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Hajjah province, which lies north of Hodeidah and borders Saudi Arabia, sources close to the rebels told Agence France-Presse.
They said the strikes targeted a rebel training camp and killed its chief, Amar Al Jarab. A warehouse where rockets were stocked was also hit.
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/yemen-rebels-lose-more-territory-in-hodeidah-1.683372
and also http://www.china.org.cn/world/2017-12/11/content_50097040.htm
(A K PH)
A civilian car of a foodstuff merchant in the surgical area named Abdullah Mohammed Ghaleb Al-Wasabi took his body with his 12-year-old son, 10-year-old daughter, and the driver after they were hit by air strikes while they were on their way to the Hiss Directorate on Friday morning. (photo)
(A K PH)
Two air raids on Hais hospital in Hodeidah province
local media reported that 2 #Saudi -led coalition airstrikes targeted Hais hospital in #Hodeidah #Yemen Reports of casualties.
https://www.facebook.com/LivingInYemenOnTheEdge/photos/a.961595153893515.1073741828.961126490607048/1582460798473611/?type=3 and https://twitter.com/AhmadAlgohbary/status/939916737138610177
and
(* A K PH)
The Yemeni Ministry of Health condemns the targeting of the Hiss Hospital in two areas, resulting in 6 martyrs in a blatant challenge to the United Nations, which warned against targeting health facilities, thus the total health facilities targeted by the aggression 415 facilities
https://twitter.com/A7medJa7af/status/939963368521261056
(* A K PH)
#Saudi #UAE strikes killed 63, Dec. 5–9: details
https://twitter.com/HussainBukhaiti/status/939557207493849088
(* A K PH)
Hodeidah: 5 air raids on Hais district and 2 air raids on the House and farm of the citizen Mohamed Hamoud Moheb in Al-Tuhyta district.
Increase toll of the victims of the crime committed by the Saudi warplanes which launched aerial attacks against Shaje'a market in #Zabid district of #Yemen's western coastal province of #Hudaydah to 10 dead and 6 wounded.
(* A K PH)
Fresh Saudi airstrikes leave six civilians dead in Yemen
Saudi fighter jets conducted five aerial assaults against Khalfah outdoor market in the Nihm district of the capital province of Sana’a on Saturday, leaving five people dead and three vehicles destroyed, an unnamed local official told Saba news agency.
The official added that the airstrikes also caused considerable damage to the commercial district.
Separately, one person lost his life and four others sustained injuries when Saudi warplanes launched aerial attacks against Shaje'a market in the Zabid district of Yemen's western coastal province of Hudaydah.
and
(* A K)
Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen's markets kill at least 6
At least six people were killed and dozens of others wounded when Saudi-led coalition warplanes separately hit two popular markets in Yemen on Saturday, residents and medics said.
One of the targets, Khalakah market, is located in Nehm district, about 30 km northeast of the rebel-controlled capital Sanaa, where the airstrikes killed at least five people, injuring dozens of other shoppers, and burned three cars, according to a medic in Nehm district.
The medic told Xinhua by phone that the injured were more than 20. Residents said the market was very crowded at noon when the airstrikes hit.
The other targeted market is located in Zabid district south of the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, where one person was killed and more than 15 others injured, according to a provincial medic there, who also said the airstrikes took place at noon.
Many shops were destroyed in the attacks, the medic added.
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2017-12/10/content_50095933.htm
(* A K PH)
Five civilians killed in Saud airstrikes on market in Nehm
At least five citizens were killed and three cars were destroyed as a result of US-Saudi aggression airstrikes targeted Khalaqa market in Nehm district, a local official told Saba on Saturday.
The hostile air raids caused large damage to shops and properties of citizens in the market, the official added.
He pointed out that the aggression warplanes had launched ten raids on different areas of Nehm during the past hours.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481322.htm
and what the other side tells:
(* A K)
Saudi-led raids kill scores of Houthi rebels in Sanaa
Scores of Houthi rebels have been killed in Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to a Yemeni military spokesman on Saturday.
The raids targeted a school used by Houthis as a military barracks in Nehm directorate in the capital late Friday, Saleh al-Quteibi told Anadolu Agency
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/saudi-led-raids-kill-scores-of-houthi-rebels-in-sanaa/999544
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Film: In a repeated crime committed by the Air Force aggression targeting the market Shaza Bzbid in the province of Hodeidah, where the raids left martyrs and wounded shoppers, sellers and passersby
https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939619209763471360
and
(* A K PH)
Photos and names: The martyrs who were targeted by the aggression in the market Shaja Directorate Zabid (10 killed, 5 wounded) (photos)
while the other side claimed they had hit a military target:
(* A K)
UAE airstrike destroyed a Houthi technical at a checkpoint in Zabid district #Hodeidah carrying reinforcements for Houthi forces to Hays. (photos)
https://twitter.com/demolinari/status/939639328283561984
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Saudi Arabia bombards Yemeni TV station, kills 4
The Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen has attacked the headquarters of the Yemen al-Youm TV [Yemen Today] channel in the capital, Sana’a, killing four people and injuring five others.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported that in addition to the casualties, the Friday Saudi air raids caused serious damage to the building of the TV station and its equipment.
Houthi fighters took over the TV station following clashes with the supporters of Sale
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/09/544985/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-TV-Sanaa and http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/09/545022/Fresh-Saudi-airstrikes-leave-six-civilians-dead-in-Yemen
(* A K)
Saudi-led strike on Yemen TV station kills four: rebels
"Air bombardment by the Saudi-American enemy targeted the building of the Yemen TV satellite channel, killing four citizens," the rebel Al-Masirah news outlet said, taking a jab at US support for the Saudi-led coalition.
The head guard -- himself wounded in the attack -- told reporters at the scene the strike had hit his staff's sleeping quarters, killing four of his colleagues.
"This is not a military post and there are no weapons here. This is just the house where we security guards live," he said outside the heavily damaged Yemen TV building.
(* A K)
Suspected Saudi-led airstrikes kill 4 in Yemen
Yemeni rebel officials say Saudi-led airstrikes outside a rebel-run TV station in the capital killed at least four people.
The officials said Saturday that the airstrikes the day before targeted the gate of the facility.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suspected-saudi-led-airstrikes-kill-yemen-51686126
My comment: “Suspected”?? Nobody else is committing air strikes there.
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Yemen condemns Saudi aggression air strike on its state TV, journalists killed
Yemen's Information Ministry on Saturday strongly condemned an overnight Saudi aggression air strike on the country's state satellite television station that killed a number of journalists and bodyguards, in a statement obtained by Saba.
The ministry said the aggression airstrike came amid attempts to silence the Yemeni media from air broadcasting the Saudi war crimes against the Yemeni civilians since March 2015
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481297.htm and films: https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939510336323031043 and https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939617509438734336
and by Ruptly: https://twitter.com/HussainBukhaiti/status/939923732339896320
(* A K PH)
Dozens killed in Saudi airstrikes on northwest Yemen
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported on Friday that 15 Yemenis had died in the Saudi-led aerial attacks against Sha’ban District in the province’s Razeh City.
Eight more were killed in airstrikes that targeted the Bani Ma’adh District in the town of Sahar there, the network added.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/08/544879/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-airstrikes-fatalities
and
(* A K PH)
Film: Aggression targets citizens in border directorates in Saada 09-12-2017
This is the case of border directorates in Saada governorate. Intensive raids on citizens' houses and properties led to widespread destruction and the martyrdom of a number of innocent citizens - 9. Dez. 2017
https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939610985106509824
and
(* A K)
Yemeni officials: Saudi-led airstrikes kill 23 civilians
and
(* A K PH)
Film: Crimes against the innocent civilians in Saada 08-12-2017
Horrific scenes of the families of the Agatha Agadir Air raid, which resulted in the death of eight children and four women and three men to the martyrs in the Directorate of Razih border in Saada province
https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939270632679800833
(* A K PH)
Film: Death of 8 citizens in a new crime of aggression by Bani Moaz Sa'ada 08-12-2017
Eight citizens were killed as a result of a new crime committed by the Saudi American Air Adnan against the innocent civilians in Beni Moaz in Saada province
https://twitter.com/Hona_Almasirah/status/939263514132275201
More air raids reported on:
Dec. 11:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481450.htm Saada province
Dec. 10:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481360.htm districts Hais, Al-Touhaita.
Dec. 9:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481320.htm Serwah, Marib province
cp17 Kriegsereignisse / Theater of War
Siehe / Look at cp1c
(* A K PS)
Six civilians killed, eight wounded by Houthi shelling in Taiz
Six civilians were killed and eight others wounded on Thursday when the Houthi militias attacked a residential neighborhood and a passenger car western Taiz city, southwestern Yemen.
http://almasdaronline.com/article/96004
(A K PH)
the aggression’s mercenaries waged artillery shelling on houses and farms of citizens in Serwah, Marib prov., which caused large damage.
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news481320.htm
(A K)
Hadi government forces seize road linking Sa’ada and al Jawf governorates, northern Yemen[1]
(* B K P)
Patriot-System versagt in Saudi-Arabien und reduziert damit Kriegsgefahr in Korea
In den letzten Tagen hat die New York Times in einem Anflug von früherer Größe als kritische, investigative Zeitung einen Bericht gebracht, in dem ein Team von US-Raketenexperten auf Grund des vorhandenen Beweismaterials zum Schluss gekommen ist, dass der Sprengkopf der Huthi-Scud-Rakete ungehindert über saudische Verteidigungsanlagen hinweg sein Ziel, den Flughafen von Riad, so gut wie erreicht hatte. Lediglich der Ungenauigkeit alter Scud-Raketen sei es zu verdanken, dass kein Terminal direkt getroffen wurde. Tatsächlich sei in Riad der Sprengkopf so nahe am Inlandsterminal explodiert, dass "die Fluggäste aus ihren Sitzen gesprungen" seien.
Einige US-Beamte bezweifeln, dass die Saudis irgendeinen Teil der ankommenden Rakete getroffen haben und sagen, dafür gebe es keine Beweise", so die New York Times wörtlich.
https://deutsch.rt.com/meinung/61889-patriot-system-versagt-in-saudi/
(* B K)
They Lied Again: American Missile Defense Failed to Stop Yemeni Scud Headed for Riyadh
The Soviet-made rocket simply missed, but not before beating all five US-supplied Patriot missiles the Saudis fired against it
However, at least two aspects of the story were dead wrong. (Three if you count the nonsense of how the missile was supplied by Iran.) For one the missile wasn’t fired by the Houthis as the former rebels have no such heavy weapons. It was actually fired by Saleh loyalists, which is to say the part of the army which had remained loyal to Saleh and was part of Yemen’s anti-Saudi coalition.
Moreover the US Patriot missiles empathically did not shoot down the Scud. Five missiles were fired against it but they all missed. The Scud went on to fly right over the Saudi anti-missile battery and slammed into the ground behind it, missing the runway by just 300 meters
cp18 Sonstiges / Other
(A P)
Prayer, Forgiveness Will Bring Peace, Not War And Guns: Father Tom Uzhunnalil
The prayers and forgiveness will lead people to peace and not war, guns and bullets, says Father Tom Uzhunnalil, the Catholic priest who was freed after being kept in captivity suspectedly by the ISIS for 18 months in strife-torn Yemen.
Father Uzhunnalil said terrorists are created by community and if the communities can be forgiving, there will be peace.
He said freedom is not just doing whatever one wants to do. "It is doing the right thing at the right time and the right place."
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5508 Yemen photos
https://www.canstockphoto.com/images-photos/yemen.html
(A P)
Congratulations again to #Yemen-i #journalist @MaadAlzekri from @AP who won @ARIJNetwork #investigative #journalism award. Investigative #journalism, safety of journalists, #media #freedom = crucial, especially during conflict. (photo)
https://twitter.com/UNESCO_GCCYemen/status/939963731059994624
(B E P)
A Yemeni rebel claim highlights the risk of nuclear power in the Middle East
Given this history, and the potentially catastrophic consequences of a successful attack on a nuclear facility, the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries should seriously consider the risks when deciding whether to pursue their own forays into nuclear power.
https://thebulletin.org/yemeni-rebel-claim-highlights-risk-nuclear-power-middle-east11335
(B)
As a Western Woman Traveling in Yemen, I Learned a Lot When I Tried Wearing a Burqa
But I learned something in my discomfort. I would never pretend to fully understand women who wear the burqa, but I do think that I understand them better than I did before this experience. It was one of the most profound travel experiences I have ever had.
My comment: This is no “burka”.
(B)
Lindsay Lohan loving life in Dubai, wants to visit Yemen
The “Mean Girls” star also revealed she will be traveling to Yemen soon to give people more “hope.”
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1206511/offbeat
My comment: LOL. Ideas for the dress above.
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Photo: A jewelry store in Sana'a, Yemen.
https://972mag.com/revivng-the-spirit-of-yemens-jewish-goldsmiths/84900/olympus-digital-camera-2/
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Vorige / Previous:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-365-yemen-war-mosaic-365
Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 1-365 / Yemen War Mosaic 1-365:
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose oder / or http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm
Der saudische Luftkrieg im Bild / Saudi aerial war images:
(18 +, Nichts für Sensible!) / (18 +; Graphic!)
http://poorworld.net/YemenWar.htm und / and http://yemenwarcrimes.blogspot.de/
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