Huh? Morocco and Jordan send elite troops to assist humiliated Saudis in Yemen
UPDATE from the battle: A source close to the military correspondent in the Houthi province of Saada confirmed that elements of the Yemeni forces, which joined with the Saudi army in the last crawl on Mount Rumaih, clashed with the Saudi army with intense bombardment from the Saudi rear as the informed source said. These Yemeni army elements returned with spoils of Saudi Arabia including modern automatic rifles each of which costs more than 15 thousand Saudi Riyals, equivalent to the salary of approximately 40 Yemeni soldiers per month, as well as some of the munitions and supplies. The source revealed that the Saudi army now refuse the participation of the Yemeni army in ground operations. A Yemeni army conspiracy against Saudis complicates the situation on the ground even more.
Here is some recent live battle footage (put speakers max):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRyIg63ji4
Huh? Morocco and Jordan send elite troops to assist humiliated Saudis in Yemen
One would think that the Huthis are a ‘superpower’, not just a small group of Yemeni citizens defending themselves against three mighty armies: their own tyrannic government, reinforced by Jordanian, and now Moroccan special forces.
According to the Houthi web site, reliable sources confirm that a Jordanian detachment of special forces arrived in Saudi Arabia on 22/11/2009, to reinforce the beleagered and humiliated Saudi ground forces in their invasion of N. Yemen which began 3 November 2009. Saudis additionaly requested pilots, and operations officers. This Jordanian contingent has been confirmed by the press elsewhere, for example here.
Yemeni Government forces ended the latest of five ceasefires with the Houthis in August when they launched ‘Operation Scorched Earth’ — a name suggestive of the kinds of tactics that have been used - against the Houthis, seriously aggravating a humanitarian crisis that has seen over 175,000 displaced from their homes since 2004. Houthis defeated government forces, and captured considerable troops, and weapons. Humiliated Yemen sought and obtained support from Saudi Arabia, but Saudi forces too have been defeated.
Now Saudi forces are bombing indisciminately North Yemen towns and villages using F15’s and phophosous and cluster bombs, just like Israel used on Gaza. Amnesty International has urged Saudi Arabian authorities to investigate reported indiscriminate killing of civilians in Yemen.
Al Quds Al Arabi online newspaper reports, quoting Spainish news sources, that following their humiliation at the border by Houthi fighters, Saudi Arabia requested reinforcements from Morocco’s special forces to join the Saudi-Jordanian forces in their agression on the people of North Yemen.
This is the Al Quds Al Arabi source: “Marruecos y Jordania envían tropas de élite para ayudar a los saudíes en Yemen” Morocco and Jordan sent elite troops to assist the Saudis in Yemen.
The Spanish newspaper, ‘exposes’ behind-the-war scenes. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is facing a ferocious losing battle without any support from the West, the news paper said. The West has accused Abdullah Saleh of complacency in the fight against al Qaeda terrorists who killed seven Spanish tourists in July 2007. This right-wing newspaper, known for its sources in the military, reported that Abdullah Saleh, faced with this situation, was forced to request assistance of the Sunni Arab world, especially Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s Northern neighbor. According to the news report, Saudi Arabia fears Iran’s strategy to create hotbeds of tension and armed pro-Iran movements such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Palestinian Hamas movement.
As for Iran, no one has come up with concrete evidence that the Houthis are fighting with Iranian arms and ammunition.
In fact, the Houthis are fighting with Saudi captured weapons as Houthi videos show, including captured Saudi tanks and artilliary. The Saudis find it imperative to call this war a regional war, the Houthis being smeared as proxies to Iran. This of course is a failed Zionist plot to divide the Moslem world into Shia and Suni. A myth that the Spanish news paper, perpetuates in the Western press.
Now it appears that the United States does not believe that Iran is backing a Shiite revolt in northern Yemen, warning against attempts to portray the situation as a sectarian conflict.
Another myth perpetuated by Zionist Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is that the Houthis are Al CIAda. “The Obama administration is on guard against an Al-Qaeda buildup in Yemen and Somalia as it expects the militants to seek refuge there as Washington turns the screws on Afghanistan and Pakistan. “
“The struggle against violent extremism will not be finished quickly, and it extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan,” President Barack Obama warned Tuesday as he unveiled his revamped strategy for central Asia.
“Where Al-Qaeda and its allies attempt to establish a foothold — whether in Somalia or Yemen or elsewhere — they must be confronted …”
This is of course lies as the USA perpetuates the shadow boxing called the “war on tera.”
In the heat of battle, the Americans have now withdrawn their accusations that Houthis are Al CIAda. Listen to their announcement: “The man responsible for executing part of al Qaeda’s strategy to move the terrorist groups’ Arab militant fighters out of the Afghanistan-Pakistan region to Yemen may be dead, senior Pakistani security officials and Arab diplomats in Pakistan.”
The quoted Spanish gazette ‘El Imparcial’, which means ‘The Impartial’, states that Saudi Arabia has the best modern military machine in the Arab world but lacks adequate training for its soldiers to combat the guerrilla warfare waged by the Houthis. To address this deficiency, Saudi Arabia resorted to asking for military assistance from some Suni Arab countries including Jordan and Morocco.
The paper affirms that Moroccan King Mohammed VI met the request of his counterpart King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and dispatched commando paratroopers to conduct operations behind the enemy lines. This information was attributed to Western intelligence sources. This report has been iterated here. and here.
The Moroccan army is experienced by virtue of the Moroccan desert war, and is trained in guerrilla warfare, adds the Gazette, which also noted the existing tension in relations between Tehran and Rabat. Morocco cut ties with Iran, and launched a campaign against followers of the Shiite sect in Moroccan cities over the past months.
So now in the Sa’ada war we have the Yemeni army and air force supported (if not led) by Saudi troops and air strikes, plus Jordanian and Moroccan special forces on the side of the Yemeni government. And, contrary to what the Spanish ‘Impersial’ says: all these military forces, Yemeni, Jordanian, and Moroccan, have previously received much US aid and training.
And again, contrary to the Spanish ‘impartial’ report, everyone knows about Western support for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, that irrational, brutal, anti-democratic dictator who utilizes al Qaeda when convenient. Saleh’s primary goal does not seem to be a healthy economically sound Yemen, as seems clear, but instead unbridled power at all costs. He’s been in power for thirty years. Saleh has been fighting a war against his people in Southern Yemen as well. And to make things simple for the reader, al Qaeda in Yemen are in fact Officers in the Yemeni Security Forces.
Selected Sources:
Houthi web site (also check out latest live battle videos):
http://sadahonline.org/ar/home.html
Houthi YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/sadahonlineorg#p/u
Al Qaeda’s Yemen Connection May Be Dead
Other
http://armiesofliberation.com/
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