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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Mar 28, 2015 5:18:08 GMT -7
How the Yemen conflict risks new chaos in the Middle East BEIRUT — The meltdown in Yemen is pushing the Middle East dangerously closer to the wider regional conflagration many long have feared would arise from the chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring revolts. What began as a peaceful struggle to unseat a Yemeni strongman four years ago and then mutated into civil strife now risks spiraling into a full-blown war between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran over a country that lies at the choke point of one of the world’s major oil supply routes.Therein lies the key to this whole situation.The Sunnis will not allow the Shiites control of the access routes for their oil. More here: www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/how-the-yemen-conflict-risks-new-chaos-in-the-middle-east/2015/03/27/1c4e7b5c-d417-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html
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Post by Jaga on Mar 28, 2015 21:19:41 GMT -7
John,
thanks for the update. I wish we understood better what is going on there. The other day I saw Syria's map via satellite and before the start of the conflict in 2011. It is much darker there, no electricity, cities with no night light.... suggesting lots of damage. How many people are killed?
Until now, we do not even know who we can help..... there seem to be so many faces of these tragedies in Syria, Iraq and Jemen now.... not even mentioning Gaza with thousands killed by I.... and then people living in ghetto.
This is a bigger conflict than just Sunni and Shiites or Saudi Arabia versus Iran....
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Post by pieter on Mar 29, 2015 12:05:21 GMT -7
Jaga,
This conflict is spread over several continents now and as you say, much larger than just Sunni Muslims versus Shia Muslims in the Arab Gulf region and Jemen. Everything is interconnected today. The Syrian conflict is connected to the Libiyan conflict, Egypt, Tunesia, Gaza, the West-Bank, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chechenia, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Mali. And Europe due to all the Islamist terrorists who come from Europe. And they are in the USA and Canada too. I have seen these fellows in person in Arnhem-South. Even walked past them, talked with them and saw that they dissapeared all of a sudden.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by Jaga on Mar 30, 2015 12:28:48 GMT -7
Pieter, you puzzled me. How is it that people disappeared?  and who are these people? +++I have seen these fellows in person in Arnhem-South. Even walked past them, talked with them and saw that they dissapeared all of a sudden.+++ |
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 16, 2015 4:20:47 GMT -7
Saudi Arabia is starting to fall apart.Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:23 Saudi Arabia's Najran Tribes Declare War on Riyadh TEHRAN (FNA)- The tribal people living in the Saudi border city of Najran in a statement voiced opposition to Riyadh's strikes on Yemen and declared war against the Saudi regime. "The Najran tribes in a statement declared war against the occupying Saudi regime, stressing that the House of Saud represents corruption on the Earth and sheds the bloods of innocent people across the globe in a very routine and normal manner," activist Abdulaziz Farid told FNA on Monday. According to Farid, the statement also added that "the seditionist Saudi regime wants to turn the Najran region into the forefront of war against its brothers and neighbors and has used this region for artillery attacks against Yemen since the second week of the war" on the Yemeni people. He underlined that the tribes in Najran will rise against the Saudi regime for its aggression against Yemen and will fight against the Saudi forces. His remarks came after Saudi Minister of the National Guard Mutaib bin Abdullah sent gifts, worth several millions of Rials, to the Arab sheikhs in Najran in the Southeastern parts of the country to dissuade them from hosting and supporting Yemen's Ansarullah movement. Yemen's Khabar news agency reported last week that Mutaib has paid 1mln Saudi rials (approximately 250,000 US dollar) to each tribal leaders and sheikhs in Najran along with an appreciation letter to keep them on Riyadh's side. The Saudi activists have released documents showing one-million-rial checks sent for Hossein Mahdi al-Haidar, Massoud Bin Mahdi al-Haidar, Sal Ibn Naji and others who are among the Nijran leaders. The Najran tribes' statement in opposition to using the region as a frontline to attack Yemen showed that their leaders have not accepted the checks. Also yesterday reports said that a large number of Saudi nationals are on the verge of starvation as a result of intensified attacks by the Yemeni forces on the border regions and the Riyadh government's lack of attention. "As the clashes between the Yemeni revolutionary forces and Saudi forces have intensified in Najran province in Southwestern Saudi Arabia and near the border with Yemen in recent days, hundreds of residents of border regions who have fled the fighting are facing famine due to an acute shortage of foodstuff," Talal Ahmed, a Saudi political activist, told FNA on Sunday. He underlined that a large number of families in the border regions of Saudi Arabia cannot meet their daily needs, and complained that "the Saudi army has looted the houses of these people". |
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 16, 2015 4:25:57 GMT -7
Yemeni Capital under Riyadh's Chemical Attack
 TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi fighter jets bombarded the Yemeni capital city of Sana'a with banned chemical weapons early on Monday, leaving dozens of people dead and injured. According to reports, the Saudi warplanes used prohibited bombs and missiles in their Monday's airstrikes on Sana'a and claimed the lives of scores of civilians. Elsewhere in Yemen, at least 17 civilians were killed and dozens of others sustained serious injuries after the monarchy's airstrikes hit Yemen's Ta'izz. Additionally, the kingdom's air raids pounded the city of al-Hazm in Jawf province and killed 18 people. The Saudi airstrikes continue as the representatives of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement have headed for the Swiss city of Geneva to attend the UN-brokered peace talks aimed at ending the Saudi aggression against the Arab country. Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 82 days now to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement. Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures. The Monarchy's attacks have so far claimed the lives of at least 4,613 civilians, mostly women and children.
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Post by Nictoshek on Jun 16, 2015 4:36:17 GMT -7
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 28, 2015 5:56:37 GMT -7
The Madness of the Saudi Wahhabi's
Kuwait Shia mosque attack: Bomber 'was Saudi'
Kuwait state media released an image of the alleged bomber, who authorities said had been identified as Saudi citizen Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a
Kuwait says the attacker who carried out Friday's suicide bombing at a Shia mosque was a Saudi citizen.
The interior ministry named the bomber as Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a, according to state media.
The ministry said he flew into Kuwait on Friday just hours before he detonated explosives at the mosque, killing at least 27 people.
The Islamic State group - which regards Shia Muslims as heretics - says it was behind the attack.
Last month, an IS branch in Saudi Arabia carried out bombings on consecutive Fridays on Shia mosques there.
These attacks have brought home the growing threat posed by the jihadists to the Gulf, says the BBC's Arab affairs editor Sebastian Usher.
Arrests
More than 200 people were injured in Friday's bombing at Imam Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City - the bloodiest ever attack on Shia Muslims in the country's recent history.
Kuwaiti officials said the Saudi suspect was in Kuwait illegally.
Several people have been arrested in connection with the attack - including both the owner and driver of the car in which the bomber arrived at the mosque.
They have also arrested the owner of a house which the bomber is said to have visited - the interior ministry saying initial investigations showed he was a supporter of "extremist and deviant ideology".
Often at odds, Gulf states have united in confronting IS, our correspondent says.
All have joined the US-led coalition against the group in Syria and Iraq, although they have kept their participation low key.
IS is clearly hoping to stoke further tension between Sunnis and Shias in the Gulf, our correspondent adds.
Kuwait has one of the biggest Shia communities in the region, but any sectarian friction has so far been less visible than in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain.
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and who are these people?
