Yemen Rebels Push Deep into Hadi's Former Refuge Aden
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Rebels battled their way into the heart of Yemen's main southern city Aden where fighting raged Thursday in the former stronghold of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has fled overseas.
The advance comes despite a week of Saudi-led air strikes aimed at preventing the fall of Hadi, who has taken refuge in Riyadh.
The Iran-backed Huthi rebels and allied army units loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh were advancing on the presidential palace after seizing the key district of Khor Maksar, home to several foreign consulates and U.N. offices, residents said.
At least 19 people were killed on Wednesday in clashes pitting the rebels against armed residents and local militia, officials said.
Hadi fled to the southern city from the rebel-held capital in February.
But he went into hiding last week as the rebels advanced on his last remaining bastion and later resurfaced in the Saudi capital.
His aides have said he has no immediate plan to return to Aden.
02 April 2015, 16:33
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The people of Aden are peaceful business oriented people much like the Sunnis of Beirut. The vast majority of them are unarmed and have no military training. They are no match for the iranian huthis and the Saleh traitor troops.
02 April 2015, 16:57
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Difference is, the majority of Aden are loyal to the late President Saleh and the Ansarallah movement.
Nobody wants to support a dictator called Hadi, that invites foreign aggression to bomb his own people.
02 April 2015, 18:04
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I was hesitating to answer you Mystic. But you do go on with unparalleled propaganda. Hadi is a peaceful compromise president who does not have a militia. He gave into the Huthis demands one after the other, yet they sneaked in under some populists demands such as lifting of fuel subsidies and conquered Sanaa and surrounded the president. And you are here telling us the Houthis are supported by the majority in Yemen. Why did they take up arms and accepted arms and training from Iran. Someone with a majority will resort to the ballots boxes and not to arms.
02 April 2015, 18:58
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marcus, I am open for discussion aslong as it don't get too childish.
By calling Hadi a peaceful individual is an outright lie.
He does have militias in Yemen, funded by the Saudis, he did call for a foreign backed intervention against his own people. He favors bombing the people, be it Sunni or Shia for that matter, aslong as it is the Saudis that does all the work for him.
Actually the Yemeni people has become more united after the Saudi bombardment, everyone are uniting against the foreign aggressors.
Reason the people wanted to remove him, is because Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Middle East and they have been in Saudis shackles for a very long time, now the Yemeni people decided enough is enough, by removing the corrupted Hadi and fight back against the Wahabis.
02 April 2015, 19:55
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Mystic - This is utter nonsense. Hadi was chosen and agreed upon by the various parties exactly because he did not have a strong power base which would allow him to impose himself upon the nation and needed to achieve compromise between the different constituent parties inside Yemen. Saleh who has and has his own power base and controls much of the military chose Hadi as his vice president exactly for the same reason.
The one that pushed Yemen into this hell hole is the insatiable greed of the Houthis for power and their inability to compromise. Hadi tries to accommodate them relentlessly and he was attacked for this by other parts of the Yemeni polity. Yet the Houthis were never satisfied. They are to blame. They need to back down.
03 April 2015, 00:39
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Yemen is very poor in part because the corrupt Saleh stole $60 billion from it over the last 30 years.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31632502
02 April 2015, 18:11
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قال حيدر مصلحي، وزير الاستخبارات الإيراني السابق في حكومة محمود أحمدي نجاد، إن "إيران تسيطر فعلاً على أربع عواصم عربية كمال قال رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتنياهو".
ونقلت وكالة أنباء "فارس" عن مصلحي تناغم تصريحاته مع تصريحات رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي، بقوله إن "تصريحات نتنياهو تبين مدى تنامي قوة إيران في المنطقة".
وبحسب مصلحي، فإن "الثورة الإيرانية لا تعرف الحدود وهي لكل الشيعة"، مؤكداً أن "جماعة الحوثيين في اليمن هي إحدى نتاجات الثورة الإيرانية".
وليست هذه المرة الأولى التي تصدر فيها تصريحات عن قادة في إيران سياسيين وعسكريين، حول توسعهم ونفوذهم في المنطقة العربية بواسطة الجماعات والميليشيات الطائفية التابعة لطهران في بعض الدول.
02 April 2015, 18:20
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but your bosses in Iran just said the Huthis are a product of the islamic iranian revolution.
02 April 2015, 18:36
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Abbas is right and his paymasters in Iran are wrong;) What the iranian ex head of intelligence confirmed is the shia consider themselves part of a nation regardless of where they are. They are not citizens of Yemen, Lebanon, or Bahrain but rather citizens of the shia nation.
02 April 2015, 18:35
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You mean the republic of the Mullahs who has been arming militias and terror group everywhere? agreed
02 April 2015, 21:47
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This is who the Houthie's are partnered with...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31632502
Saleh is a Shia, and he is the most corrupt official in the history of Yemen. According to the UN, Saleh stole $60 billion from Yemen ($2 billion per year).
Saleh agreed to step down and accept Hadi as President, but like a good houthie, he reneged on his promise.
03 April 2015, 05:24
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@southern:
I would like to discuss RAP music and its impact on democracy. Upon my next visit to Lebanon, I would like to meet with you in a neutral place where we both feel comfortable. Dahieh for example?
