Whoa...interesting. Iran AND Syria are poking around the Arabian peninsula.
If I read it right it claims Syria is smuggling weapons to the Shi’ites in eastern Saudi Arabia, where the oilfields are. Iran has always thought about arming them to make controlling the oil difficult for Saudi and try to get a pro-Iran hold on it. Maybe they’re using their proxy to do their dirty work for them.
OK, best translation I could do....
It’s hard for us to prove the involvement of the Syrian regime in supporting the Hawthis in Yemen, but the day is coming that will confirm our thoughts that this regime has allied itself with the Hawthis by supporting them in Yemen or in Cairo, as one of their leaders there converted to Shi’ism and fled to Damascus, which gave him asylum. The Syrian regime desperately seeks to spread Shi’ism to Lebanon, Iraq, and the Gulf States, and attract scores of students to Shi’ism and teach them about it in seminaries now deployed in Syria....
The Hawthis have publicly urged Tehran and Iraq to open an office for them in Baghdad and to create new settlements in Iran to defend their spies in the Gulf. Taking these risks will cost the Hawthis much by forcing them to give up other issues such as pressuring the Syrian regime to smuggle weapons to the Shi’ites in eastern Saudi Arabia. This strategy now would be solely in the Syrian regime’s hands.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331119/posts
Battle on the Arabian Peninsula
FrontPage Magazine ^ | September 3, 2009 | Ryan Mauro
Posted on September 3, 2009 5:04:29 AM PDT by TDCAnalyst
The Yemeni military is currently engaged in a large offensive against well-armed, Iranian-backed Zaydi Shiite militants in the north of the country, resulting in over 100,000 people leaving their homes. The Saudis are concerned about the instability spreading inside their borders, and the West as a whole should be concerned about how a militant Shiite enclave in Yemen could give Iran the capabilities to strike inside the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa and shut down traffic through the Red Sea.
The militant Zaydi Shiites are often referred to as Houthis in order to specify their radical strain within the Zaydi community, named after their spiritual leader, the late Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, killed in 2004. They are currently led by his brothers with Abdul-Malik taking the leading role.
The followers of the al-Houthi family leading the rebellion, which call themselves “The Young Believers,” are rabidly anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic and seek to overthrow the current government and replace it with a theocracy. Hussein al-Houthi’s father, Badreddin, who led an uprising in 2005 and is accused of receiving safe harbor in Iran in 2004, is quoted as saying “We are for justice. We do not know this democracy you speak of.” They stand against the rest of the Zaydis in Yemen, which includes President Saleh and makes up about 40 to 45% of the overall population....
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