Posted on 01/31/2010 7:35:33 AM PST by myknowledge
SANAA, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Yemen rejected a ceasefire offer from Shi'ite rebels on Sunday and said fighting was continuing, as neighbouring Saudi Arabia accused the insurgents of mounting sniper attacks inside its territory. The conflict with the northern rebels, who complain of social, religious and economic discrimination in the southern Arabian state, has rumbled on since 2004, but intensified last year and drew in oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
Yemen is also struggling against al Qaeda and southern secessionists, and Western powers fear it could become a failed state.
The U.S. State Department's counterterrorism chief was visiting Yemen on Sunday, state media reported, a week after Britain hosted a conference on how to stabilise the Arab world's poorest country.
Yemeni soldiers clashed with rebels in the northern provinces of Malahidh and Saada, killing 20, including a leader responsible for training, state media reported on Sunday.
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If us infidels and Jews weren’t around, the religion of peace would continue to destroy each other.
It would have been better for us to have armed the hell out of them and then smoke the winners.
It would have been better for us to have armed the hell out of them and then smoke the winners.
More or less what ended up happening in Afghanistan.
Isn’t that also what happened in the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s? Because of Iran-Contra, that is.
If the Shi’ia and the Sunn’i wish to fight someone, better they fight each other than non-Muslims......
Sadly, I am starting to think that your stated mindset is the proper one anymore.
I would suggest bombing them into the Stone Age, but they are already there. (sigh)
You’ve got it. We armed Iran against Iraq, used the money to fund the freedom-fighters in Nicaragua, and gave Israel a chance to contact sane Iranians for a while.
John Kerry tried to wreck all this by his bogus investigations into alleged drug smuggling by the “contras”. A total flop of an investigation, wasted a reported 2-3 million dollars, and allowed Kerry to hire a bunch of leftist wackos and one Hanoi propagandist.
This sordid betrayal of our allies is worthy of a book and a congressional investigation once the Republicans regain control of the House/Senate.
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