Posted on 09/23/2014 4:49:40 PM PDT by markomalley
President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi warned Tuesday of “civil war” in Sunni-majority Yemen and vowed to restore state authority as Shiite rebels in apparent near-total control of Sanaa hailed their “victory.”
Yemen “is facing a conspiracy” and “the danger of slipping into civil war,” Hadi said in a speech at the presidential palace, two days after Houthi rebels took all other key state institutions in the capital, overshadowing a U.N.-brokered peace deal.
In a televised speech, rebel leader Abdul-Malek al-Houthi hailed what he called the “victory” of his fighters.
“We congratulate our people on the victory of their popular revolution that has established a new era based on cooperation,” Houthi said.
Hadi had earlier evoked the specter of foreign plots aimed at torpedoing progress in Yemen.
“Internal and foreign forces [have] allied to ... overthrow the Yemeni model” of power transition following an Arab Spring-inspired uprising, the president said.
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“,,, danger of slipping into civil war...”
In a country like Yemen it would really be kind of hard to tell!
Almost in every damn sandrat muzzie hades hole of a country the natives are restless. Always jihadi fighting for allah against some rivals. A lovely bunch of cretins the world over.
Let them.
Muslims fighting Muslims is a win-win. Don’t get in their way.
While they are doing that they aren’t bothering others as much.
I wonder which side of the Yemeni civil war Obamebola will support?
“the danger of slipping into civil war,”
Is it like the old wars between North Yemen and South Yemen?
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