It isn't like they are a major market contributor.
Posted on 01/19/2015 1:50:14 PM PST by tcrlaf
In what Yemen's information minister described as an "attempted coup" Shia Houthi rebels (backed by Hizbollah and Iran) have surrounded the Yemeni Presidential Palace putting them, as The Telegraph reports, in direct confrontation with al-Qaeda and the Yemen government., Amid hopes of a compromise deal or cease-fire in the conflict that has been under way since September when the Houthis swept into Sana'a, the latest reports are the nation has gone from bad to worse...
YEMENI PM SAID SURROUNDED BY HOUTHI MILITIAS: CNN YEMEN INFORMATION MINISTER SAYS GOVERNMENT HAS LOST CONTROL OVER COUNTRY -- CNN
Oil prices, interestingly, fell on the increasing tensions today - as we pre-suppose the market is pricing in a successful coup - and the ensuing pump-fest of supply (at any price - just give us revenues) will trump Yelemni tribes threats to cut off supply if the President is harmed.
*YEMEN HOUTHI REBELS SEIZE STATE NEWS AGENCY, TV STATION: AP
Yemen official says Houthi rebels seize state news agency, TV station in 'step toward coup'
*YEMENI MINISTER SAYS SHI'ITE MILITANTS ATTEMPTED COUP: ARABIYA
*YEMENI TRIBES TO CUT OIL SUPPLY IF PRESIDENT HARMED: JAZEERA
Tribes in Marib say will cut supplies if Shiite rebels harmed President Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi, Al Jazeera reports without saying where it obtained the information.
Then this...
*YEMEN CEASEFIRE IN CAPITAL TAKES EFFECT, AFP REPORTS
Which didn't last long...
*YEMENI PM SAID SURROUNDED BY HOUTHI MILITIAS: CNN *YEMEN PM'S CONVOY COMES UNDER FIRE FROM HOUTHI FIGHTERS: AFP *EXPLOSION HEARD NEAR PRESIDENTIAL COMPOUND IN YEMEN: ARABIYA
CNN just said U.S. Forces are ready to go into Yemen to evacuate the Embassy, "if required".
Hey, same here.
Didn’t we just send a few high risk GITMO prisoners there?
TWEETS:
DRUDGE REPORT
Yemen fighters, accused of coup, surround PM’s residence...
CNN Breaking News
U.S. military ready to evacuate American Embassy in Yemen “on short notice” if ordered, official says.
JL News Alert
RIGHT NOW: 3 US jets and 3 US drones are now in the skies above Yemen’s Capitol Sanaa
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Released lastweek.
HOPEY-CHANGEY!!!
Is there now or has there ever been a muslim country that did not have bouts of savagery, turmoil or violence?
I’m more surprised they claim they HAD control of the nation.
Yemen is 65% Sunni, yet there’s a Shiite coup?
“RIGHT NOW: 3 US jets and 3 US drones are now in the skies above Yemen’s Capitol Sanaa”
That’ll Learn’em! If that don’t work send in James Taylor.
It isn't like they are a major market contributor.
That be some powerful Shiite!
Another Obama success story.
The Bin Laden family are Yemeni.
So are the 5 GITMO terrorists that 0bama just let go.
Will they send V-22’s?
Q: What does this mean for al-Qaida in Yemen? Where does it leave the U.S.?
A: Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which Washington considers to be the group’s most dangerous branch, has been thriving from the fallout of the Houthis’ expansionist aspirations in central Yemen, where Sunni tribesmen predominate. The turmoil has taken a sharply sectarian tone, pitting Sunnis against Shiites, to the benefit of Sunni al-Qaida. The militant group claims to be present in 16 out of Yemen’s 21 provinces.
With the gradual ascendance of Houthis to power and the waning of Hadi’s clout, the U.S. risks losing a faithful partner and ally in its yearslong campaign against AQAP, likely harming that effort.
Q: Who are the Houthis?
A: The Houthi movement started as a small religious group called “The Believing Youth,” who sought to revive Zaydism, a Shiite sect to which some 30 percent of Yemenis, mainly in the north, belong. After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq stoked anti-American sentiment in the region, Hussein al-Houthi capitalized on popular anger to launch an armed revolt against the U.S.-allied president at the time, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Government troops killed Houthi in 2004, but his followers continued the bloody northern insurgency he started against Saleh, a longtime autocrat, until a 2010 cease-fire. Known now for the name of the movement’s founder, the Houthis also enjoyed wide support among disenchanted tribesmen who had suffered from Saleh’s military campaigns.
Q: How much territory do they control? What is their ultimate goal?
A: After Saleh’s 2012 ouster following Arab Spring protests, the Houthis’ power grew. Battling their way from their northern heartland in Saada toward the south, they struck blows against the government as well as another old enemy, the Hashid tribal federation. That group, also Zaydis, was allied to the Islamist Islah party — the Muslim Brotherhood’s branch in Yemen — as well as some top military generals. In September 2014, the Houthis seized the capital after besieging it for weeks under the pretext that they wanted a new government and the reinstatement of fuel subsidies. Since then, the Houthis have overrun at least eight provinces including Hodeida, which has the country’s second largest port. For weeks, its fighters have been deployed to the eastern province of Marib, which is rich in oil and natural gas. However, the presence of strong local tribes in Marib will likely prevent a full takeover.
Lurch soon to arrive with The Clash:
Rock the Kazbah...
better not, because Sharif don’t like it
US has plenty of assets out that way
Lol. World falling to pieces. We’re all gonna burn together it looks like
Yemen actually HAS a supposed government, that is news to me.... I thought it was just a bunch of tribal crazy people figthting each other constantly and occasionally masquerading as one...
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