Posted on 01/29/2015 9:05:37 AM PST by nuconvert
Yemeni officials said that Shiite rebels have captured a key military base south of the capital, where U.S. advisers had previously trained counterterrorism forces.
They say that the Republican Guard camp captured on Thursday was used by American experts until 2012 to train local forces battling al Qaeda’s powerful Yemeni affiliate. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
The Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, have seized a number of key military facilities in recent days, including the headquarters of the paramilitary special forces. They took control of the capital in September.
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Obama fiddles while Rome burns...
Ya gotta love O’s arab spring!
Message to DC: Militarizing others to fight wars for your globalist agenda isn't working. They've got their own.
I wonder when Bahrain will fall?
(And thus the 5th fleet gets the boot)
Between 2/3 & 3/4 of the Muslims in Bahrain are Shiite and the monarch is Sunni.
Not sure how or why it become the USA’s responsibility to keep Shiites and Sunnies from killing each other.
There are many advantages for us in such a case.
Just keep them OUT of the USA. No travel, no immigration.
[and 85-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, IOW, Shiites kill twice as many per capita]
Iranian operation, from beginning to end -- Iran's proxies are gaining complete control over Yemen, and Iran already has missiles in Eritrea. $500 a barrel oil should be fun.
Agree 10,000%
He didn’t fiddle — it was all done and arranged by this administration.
How is it that an army base that has tanks, armored vehicles, heavy machine guns, etc... can LOSE to a bunch of stick eating goat rapers with AKs? It happens all the time.
The only thing I can figure is that at some level they empathize with the sand apes attacking them.
The blooming flowers of the Arab Spring smell like Shiite.
Barrack Obama, Sr. was a devout Muslim from Kenya which has had a Muslim minority population for generations - predating the era of slave trading. My question is: which branch did they belong to, the Shiite or Sunni?
The answer to that question may answer some of the questions swirling around in my head.
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