Yemen:On the Crossroads to WAR-UPDATE
Yemen is smoking again... The ancient struggle between Shia and Sunni threatens to engulf Yemen. The casulty count is over 2000 dead this month as US allies battle Iran's proxies on a second front of this undeclared war. As the House of Sauud strives to prevent itself from being surrounded by Shia dominated countries, Yemen's northern mountains have become a flash point as the government wages intense battles for control. Debka lists 8 main features: 1. Two weeks ago, president Ali Abdullah Saleh's army launched the sixth round since the year 2000 of his war with the Houthis, deploying about 20,000 troops for a major offensive to dislodge the 15,000 Houthis from their mountain fastnesses (12-18,000 feet tall) in the northern province of Saada. 2. The Houthis are Zaydis who claim they adhere to the purest form of Shiite Islam. They are fighting to bring the true faith to Yemen by restoring the Zaydi imamate overthrown in 1962. Their name derives ...