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'Only God can save us': Yemen blockade may cause world's largest famine in decades

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  1. Margot2

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    Remember when Al Qaeda attacked the US embassy in Yemen?


    2008 attack on the American Embassy in Yemen. The 2008 American Embassy attack in Yemen in Sana'a,Yemen on September 17, 2008, resulted in 18 deaths and 16 injuries. Six attackers, six Yemeni police, and six civilians were killed.
     
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    alexa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Your link says SORRY We can't seem to find the page you wanted.
     
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    alexa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am reading about it now. It is of course Yemen's choice who it makes friends with and if it was me I would not be making friends with people who have been bullying me. ;)
     
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    Saleh stepped down and Hadi was ELECTED president of Yemen in 2012. He ran unopposed.. .
     
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    The al Houthis, Al Qaeda and their affiliates have been bullying Yemen since 2008..

    Hadi was the ELECTED president of Yemen.
     
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    Mountains of the Yemen border.. Saudi side.

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    Iranian Involvement in Yemen

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    For at least a decade, there have been numerous Yemeni, Saudi, and other countries’ assertions that Iran has been involved in supporting northern Yemeni rebels seeking autonomy from the Sana’a government. Iranian diplomatic and political support for this rebellious group (known as the Houthis) is undeniable, but Iranian military assistance for them has not always been easy to prove. This situation appeared to change in 2011 when Iran's increased involvement in Yemen occurred in response to both the chaotic situation there during the final year of the Saleh regime and the danger that the Arab Spring revolutions would leave Iran increasingly isolated. Evidence of Iranian efforts to supply weapons to the Houthis now seems overwhelming in contrast to uncertain reports prior to 2011. In addition, at least some of Yemen's southern secessionists also appear to be receiving at least limited Iranian financial support.

    Iranian Involvement in Yemen. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264980134_Iranian_Involvement_in_Yemen [accessed Nov 14 2017].
     
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    The US has stopped several Iranian ships taking weapons to Yemen and all of the missiles fired into the Najran area were made in Iran, This last one a week ago reached the airport in Riyadh.
     
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    Yes, sounds about right, which is why the ME has to rely on outsiders to keep them away from each others' throats.
     
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    Correct.
     
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    Yemen rebels vow escalation as Saudis look to relax blockade - San ...
    www.sfchronicle.com/.../Saudi-Arabia-says-it-will-reopen-Yemen-airports-
    10 hours ago - Yemen rebels vow escalation as Saudis look to relax blockade .... Al-Sammad said that with the blockade, the coalition "shut down all doors for ... The more the blockade tightens, he said, the more the Houthis will develop ...
     
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    The UN says the blockade is causing a mass famine. The famine, according to Moon, is not a side affect of the war, but is being used as a weapon by the Saudis to starve Yemeni civilians over their humiliating failure for a military victory.

    The Saudi government announced the re-opening of some Yemeni ports and airports. All of these are in the south and under control of Saudi proxy forces who are fighting the Houthi-Saleh alliance in north-west Yemen. Some 70% of the population lives in the north-western areas which will continue to be under an extreme blockade. The most important port in their area is Hodeida which will stay closed.

    The most important airport is in Sanaa. The Saudi/U.S./UK alliance blocks even UN flights with medical supplies from using it.


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    http://www.moonofalabama.org/
     
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    Nope, this is just you apologising for the Sauds and friends again. They are the people invading and bombing a sovereign country. I have done a little more looking. Imagine my surprise when one of the first things I discovered was that it was not only the Houthi who were being accused of putting in mines but also allies of the previous President!!!! The one you mention standing down in post 81
    Have you ever heard of any country with even the tiniest level of democracy electing someone who is unopposed! o_O Power was actually changed to Hadi by Saleh after a GCC brokered deal. Basically just the method the Sauds know - one King hands on power to another. Seems Salaf never gave up and at that time got into collusion with the Houthi which has been continuing, hence the claim that they both had been mining....so while it is true that his government fought with the Houthis it is being extremely economical with the truth not to say that after the people of Yemen were forced to have Hadi, the people who were previously fighting the Houthis went on their side. Now according to this it appears that Salef had been enticing the Houthis to attack making them feel it was necessary for the country.

    https://www.thenational.ae/world/me...convenience-heads-for-bitter-divorce-1.621694


    The plot thickens even more because the Saudis have now raised Saleh from his deathbed arranging for medical help for him in both Saudi Arabia and Russia. and now Salaf is trying to reassert himself as dictator supported by the Saudi coalition. (I seem to remember reading last week that the Sauds had got fed up with Hadi)


    I hadn't known that the Saudi coalition is also invading Yemen and yes it does appear they are fighting with Al Qaeda as well as the Houthis, as well as the allies of Salef and just about everyone else who is a Yemen citizen.

    I guess one question is why did the Sauds originally want rid of Saleh, assuming they did and why do they now want him back as it appears they do.
     
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    Saleh stepped down in 2012 after months of protests that brought Yemen to the brink of war.
     
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    Of course. UK. Life peers.

    Oh, UK citizens would feel at home in Yemen, wouldn't they?

    Now replace Hadi with Assad (to whom his father handed on the power, no elections), Houthis with syrian rebels, Saudi Arabia and their coalition partners with Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia...

    Good luck making sense of your own worldview.
     
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    Saleh had to side with the Houthis or they would have stormed his house and killed him.. They told him so at the time.

    Yemen has been unstable and impoverished my whole lifetime.. It used to be the monarchists against the communists and it seems to have devolved and fractured into many more miserable factions since then.

    I was in Asir in 2000 and security was an serious issue because or terrorists coming across the border.
     
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    The genocide in Yemen continues...

    The only airport is destroyed by Saudi and UAE jets to keep aid from reaching Yemen. Other than famine, cholera cases are now reaching almost a million.

    Saudi and the UAE jets fueled by USA planes have targeted the Sana’a International Airport's Navigational Guidance System (VOR-DME).

    Based on the information from the ground, the navigation system was destroyed during bombardment.

    It is noteworthy that Sana’a Airport was the only way for NGOs and humanitarian agencies working in Yemen to deliver the aid for civilians in need.

    Millions of Yemeni civilians are currently without access to basic goods or drinkable water due to the ongoing Saudi-led coalition onslaught.

    The number of cholera cases has already approached a million.


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    http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/11/saudiuae-jets-prevent-aid-delivery-to.html
     
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    Well, the US Navy could run the blockade with food deliveries.

    That is, if you are willing to risk far-ranging war with US involvement, and if young people are willing to risk a draft and being forced by law to put down their devices and pick up a gun.

    But the UN and people merely whining and moaning about it will not have any effect.
     
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    Now you're being ridiculous. We ceased being a humane nation when our culture changed, so no one expects the US to do anything to help the Yemenis. ..except for some Americans who haven't yet faced reality, and what we have become. The American embassy staff rushed out of Yemen, and left the Yemenis with American citizenship to fend for themselves. Fortunately the Russian and Chinese planes were willing to take them.

    What is expected from Washington though is to tell the truth to the American people, and let them know we're supporting the Saudi genocide militarily. .. after all the burden of those deaths are going to be on our shoulders, the same as it was on the German people for what the Nazis did.
     
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    You are correct. But if something is to be actually done about it, that action is going to be costly with the sacrifice of US lives. The US Army is down to taking druggies and psychos now, so there would have to be a draft.

    Once there are long lines at gas stations with rationing of gasoline, people will not care at all.

    And who could forget June 12th, 1975.
     
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