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Saudis go militarily against Yemeni rebels

attacks in the border area against Shiite militia

Tanger / Sanaa - Again and again rose thick clouds of smoke around the summit of Jebel al-Dukhan on. The 2000 meter high mountain near the city Khubah marks the border between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Yemen. Saudi air force and artillery bombarded rebel positions of the Huthi, which were allegedly from the north of Yemen invaded Saudi territory. After five days of fighting, it had finally managed to clean so Prince Khaled Bin Sultan, the deputy defense minister of Saudi Arabia, the area of the Shiite rebels again. Mohammed Abdel-Salam, the spokesman for the Huthis, called the Saudi operation "unjustified aggression". At the same time Saudi Arabia was accused of having carried out attacks on Yemeni territory.

"We care only about our territory," said the Saudi Defense Ministry, "and do not interfere in the Yemen." Understand it would be if Saudi Arabia, the Yemeni government come military under President Ali Abdullah Saleh to help would also be on Yemeni territory. On 11 August, Saleh started the operation "Scorched Earth". The stated objective was the Huthi terrorists who were planning a coup and wanted to start a Shiite Republic, once and for all "root out and find whatever". Since 2005 there had been time and again to armed conflicts between the state and the Houthis in the north of the country. So far, however, was the action of "scorched earth" low achieving success. Instead it has strengthened the economic crisis and political instability in the country.

for the neighbors, Saudi Arabia, Yemen in its operation mit Geheimdienstinformationen unterstützt hatte, ein Anlass zur Besorgnis. Al-Qaida könnte das Machtvakuum ausnützen und den Jemen "zu einem Schlachtfeld der Dschihadisten und zu einer potenziellen Basis machen", wie es Dennis Blair, der US-Geheimdienstdirektor, bei einer Anhörung des Kongresses in diesem Jahr formulierte. Zum anderen gibt es Befürchtungen, je länger der Konflikt andauert und die Huthis der jemenitischen Armee standhalten, dass der Iran und seine Eliteeinheit der Republikanischen Garden sich entschließen, den schiitischen Rebellen zur Hilfe zu kommen. Gerüchte über eine Unterstützung aus dem Iran gibt es seit dem Beginn der Großoffensive. Vor zwei Wochen wurde dann ein Schiff, das Waffen für die Rebels had downloaded, captured by the Yemeni authorities on the west coast of the country. According to Information Minister Hassan Al-Lawzi you have forwarded evidence to the Islamic Republic of Iran, which showed that Iranian religious groups supported the Huthis. "The competent authorities," said Hassan Al-Lawzi, review the five crew members of the ship that stopped in various ports Arab station.

After the military intervention by Saudi Arabia of Yemen's president clearly confident. Last Saturday, as there had been heavy fighting between troops and Saudi Huthis assured Ali Abdullah Saleh, the war has only now begonnen. Was sich in den letzten Jahren des Konflikts ereignet habe, sei nur ein Training für die Armee gewesen. Bis heute starben mehrere Tausenden Menschen, und insgesamt rund 150 000 Menschen wurden zu Flüchtlingen. "Nun werde die Armee", so der Präsident weiter, "ihren Angriff so lange weiterführen, bis es mit der tyrannischen, verräterischen Söldnergruppe (der Huthis) zu Ende geht."