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Press TV November 24, 2009 Saudi, Yemeni forces attack Houthi fighters -The Houthis...say they are defending their people against government marginalization policies which they believe have been adopted under pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists, who consider Shias heretics....The fighters say Yemeni villages are being targeted with deadly phosphorous bombs, which cause massive injuries among the Shia civilian population. -The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...estimates that since 2004 up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'adah to take refuge in overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations. Shia Houthi fighters say that Saudi Arabian forces along with Yemeni military have carried out a fresh ground incursion in northern parts of the country after suffering a heavy defeat on the ground. The attacks on Tuesday were taking place in the border districts of Malahiz and Shada provinces. In the incursion, the Saudi army had been using all kind of weapons: land, air, tanks, and artillery, they added. The Houthis have already said they inflicted heavy damage on Saudi troops. "Saudi troops attacked Yemen from several positions on Monday, but were stopped short at night from two of those positions," the fighters' leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi's office announced in a Tuesday statement, according to a translation of the Arabic text. "The third offensive dragged on into the night but eventually our fighters were able to block the attack and inflict heavy losses on the enemy," it added. The statement said that the Saudi army suffered casualties and lost weapons in the nighttime clashes. The Houthi fighters said following the clashes, the Saudi military and the Yemeni air force began air raids on the borderline Jebel al-Dukhan and Jebel Al-Ramih areas. According to the Shia fighters the aerial bombardment continued till the early hours of the morning. Al-Houthi's statement said the joint air raids with the Saudi Arabian air force shows that Sana'a's "claims of patriotism and the will to defend the country's soil are nothing but propaganda." The conflict in northern Yemen first began in 2004 between Sana'a and Houthi fighters, but relative peace had returned to region until August 11, when the Yemeni army began a major offensive, dubbed Operation Scorched Earth, against the province of Sa'adah. The government claims that the fighters, who are named after their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, seek to restore the Shia Zaidi imamate system, which was overthrown in a 1962 coup. The Houthis, however, say they are defending their people against government marginalization policies which they believe have been adopted under pressure from Saudi-backed Wahhabi extremists, who consider Shias heretics. Recently, the Saudi Arabian government has aggravated the situation even more by launching its own offensive against northern Yemen based on an allegation that Houthi fighters have killed two of its soldiers on the border. The fighters say Yemeni villages are being targeted with deadly phosphorous bombs, which cause massive injuries among the Shia civilian population. As Sana'a does not allow independent media into the conflict zone, there are no clear estimates available as to how many people have been killed in the Shia province of Sa'adah since the beginning of the unrest in 2004 or in the recent violence. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), however, estimates that since 2004 up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'adah to take refuge in overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [email protected] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
