Saudi troops fighting in Yemen

[Korath]

The information seems scares. What I understand, some Soudi units supported by airforce crossed into Yemen to eradicate bases of some extremists.

I also found the following news:

Report: Yemeni rebels say capture Saudi soldiers

Published: 11.06.09, 18:38 / Israel News
Yemen's Shiite rebels have captured an unspecified number of Saudi soldiers, a rebel spokesman told Al Jazeera television on Friday, following clashes near the border between the two countries.

"We will carry out interviews with them (for the media) ... they will be treated with respect," Mohammed Abdel-Salam told Al Jazeera television by telephone. (Reuters)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...801292,00.html

I would greatly appreciate if anyone can add any more info on the issue - especially our Arab friends who may have access to some interesting news.

[Ordie]

Al Qaida (a Sunni Radical Organization) has been operating openly for decades in Yemen along the frontier with Saudi Arabia.

The Yemenis and Saudis never cared.

Yet when a Shia group emerges, all of a sudden the Saudi's act like flies on crap.

Go figure??????

[Universal_Soldier]

Originally Posted by Ordie

Al Qaida (a Sunni Radical Organization) has been operating openly for decades in Yemen along the frontier with Saudi Arabia.

The Yemenis and Saudis never cared.

Yet when a Shia group emerges, all of a sudden the Saudi's act like flies on crap.

Go figure??????

Hypocrisy is a global phenomenon. Nobody owns the copy rights. SA is doing what others have done in the past and are still doing.

But in this very case, hypocrisy or not, I support their actions.

[Mordoror]

But in this very case, hypocrisy or not, I support their actions.

me not
shia doesn't mean automatically linked to Iran
especially those ones that are closer to sunnism than to iranian shiism
so all the crap about shia danger spreading (at least for that issue) smell the rotten fish
Yemen was/is a rearbase of some of the worst members of AQ
KSA the same
i cannot support them and in fact i am pretty glad that what has gone around came around ....

[Nizark]

interesting coincidence..Iran and Pakistan having border issues, now Saudi Arabia and Yemen are losing their collective shiz. Perhaps Turkey and Iraq renew their Kurdish problem?

[Universal_Soldier]

Originally Posted by Nizark

interesting coincidence..Iran and Pakistan having border issues, now Saudi Arabia and Yemen are losing their collective shiz. Perhaps Turkey and Iraq renew their Kurdish problem?

plus Iran wants a nuclear bomb.....explosive sh!t goin on in ME.

[Amenoz]

this is the latest devolpment :
Saudi detains 100 rebels, 40 soldiers wounded

DUBAI (Al Arabiya)
The Saudi authorities on Friday detained 100 Yemeni Houthi rebels who have infiltrated into the kingdom wearing women clothes, as 40 Saudi soldiers have been wounded in the ongoing military confrontations on the border regions between the Kingdom and Yemen, Al Arabiya correspondent said.

Yemeni Houthi rebels learlier launched an attack on the borders and entered al-Qarn village, which is only 5kms away from where the Saudi ground troops are deployed, he said.

Saudi forces continued on Friday pounding the positions of the Yemeni rebels who infiltrated into the kingdom and attacked its border guards.

Saudi Arabia also beefed up its forces on the border with its southern neighbor Yemen in order to repel attacks from the armed infiltrators, Al Arabiya correspondent in the frontiers said, adding that 40 rebels surrendered themselves and their weapons while many others have been arrested.

Saudi forces had attacked rebel positions "inside Saudi territory" around the 2,000 meter (6,600 foot) Jebel al-Dukhan mountain which straddles the border of Yemen and Saudi Arabia's Jizan province, according to Saudi Press Agency.

“The Saudi army will not be lenient, and there are calls inside the kingdom to clear its mountains from all infiltration, which is a suicide attempt of a guerrilla group," said Turki al-Sudairi, editor-in-chief of the Saudi’s major daily newspaper al-Riyadh, in an interview with Al Arabiya.

"This is a bloody play...who supports them and who wants to set the Arab region to fire?...I think they (rebels) are doing this in an attempt to get out of their impasse," al-Sudairi added.

Meanwhile, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) condemned the Houthi rebels' raids that killed a security guard and wounded others inside the Saudi territories.

A U.S. official said Late on Thursday Washington was "concerned by the expansion of the conflict along the Saudi-Yemeni border."

"It's our view that there can be no long-term military solution to the conflict between the Yemeni government and the rebels," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

"We call on all parties to the conflict to make every effort to protect civilian populations and limit damage to civilian infrastructure."

(Written by Mustapha Ajbaili)

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/11/06/90400.html

[Nizark]

The saudis must have expected this when they evacuated 3 border towns prior to the airstrikes. Also, why did the saudis bomb yemeni positions? Were they invited to do so by the yemeni gov't?

[Bolshoy]

Here is Saudi F-15s attacking the rebels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6hs...ayer_embedded#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrI4Z...layer_embedded

[IraGlacialis]

From what I have being hearing in reports about the area around the border being an invariable no-man's zone, it seemed inevitable that such a thing was to happen considering the tensions.

[Silent Reader]

Originally Posted by Nizark

The saudis must have expected this when they evacuated 3 border towns prior to the airstrikes. Also, why did the saudis bomb yemeni positions? Were they invited to do so by the yemeni gov't?

isn't it the case that the yemeni government doen't control much land beyond the capital? at least that what one always reads concerning yemen

[alexz]

The Saudi aerial attack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tzZEkJu5E

[Clockwinder]

Yemeni Houthi rebels are gonna get a severe dose of a$$-kicking here. Saudi has been buying and training on the BEST equipment and ordnance money can buy for years, and have been looking for ways to use it for just as long! Right or wrong, the Houthi are in for a pasting.

[PatricVadec]

Originally Posted by Silent Reader

isn't it the case that the yemeni government doen't control much land beyond the capital? at least that what one always reads concerning yemen

I think this is Win-Win game, Yemeni govt will be happy that Saudi bomb the rebel strong hold, waste no time for them.

[signatory]

Thanks for posting the vids!