Operation 'Decisive Storm' | Saudi lead coalition operations in Yemen - Updates & Discussions.

[SipahSalar]

It will be impossible to stop Houthi advance without ground operations. Look at Iraq, ISIS has been able to continue ground operations unhindered despite 8 months of US airstrikes.

 

[Surenas]

Many scary tweets tonight from people in Yemen describing big explosions, bursting doors, breaking windows, fires. Please stay safe.

https://twitter.com/x/status/581626508994805760

We have not experienced such heavey bombings in Sanaa. We are seeing the death w every bomb. #Decisive_Storm#Yemen

https://twitter.com/x/status/581622988501430273

Now hiding in basement & my son blurts: "I hate them, why do they always wake me up from sleep scared" Sana'a #Yemen

https://twitter.com/x/status/581621366362800128

Seems like the Saudis are getting desperate. The Houthis are not backing off and the people are not demanding political concessions.

 

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You can bomb, kill, destroy as much as you can, you'll never take control of Sanaa from the Yemeni's.

Yes in 2006 the Jews bomb hard Beirut but when the ground phase star the history change.

They can bomb a lot but if they no deployed grounds troops this will be a pathetic fail for them.

 

[Surenas]

Yemen Houthi rebels advance despite Saudi-led air strikes

Reuters - Yemen's Houthi rebels made broad gains in the country's south and east on Friday despite a second day of Saudi-led air strikes meant to check the Iranian-backed militia's efforts to overthrow President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Shi'ite Muslim Houthi fighters and allied army units gained their first foothold on Yemen's Arabian Sea coast by seizing the port of Shaqra 100km (60 miles) east of Aden, residents told Reuters.

Explosions and crackles of small gunfire rang out across Aden late on Friday as Houthis made a push on the southern port city's airport, a witness said.

The advances threaten Hadi's last refuge in Yemen and potentially undermine the air campaign to support him.

The spokesman for the Saudi-led operation, Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri, told a news conference in Riyadh that defending the Aden government was the campaign's "main objective".

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But the Houthis and allied army units seized the southern town of Shaqra in Abyan province on Friday, gaining access to the Arabian Sea, residents said.

Their entry into the city means they control most land routes to Aden and can block tribal fighters trying to come in to reinforce Hadi's troops.

Residents said dozens of pickup trucks loaded with tribal fighters have reached the town of Mudyah and were expected to clash with the Houthi forces based in Shaqra and the town of Lodar.

During a week of intense fighting, the Houthis have taken the Red Sea port of al-Mukha to Aden's northwest, and the city's northern outskirts, suggesting Aden is danger, despite the air strikes against the Houthis.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/28/us-yemen-security-idUSKBN0ML0YC20150328

 

[الأعرابي]

Incompetent Saudis.

Tweets? Are Iranians really that desperate?

I'd post pics of your dead Houthis killed by Yemenies in Adan but it's against forum rules

 

[Hasbara Buster]

It will be impossible to stop Houthi advance without ground operations. Look at Iraq, ISIS has been able to continue ground operations unhindered despite 8 months of US airstrikes.

Do you know how many "airstrikes" the U.S. and their allies are conducting in Syria on a daily basis? It's beyond laughable. There is absolutely no intention to eliminate ISIS... it's just a game for them.

 

[Surenas]

Despite Saudi-led airstrikes, Shiite rebels continue to advance in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen — Shiite rebels reached the outskirts of the key southern city of Aden on Friday, boldly defying a bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia that is seeking to push them back and carve out a protected space for the country’s beleaguered president.

The drive by the rebels, known as Houthis, indicates they have not been intimidated by a growing Saudi-led force of at least 10 nations that have pledged aircraft and ships in a major operation to stop the insurgents. The U.S. government is contributing intelligence and logistics aid to the Saudi-led offensive.

The fighting reflects how this impoverished Arabian Peninsula country may be turning into a battleground between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, the region’s foremost powers. The Saudis accuse the Iranians of arming the Houthi rebels.

For the first time in the two-day operation, Saudi officials sketched out the scope of their military operation, indicating they might not try to completely defeat the Houthi rebels but instead would seek to safeguard enough territory for President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to return from exile. He had established a government in Aden in February after the rebels toppled his administration in Sanaa, the capital. He fled Aden for Saudi Arabia this week as the insurgents moved in.

“I want to confirm that the operation itself has as its main objective to protect the government in Aden,” Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asseri, a Saudi military spokesman, said at a news conference in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, according to the Reuters news agency.

Anis Mansour, editor in chief of the city’s Huna Aden newspaper, said the rebels seized a government compound Friday in Dar Saad, about five miles from the center of Aden. They also took control of the city’s airport, he said. Rebels and pro-government forces have battled over the airport for days.

The Houthi attacks occurred even as the Saudi-led forces conducted a new wave of bombings. Local news media and residents in Sanaa said the airstrikes Friday targeted military installations controlled by the rebels as well as by forces loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh, the longtime Yemeni autocrat who was forced from power by a popular uprising that started in 2011. He is widely considered to have thrown his support behind the Houthis.

Despite Saudi-led airstrikes, Shiite rebels continue to advance in Yemen - The Washington Post

 

[/_/]

Zionists wahhabis Saudis are so fucking scared because they are only good doing suicide cars bombs for killed others Arabs or lashed women for drive cars.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Tweets? Are Iranians really that desperate?

I'd post pics of your dead Houthis killed by Yemenies in Adan but it's against forum rules

An Albanian Arab? A lot of confused people here, you don't have to become an Arab in order to become a "sunni" you know. Why support an extremely backward and oppressive U.S. client state like Saudi Arabia? Just because you are Sunni, right?

 

[Surenas]

Elite Iranian guards training Yemen's Houthis: U.S. officials

(Reuters) - The United States is increasingly concerned about training by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards for the Houthi rebels in Yemen, where the Shi'ite militias continue to make territorial gains despite airstrikes by neighboring Saudi Arabia.

U.S. officials said Tehran's direct involvement with the Houthis was limited but that U.S. intelligence assessments had concluded that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel were training and equipping Houthi units.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss security matters, expressed concern that the IRGC's mission could include training the Houthis to use advanced weaponry they acquired after seizing Yemeni military bases.

Saudi Arabia, which launched aerial bombardments of Houthi forces this week, has said the militia was receiving extensive backing from Iran, the kingdom's regional rival.

"We see ... Iran playing a large role in supporting the Houthis," Saudi ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir told reporters on Thursday.

"There are Iranian advisers advising them and Hezbollah operatives advising them," Jubeir said. Lebanon-based Hezbollah is closely allied with Tehran.

Asked about Jubeir’s accusations on Friday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters: "We’ve expressed our previous concerns about the destabilizing impact that Iran is having on this particular situation. We continue to have those concerns."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/us-yemen-security-houthis-iran-idUSKBN0MN2MI20150327?irpc=932

 

[gangsta_rap]

The outcome of all this won't be good. In the end the Yemeni government will be weak and with no rival groups to oppose them, al-queda in Yemen may fill the power vacuum. That's a bad ending where EVERONE loses.

 

[الأعرابي]

An Albanian Arab? A lot of confused people here, you don't have to become an Arab in order to become a "Sunni" you know? Why support a backward and highly oppressive U.S. client state like Saudi Arabia? Just because you are Sunni, right?

And it seems you have to become a Persian in order to become a Shiites, why support such a backward terror sponsoring state like Iran? Just because you're a Shiite right?

 

[Surenas]

Tweets? Are Iranians really that desperate?

I'd post pics of your dead Houthis killed by Yemenies in Adan but it's against forum rules

Cry me a river. The Houthis are advancing, and no is stoping them. Let's see if the Saudis have the balls to put boots on the ground. Or are they too cowardice and order their client-states like Pakistan and Egypt to intervene? Who knows, but anyone who is thinking of invading Yemen will get their asses kicked.

 

[Gasoline]

Zionists wahhabis Saudis are so fucking scared because they are only good doing suicide cars bombs for killed others Arabs or lashed women for drive cars.

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[/_/]

Do you know how many "airstrikes" the U.S. and their allies are conducting in Syria on a daily basis? It's beyond laughable. There is absolutely no intention to eliminate ISIS... it's just a game for them.

The Jews launch 5000 Strikes in 2006 in Lebanon and their ground operation fail (Battle of Ayta ash-Shab)

And the Jews are so fucking cowards yes but they have a lot combat experience and they failed.

The Wahhabis Saudis have none military experience just see them now Obongo need doing himselft the rescue Missions Saudis alone can't I repeat again they (Wahhabis) are only good making cars bombs, beheading unarmed people and lashing womens for drive cars LOL

Saudis Wahhabis are giving a lot money to the Egyptian Sisi toadface for do the ground operation because they are scared.