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Yemen update 12/09\2015.. Saudi Arabia, Allies Exhausted
6 Colombian, 3 Sudanese, Australian mercenaries killed in Yemen
Yemeni Forces Kill 14 Blackwater Mercenaries in Ta’iz
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The Yemeni army and popular forces killed over a dozen Saudi-hired Blackwater militias in an attack on a military base in the province of Ta’iz.
A sum of 14 Blackwater mercenaries, including a British, a French, an Australian and six colombians were killed in an attack on Al-Amri military base in Zobab region in Ta’iz province near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Arabic-language Al-Masira news channel quoted an unnamed military source as saying on Wednesday.
After pulling out its troops from Yemen, the UAE recruited and sent Colombian forces to Yemen to replace its regular troops.
Yemeni Army Spokesman Sharaf Luqman has said that the Blackwater forces dispatched to Yemen comprise Al-Nusra, the ISIL and Al-Qaeda terrorists.
The UAE had previously sent mercenaries from Latin America, specially Colombia, to Yemen without prior coordination with Saudi Arabia.
The United Arab Emirates has quietly built an army of Latin American mercenaries to fight for Yemen’s deposed government in a proxy war.
In a program launched by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and now run by the Emirati military, the force of 450 Latin American troops – mostly made up of Colombian fighters, but also including Chileans, Panamanians and Salvadorans – adds a new and surprising element to the already chaotic mix of forces from foreign governments, armed tribes, terrorist networks and Yemeni militias that are currently embroiled in the Middle Eastern nation, Fox News reported.
It seems there are also going to be hundreds of other foreign mercenaries — Sudanese and Eritrean soldiers — brought into Yemen.
Yemeni Forces Resume Retaliatory Attacks against Saudi-Backed Militants
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Yemen’s army and Ansarullah fighters killed scores of the Saudi-backed militants in the Yemeni province of Jawf on Wednesday.
The Yemeni forces foiled an attack by militants loyal to the fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, in Jawf Province.
At least 20 militants were killed and eight of their armored vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
Ansarullah fighters also killed a number of Saudi-backed militiamen in the province of Ta’iz.
Meanwhile, the Yemeni forces fired missiles at the al-Sadis military camp in the Saudi Province of Najran.
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Yemen’s ‘Cry’ Missiles Destroy Saudi Military Bases in Jizan Province
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The Yemeni army and popular forces launched new missile attacks on the Saudi military bases in the province of Jizan with their new home-made missiles named ‘Cry’.
The Yemeni missiles destroyed al-Ain al-Harreh and al-Salah military bases in Jizan province, inflicting heavy losses on the Saudi army.
The Yemeni army and popular forces also hit al-Ramzeh military center in Jizan province, killing tens of Saudi military men and their vehicles.
The Yemeni forces also hit several Saudi military centers in the Southern parts of Al-Khuba region.
On Saturday, the Yemeni army and popular forces destroyed a large number of military posts and centers in three provinces in Southern Saudi Arabia.
The Yemeni forces’ missile and artillery fire has destroyed tens of Saudi military sites in Najran, Jizan and Asir provinces in the last three days.
A large number of Saudi troops have been killed and many more wounded in the Yemeni forces’ retaliatory attacks on their positions.
Also on Saturday, FNA dispatches said that the Yemeni army and popular forces continued their nonstop advances on the Saudi soil and seized several military bases and sites in Saudi Arabia’s Southern provinces after heavy clashes with the kingdom’s troops.
The Yemeni forces captured a number of Saudi military bases in Jizan province, Yemeni Army Commander Ebrahim Moussa al-Hamdani told FNA.
Al-Hamdani noted that the army and popular forces also seized the Riyadh government’s strategic military positions in Najran province after several hours of clashes with the Saudi forces, seizing heavy machinery and a large cache of weapons and military tools, including mortar-launchers.
Last Wednesday, Yemeni army spokesman Sharaf Luqman said that the army and the popular forces were advancing deep inside Saudi Arabia and capturing more military bases in the Southern parts of the kingdom.
“The Yemeni forces have managed to inflict heavy losses on the Saudi enemy inside Saudi Arabia,” Luqman said.
He reiterated that the Yemeni army and the popular forces were having high morale to fight the enemy, and said, “The military operation to capture new military bases of Saudi Arabia is underway.”
Luqman said that the Saudi enemy has resorted to airstrikes which will surely fail.
On December 1, the Yemeni army and popular committees took control of several more military bases in Najran province after they captured several strategic military centers in three Saudi provinces.
The Yemeni army and popular committees captured three Saudi military bases in al-Shurfa area in Najran.
Earlier reports said the Yemeni forces took control of a military camp in the Saudi border region of Najran, destroying six military vehicles.
Sources also said the Yemeni forces destroyed 2 Abrams tanks, 3 Bradley armored vehicles and 3 bulldozers in Najran province.
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Saudi Arabia, Allies Exhausted with Futile Aggressions in Yemen
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The Saudi-led aggressors have become frustrated and disappointed with over nine months of war of attrition in Yemen which has brought them no result despite spending billions of dollars on military hardware.
Not only the Saudi leaders, but the US and other Arab countries in the Saudi-led coalition are tried with the prolonged war against the Yemeni people and revolutionary forces.
Some US decision-making centers in the US have blatantly warned Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman that the time is up for the Saudi regime in Yemen.
The Saudi officials have held several rounds of talks with UN special envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed in Riyadh to find ways to get out of the Yemen quagmire. The Saudi regime has now given up its previous preconditions for settling the Yemen crisis.
Meantime, the lengthy war has worn off patience among Riyadh’s allies. Reports said last week that gaps have widened between Saudi Arabia and its allies, specially the UAE, over the wealth and resources of Yemen’s Southern provinces.
On Monday, a Yemeni politician said the Emirati government had plotted ISIL’s rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack that killed the Aden governor.
“The UAE army has played a key role in the assassination of Mohammed Saad and the ISIL has just carried out the terrorist attack,” Naji Hessam al-Tayri told FNA.
He noted that the governor of Aden was a supporter of Mansour Hadi and he implemented the orders of the Saudi army.
“The widening differences between Saudi Arabia and the UAE have resulted in the recent surge of terrorist attacks and massacre of people,” he added.
The UAE had previously sent mercenaries from Latin America, specially Colombia, to Yemen without prior coordination with Saudi Arabia.
The United Arab Emirates has quietly built an army of Latin American mercenaries to fight for Yemen’s deposed government in a proxy war.
In September, a Latin American news paper disclosed that at least 800 Colombian nationals could soon be fighting alongside the Saudi-led coalition against Yemenis, with dozens likely already in the war-torn Middle Eastern country.
Over 800 Colombian mercenaries could take up front-line positions in Yemen under the Saudi command, the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo said in a report.
The troops are expected to be involved in an ongoing offensive against the revolutionary forces, which currently hold Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.
Hundreds of Colombian nationals are fighting alongside the Saudi-led forces in Yemen, the report further added.
The troops include former Colombian soldiers fighting under contract with Saudi Arabia.
The first group of just under 100 Colombian troops arrived in Yemen earlier this month. The troops were set to arrive in the Southern port city of Aden.
On Friday, a well-known source in the royal family disclosed that the Riyadh government’s invasion of Yemen has cost the kingdom tens of billions of dollars and the lives of over 2,000 Saudi soldiers killed in combat with Yemeni army and popular forces over the past 9 months.
“Saudi Arabia has spent over 200 billion Saudi rials (over $60 billion) for its aggression against Yemen in the past nine months,” Mujtahid wrote in his latest tweets.
Mujtahid is a Saudi political activist who is believed to be a member of or have a well-connected source in the royal family.
He noted that the Saudi army has lost over 2,000 Saudi soldiers in the war with Yemen, while over 4,850 more have been wounded.
“The daily cost of the war for Saudi Arabia is 750 million Saudi rials (over $200 million) which is spent on purchasing bullets and for logistics,” Mujtahid said.
Since March, the Saudis have led a bombing campaign in Yemen killing thousands of civilians on the pretext of targeting the revolutionary forces.
Human Rights Watch has said Saudi “airstrikes have indiscriminately killed and injured civilians” in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a and elsewhere.
In November, the US State Department approved the sale of $1.29 billion in smart bombs to Saudi Arabia, despite reports that the kingdom has killed and injured civilians in airstrikes against rebels in Yemen.
The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), which facilitates foreign arms sales, notified lawmakers on November 13 that the sale had been approved.
The approval cleared the way for the sale to go through – that is, unless lawmakers block it in the next 30 days, which is a rare move.
The sale included 22,000 smart and general purpose bombs, including 1,000 GBU-10 Paveway II Laser Guided Bombs, and more than 5,000 Joint Direct Attack Munitions kits to turn older bombs into precision-guided weapons using GPS signals.
The bombs are in part intended to replenish Saudi inventories that have been depleted by its air operations against the Yemeni civilians.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 259 days now to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 7,130 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/12/yemen-update-12092015-saudi-arabia.html
