One
million Yemeni fighters prepare to invade Saudi Arabia
File photo of Houthis in Yemen
26
November, 2014
A
million Yemeni tribal fighters are gathering near the border with
Saudi Arabia in preparation to invade the Kingdom,
Iran’s Kayhan newspaper
has reported.
The
newspaper quoted what it described as “informed sources” in Sanaa
as saying that “the political forces and the tribes of Yemen
announced a general alarm to mobilise one million Yemeni fighters
near the border with Saudi Arabia to invade its territory and curb
its aggression on Yemen.”
The
paper quoted a spokesman for the Yemeni army, Brigadier General
Sharaf Ghalib Luqman, as claiming that his army has captured Saudi,
Emirati, Bahraini and Qatari fighters in the province of Marib and
will present them to the media in the coming days.
It
added that Yemeni army units and Houthi rebels have besieged two
Qatari battalions in Marib and that Qatar has appealed to Saudi
Arabia not to bomb the region to ensure its citizens will not be
victims of “friendly fire”.
Remarking
on the Houthi attack on the Safer camp in Marib, Kayhan reported that
Saudi Arabia has moved all soldiers from the base into its territory
after the killing of 300 Emirati, Saudi and Bahraini fighters.
Matthieu Aikins: Yemen and the Middle East
Matthieu
Aikins reports from the Middle East and South Asia for a number of
magazines and his investigative work exposing war crimes in
Afghanistan won him the George Polk Award and the Medill Medal for
Courage in Journalism. Currently he is a Schell Fellow at the Nation
Institute.
He
talks with Kim Hill about the 'forgotten war' and escalating
humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
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