Green Energy
- War Heating Up? Iranian Ship Convoy Moves Toward Yemen, Alarming Us Officials
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran’s support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war. Iran is sending...
- Rebels Capture Presidential Palace In Yemen
Gotta Love That IslamiShiz From the Associated Press: SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni security officials say Shiite rebels and their allies have captured the presidential palace in Aden following heavy clashes in the commercial center of this southern coastal...
- Egypt Seizes Bab El Mandeb Ahead Of Iran.. War Ahead? Lead From Behind
DEBKA: In a surprise step, Egyptian marine naval and marine forces Thursday morning, March 26, seized control of the strategic Bab El-Mandeb Straits to foil Tehran’s plans to grab this important energy shipping gateway between the Red Sea, the Gulf...
- Jihadists Lead "coup" In Yemen - Take Presidential Palace, Second Presidential Residence Under Seige
From the BBC: Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen have taken the presidential palace in country's capital Sanaa, witnesses say. Col Saleh al-Jamalani, commander of the force that guards President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, described it as a "coup". President...
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Fox: Dozens of Al Qaeda Militants Escape From Prison in Yemen SANAA, Yemen -- Security officials say 57 militants, mostly from Al Qaeda, have escaped from a prison in southern Yemen. They say the 57 were among 62 inmates from the Mukalla jail in the Hadarmout...
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“The Saudis feel they are fighting for their very existence”
Scott Atran, a Mideast analyst with Artis Research who has worked closely with U.S. government agencies as a consultant
Daily Beast:
Over the last few days, U.S. forces in Yemen have been evacuated in haste, reportedly leaving behind troves of sensitive documents.In an interview with The Daily Beast, Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, underscored the chaotic development of events on the ground in Yemen. “We’re totally out,” he told our correspondent Tim Mak. “Yemen is going to be, in the president’s own words, a ‘model,’ [but] not of success, [instead] of absolute failure of our foreign policy.”Since late last year, Tehran’s backing for the Houthi rebels has been increasingly obvious. They took control in the capital Sanaa in January, ousting President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi from his palace there, and they have been closing in on his displaced government in the southern Yemen city of Aden. Hadi is now reportedly in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.From the Saudi point of view, Iran is gaining strength in Syria, where it is the embattled Assad regime’s most important ally, in Iraq, where it is propping up the mainly Shiite central government, and now in Yemen. All of these countries are on Saudi Arabia’s borders, and, what is more, to the extent that pro-Iranian Shiite forces appear to be gaining momentum, that threatens to disrupt the fragile equilibrium in the oil-producing Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, which has a majority Shiite population. Partly because of fears the crucially important production from Saudi Arabia may be disrupted, oil prices rose dramatically on Thursday.“The Saudis are scared right now. They’re worried about Iran,” a U.S. official in contact with governments in the region told The Daily Beast. Riyadh may have notified the United States about their airstrikes, but they made it clear that they weren’t waiting for the American military to come to their aid, the official said.
- War Heating Up? Iranian Ship Convoy Moves Toward Yemen, Alarming Us Officials
Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran’s support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war. Iran is sending...
- Rebels Capture Presidential Palace In Yemen
Gotta Love That IslamiShiz From the Associated Press: SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni security officials say Shiite rebels and their allies have captured the presidential palace in Aden following heavy clashes in the commercial center of this southern coastal...
- Egypt Seizes Bab El Mandeb Ahead Of Iran.. War Ahead? Lead From Behind
DEBKA: In a surprise step, Egyptian marine naval and marine forces Thursday morning, March 26, seized control of the strategic Bab El-Mandeb Straits to foil Tehran’s plans to grab this important energy shipping gateway between the Red Sea, the Gulf...
- Jihadists Lead "coup" In Yemen - Take Presidential Palace, Second Presidential Residence Under Seige
From the BBC: Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen have taken the presidential palace in country's capital Sanaa, witnesses say. Col Saleh al-Jamalani, commander of the force that guards President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, described it as a "coup". President...
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Fox: Dozens of Al Qaeda Militants Escape From Prison in Yemen SANAA, Yemen -- Security officials say 57 militants, mostly from Al Qaeda, have escaped from a prison in southern Yemen. They say the 57 were among 62 inmates from the Mukalla jail in the Hadarmout...