Dozens more killed in Yemeni clashes

[hightime]

Yemeni troops have killed 25 rebels from the Zaidi minority in new clashes in the far north, according to the defence ministry.



Meanwhile witnesses said on Saturday that four soldiers also died.

Some 50 armed supporters of rebel preacher Husain Badr al-Din al-Huthi were also wounded when they attacked a military position north of the town of Saada with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) on Friday, the defence ministry's web site said.

Military sources said one soldier was killed and five wounded, but witnesses put the toll at four dead and four wounded.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/357F166A-C481-4481-9B13-F369DFC40191.htm

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. BTW, if no one has noticed

there's a little war going on in Yemen at the moment.

[bemildred]

2. Things not so good up in Asir from what I can tell either.

Coincidence? I think not.

[Jerseygirltoo]

3. Any info to share on Asir?

bemildred, Do you have an online source? I haven't seen anything in the news.

[bemildred]

4. Nothing useful I know of on-line,

Very hard to get information, actually. A research
library might help.

I base what I said on an article in the March/April
Utne Reader (which you can pay for online) and several
recent attacks in the Area. The book "Yemen" by Tim
McKintosh-Smith is also useful in understanding the
historical and cultural background, and in seeing why
all the political lines drawn in the sand are bullshit.

I have been poking around in the area for the last year or
so by reading various books, T. E. Lawrence, Fromkin, some
others.

"News" is really hard to come by unless there are a fair
number of dead people involved.