Jemen

AQAP says it withdrew from Mukalla to protect residents

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has published a two-page statement online confirming the group’s withdrawal from the Yemeni port city of Mukalla that occurred one week ago. AQAP members and supporters have discussed the retreat on social media in the days since, but the organization did not officially comment until its statement yesterday.


AQAP’s message is addressed to the people of Hadramout, the coastal province where Mukalla is located. The group’s explanation illustrates, once again, al Qaeda’s concern with building and preserving popular support.

The al Qaeda branch claims it was necessary to leave Mukalla in order to protect the city’s civilians.

“We only withdrew to make the enemy miss the opportunity to take the battle to your houses and markets, and your roads and mosques, for those people do not care about the believers,” the statement reads, according to a translation by the SITE Intelligence Group.

AQAP blames the Arab coalition that took over Mukalla for killing “dozens” of Muslims during its bombing campaign, which supposedly struck “civilian institutions” such as markets and a gas station. “So when we saw this, we took the initiative to stop this evil plan and halt this dirty war, and we decided to fight our enemy as we want, not as they want,” AQAP says of its withdrawal.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...ithdrew-from-mukalla-to-protect-residents.php
 
US deploys over 200 soldiers in S Yemen, stations assault ship


The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (file photo)


The United States military has deployed more than 200 US Marines in the port city of Mukalla in the central province of Hadramout, Yemeni media say.

The forces were deployed in the important seaport and oil terminal on Saturday, Yemen's Arabic-language al-Masirah news website reported.

The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer with more than 1,200 sailors and Marines as well as a group of vessels aboard were also stationed offshore in the Gulf of Aden.

Yemen’s southern coast is now under the control of US troops, who are deployed to the region under the pretext of battling al-Qaeda militants.

On Friday, an Apache helicopter and six Black Hawk choppers also arrived in the al-Anad Air Base in the southwestern province of Lahij.

The deployment of US troops comes a year after the withdrawal of its forces from Yemen. On March 21, 2015, the US evacuated its remaining forces from the airbase “due to the deteriorating security situation” a day after al-Qaeda captured the nearby city of al-Houta.

Pentagon also announced on Friday that it sent a group of its commandos to Yemen.

“The AQAP (al- Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) remains a significant security threat to the United States and to our regional partners and we welcome this effort to specifically remove AQAP from Mukalla and to degrade, disrupt and destroy AQAP in Yemen,” said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman.

Direct peace talks fail

Meanwhile, representatives of Yemen’s former regime withdrew from direct peace talks with Houthi Ansarullah movement in Kuwait. The Saudi-backed delegation said that they pulled out of the negotiations since no progress has been made so far.
Now, the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has to shift back to indirect negotiations and separate consultations. The Saudi-backed delegation has repeatedly left the negotiating table since the start of the talks on April 21.

The peace talks on Yemen entered its third week on Thursday but there has yet to be a breakthrough to establish peace as delegations trade accusations of violating the ceasefire that took effect on April 11.

The Ansarullah movement says ceasefire violations by the opposite side indicate that they are not sincere in reaching a solution to end the conflict in the Arab world's poorest country.

More than 9,500 people have been killed in more than a year of military conflict in Yemen as Saudi Arabia, which backs former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, has been incessantly bombarding areas under the control of Houthis.

The Saudi airstrikes have destroyed the infrastructure in Yemen as the impoverished nation struggles to cope with shortage of food and basic medications due to Saudi blockade of the Arab country.
 
US launched 4 airstrikes against AQAP at end of April

The US military announced that it launched four separate airstrikes against al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen in three different provinces over the span of a week at the end of April. The airstrikes coincided with the US-backed United Arab Emirates offensive against al Qaeda in southern Yemen.

US Central Command, or CENTCOM, announced the airstrikes in a press release. According to CENTCOM, 10 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters were killed and another was wounded in the operations. CENTCOM listed the four airstrikes as follows:

— An April 23 strike on April 23 [sic] killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in west-central Yemen’s Marib governorate.

— An April 25 strike in the Abyan governorate near Yemen’s southern coast killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives near Yemen’s southern coast.

— A second April 25 strike killed two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives near Azzan in central Yemen.

— An April 28 strike killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives and injured one in central Yemen’s Shabwah province.

CENTCOM said that AQAP “remains a significant threat to the region, the United States and beyond” and “has a destabilizing effect on Yemen.”

AQAP “is using the unrest in Yemen to provide a haven from which to plan future attacks against our allies as well as the US and its interests,” CENTCOM continued. In the past, the US has targeted top AQAP leaders as well as operatives who were plotting attacks on the West. But the US also launched airstrikes in support of conventional Yemeni military operations against the jihadist organization.

The US has now launched 15 airstrikes against AQAP in Yemen this year. Four of those strikes took place in April and six more in March.

The uptick in strikes coincided with AQAP’s rapid expansion of control in areas in southern Yemen since the spring of 2015. AQAP seized large areas in the southern Yemeni provinces of Abyan, Hadramout, Lahj, and Shabwah starting with the provincial capital of Mukallah in March 2015. Last month, the Unite Arab Emirates, backed by Yemeni forces and the US military, retook control of Mukallah. AQAP claimed it withdrew without a fight to protect civilians, and promised to return. AQAP is also said to have withdrawn from Lahj and its capital of Houta while putting up minimal resistance. This tactic allows AQAP to preserve its forces for future battles.

In addition to the airstrikes, the US military has committed a small number of ground forces to aid the UAE and local Yemeni forces that are battling AQAP in the south. A small number of troops are said to be aiding the UAE in Mukallah as well as Yemeni forces in Lahj, according to US News and World Report.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...4-airstrikes-against-aqap-at-end-of-april.php
 
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US military announces 3 new airstrikes in Yemen

The US military announced three previously undisclosed airstrikes that targeted al al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen over the past four months and killed 11 AQAP operatives.

US Central Command, or CENTCOM, issued a statement announcing four “counterterrorism strikes” in the Yemeni provinces of Hadramout and Shabwa between Feb. 3 and May 19.

The Feb. 3 strike killed six AQAP operatives in Shabwa, CENTCOM noted. This strike was previously recorded by The Long War Journal. Jihadists on social media claimed that Jalal Bala’idi, who is also known as Hamza al Zinjibari, was killed in the attack. Six AQAP fighters were initially reported killed in the strike, which CENTCOM confirmed. [See LWJ report, Senior AQAP commander reportedly killed in US drone strike in Yemen.

The second strike, in Hadramawt on Feb. 29, killed three al Qaeda operatives. The third strike, on March 30 in Azzan in Shabwa, killed three more AQAP fighters. The fourth strike, on May 19 again in Shabwa, killed four more AQAP operatives.

CENTCOM indicated that strikes against AQAP would continue as the group “remains a significant threat to the region, the United States and beyond” and is using Yemen as a base of operations for local and global attacks.

“Al Qaeda’s presence has a destabilizing effect on Yemen, and it is using the unrest in Yemen to provide a haven from which to plan future attacks against our allies as well as the US and its interests.”

“The US will not relent in its mission to degrade, disrupt and destroy al Qaeda and its remnants. We remain committed to defeating AQAP and denying it safe haven regardless of its location. Strikes conducted by the US in Yemen continue to diminish AQAP’s presence in the region,” CENTCOM concluded.

CENTCOM’s statement is at odds with President Barack Obama’s official policy of using drone and conventional airstrikes only as a last resort. In his 2014 speech at West Point, President Barack Obama said that the US would launch airstrikes “only when we face a continuing, imminent threat” from terrorist groups. However CENTCOM’s statement indicates the airstrikes are part of the effort to “degrade, disrupt and destroy al Qaeda.”

According to CENTCOM, the US has launched nine airstrikes against AQAP in Yemen this year.

However, The Long War Journal has recorded 18 airstrikes in 2016. The discrepancy may be due to the fact that CENTCOM may not have released all of its data. It is also possible that the CIA instead executed some of the airstrikes.

The US has ramped up strikes in Yemen this year after reducing the number from its peak of 41 in 2012, when AQAP controlled significant territory in the south. The operations were halved (26 in 2013, 23 each in 2014 and 2015) until AQAP went back on the offensive and took control of large areas in southern Yemen beginning by the end of 2015.
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/06/us-military-announces-3-new-airstrikes-in-yemen.php
 
Tankki taitaa olla m-60.

Saudi Abrams,Humvee &4x4 Army pick up,in one go destroyed by Houthis kornet ATGM- Najran 30\7\2016

 
Jemenin entinen presidentti, joka on Houthien kanssa hyvää pataa, haluaa uudistaa Venäjän kanssa Neuvostoliiton aikaiset sopimukset ja antaa sotilastukikohdat, satamat ja lentokentät venäläisten käyttöön.

Ex-pressa haluaa venäläiset hoitamaan konfliktia. Idea on ilmeisesti saatu Syyrian tapahtumista.

Saudi-Arabia tukee nykyistä maanpaossa olevaa presidenttiä. Iran taas tukee Houtheja.

Ex-president Saleh offers 'all Yemen's facilities' to Russia

In a TV interview today, Yemen's ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, appeared to invite Russian military intervention in the country's conflict. He talked of reactivating old Yemeni agreements with the Soviet Union and offfered "all the facilities" of Yemen's bases, ports and airports to Russia.

Saleh seemed to be advocating something similar to what happened in Syria, where Russia and Iran joined the conflict on the Assad regime's side under the guise of fighting terrorism. A video of the interview is here, with a transcript in Arabic here.

Saleh, who was ousted from the presidency in 2012, is allied to the Houthis who currently control the Yemeni capital and large parts of the country, especially in the north. For more than a year Saudi-led forces, who back Saleh's exiled successor, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, have been bombing Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. Meanwhile the Houthis, who have some Iranian backing, have attacked Saudi territory in the border area.

Talks in Kuwait aimed at ending the war recently collapsed. Separately from the Houthi-Saleh-Hadi conflict there are frequent attacks in Yemen by Islamist militants.

In the Russian TV interview, Saleh described Russia as "the closest kin to us", adding that it has "a positive attitude" in the UN Security Council.

Saleh continued:

"We extend our hands to Russia. We have agreements with the Russian Federation which were with the Soviet Union. The legitimate heir to the Soviet Union is the Russian Federation, we are ready to activate these treaties and agreements that were between us and the Soviet Union.

"We agree on a principle, which is the struggle against terrorism ... We extend our hands and offer all the facililties, and the conventions and treaties ... We offer them in our bases, in our airports and in our ports – ready to provide all facilities to the Russian Federation."
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http://al-bab.com/blog/2016/08/ex-president-saleh-offers-all-yemens-facilities-russia

Edit: Reuters juttu samasta aiheesta.
Sun Aug 21, 2016 2:18pm EDT
Yemen's ex-president says could work with Russia to 'fight terrorism'

A newly-formed governing council in Yemen could work with Russia to "fight terrorism" by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country's military bases, Yemen's former president said on Sunday.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, a former counter-terrorism ally of the U.S. who was toppled by mass protests in 2011, told state-owned channel Russia 24 that Yemen was ready to grant Moscow access to air and naval bases.

"In the fight against terrorism we reach out and offer all facilities. Our airports, our ports... We are ready to provide this to the Russian Federation," Saleh said in an interview in Sanaa.

The ex-strongman may lack the clout to implement such an offer. But officials from the party he heads now run a political council that controls much of the country along with the Houthi movement allied to Iran.

For the first time last week Iran let Russian jets take off from its territory to bomb armed groups in Syria.

Russia is the only major country that maintains a diplomatic presence in Yemen where a 16-month war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels has killed over 6,500 people and raised the prospect of famine in the Arab World's poorest country.

The war has allowed Islamist militants including al Qaeda and the Islamic State to flourish, even though the United States has for years launched drone strikes against groups in Yemen.

Russia abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution in 2015 that imposed an arms embargo on the Houthi rebels.

Moscow's relations with Yemen date back decades and until the break-up of the USSR, thousands of Soviet military advisers and trainers worked in the formerly-independent south.

On Saturday tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied in the capital to show support for the Houthi-led bloc as the head of the group's new governing council vowed to form a full government in the coming days.

In an apparent response to the Houthi show of force, ambassadors from the G18 group of nations, including Russia, that has backed U.N. peace talks to end Yemen's civil war issued a statement condemning "unconstitutional and unilateral actions in Sanaa."

(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari, Writing by Tom Finn; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
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Alkaa jenkeillä olla piä kipiä tuossa hullunmyllyssä. Vaan on siinä Putellakin tenkkapoo että mitä ja miten tuohon vastaisi.
 
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Kiirusta pukkaa pojilla.... rapatessa roiskuu.
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Saudeilla ei ole ihan mennyt putkeen viimepäivinä kaikilla rintamilla, houthien tehtyä hyökkäyksen rajan yli saudit pakenivat paniikissa ja erilaista aseistusta ja materiaalia jäi houthi-taistelijoiden käsiin:

https://twitter.com/x/status/769429008157114368

Eilen tehtiin ohjus-/raketti-isku Saudeihin houthien toimesta jollekin öljynjalostamolle/isohkolle pumppuasemalle tjsp - melkoinen tulipalo ja mitä ilmeisimmin ihan kohtalaiset aineelliset vahingot.

Kun sota kääntyy tähän suuntaan niin ei lainkaan ihme, että yksi jos toinen taho haluaa vetäytyä ja jättää saudit sotimaan omaa sotaansa.

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Saudien kansalliskaartin LAV palaa ja räjähtää näyttävästi houthien käsittelyssä.

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Toinen LAV tuhoutuu kolaroinnin jälkeen. Kuvastaa hyvin Saudi-Arabian armeijan tasoa.

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Jemenissä käynnissä oleva sota on verisempi mitä tähän mennessä on arvioitu, YK:n arvioon perustuen:

"At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war, the United Nations on Tuesday, approaching double the estimates of more than 6,000 cited by officials and aid workers for much of 2016.

The war pits the Iran-allied Houthi group and supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is supported by an alliance of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia.

The new toll is based on official information from medical facilities in Yemen, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Jamie McGoldrick told a news conference in the capital Sanaa. It might rise as some areas had no medical facilities, and people were often buried without official records.

The United Nations human rights office said last week that 3,799 civilians have been killed in the conflict, with air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition responsible for some 60 percent of deaths.

McGoldrick gave no breakdown on civilian casualties, adding the conflict has displaced three million Yemenis and forced 200,000 to seek refuge abroad. The United Nations had information that 900,000 of the displaced intended to try to return to their homes.

"This is a big challenge, especially in areas still experiencing conflict," McGoldrick said.

Some 14 million of Yemen's 26 million population needed food aid and 7 million were suffering from food insecurity.

McGoldrick said the human situation in Yemen was "tragic" "Humanitarian work alone cannot solve these problems," he said.

U.N.-sponsored peace talks ended earlier this month without agreement, and without an agreement for a new round.

The collapse of negotiations was followed by stepped-up fighting across Yemen.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said after talks in Saudi Arabia last week that the United States, Gulf Arab states and the United Nations had agreed on a new push for peace.

He said the new talks would try to twin a proposal for the Houthis to withdraw from cities they seized since 2014 with setting up an inclusive government.

(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Sami Aboudi; Editing by William Maclean and John Stonestreet)". (lähde: http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINKCN1150W4?irpc=932)

Kun katsoo tuota saudien "sotimista", niin enpä ihmettele vaikka siviiliuhreja alkaisi tulla entistä enemmän. Kun eivät saa houtheja nujerrettua rintamalla niin sikäläiseen kulttuuriin sopii oivallisesti se, että ryhdytään kurmoottamaan siviilejä minkä ehtii - jos ei muuta niin "silmä silmästä - hammas hampaasta" tyyliin.

vlad
 
Tietojen mukaan UAE:n alusta on tulitettu houthien toimesta Jemenin rannikolla, lyhyitä videoita jo löytyy. UAE:n ilmoituksen mukaan alus vaurioitunut, ei henkilövahinkoja - mikä on sitten totuus?

Kyseessä tämä "paatti":

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vlad kirjoitti:
Tietojen mukaan UAE:n alusta on tulitettu houthien toimesta Jemenin rannikolla, lyhyitä videoita jo löytyy. UAE:n ilmoituksen mukaan alus vaurioitunut, ei henkilövahinkoja - mikä on sitten totuus?

Kyseessä tämä "paatti":

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Kolmiminuuttinen video julkaistu:


Epäilenpä, että UAE:n ilmoitus vain aineellisista vaurioista ei pidä paikkaansa, sen verran rajut tulipalot aluksella raivoavat ja kohtuullisen mittavilta (epäselvän videon perusteella) vauriot vaikuttavat.

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Unohdettu sota: puolitoista vuotta käynnissä ollut Jemenin sisällissota on lähes unohdettu kansainvälisessä mediassa, vaikka taistelut ovat käyneet kiivaina huthi-kapinallisten ja Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadin hallituksen joukkojen kanssa, joita tukee Saudi-Arabian johtaman kansainvälinen koalitio.

Lusikkansa sopassa on myös Arabian niemimaan al-Qaedalla sekä ns. Islamilaisella valtiolla eli ISIS-järjestöllä: kummallakin terroristijärjestöllä on Jemenissa omat tukialueensa.

Kansainvälisen koalition johtomaan Saudi-Arabian sotilaalliset tappiot ovat Jemenissä olleet ilmeisen raskaat. Elokuussa julkaistun Yhdysvaltain ulkoministeriön päätöksen mukaan Saudi-Arabialle myydään 153 uutta M1 Abrams -taistelupanssarivaunua. Dokumentissa mainitaan kuin sivuhuomautuksena, että näistä 20 on "taisteluvahinkoja korvaavia yksiköitä".

Jemenin kapinalliset ovat onnistuneet tuhoamaan iranilaisilla panssarintorjunta-aseilla oletettua usamman maailman vahvimpana pidettyä panssarivaunua.

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http://www.defenseone.com/business/2016/08/us-tank-deal-exposes-saudi-losses-yemen-war/130623/
Saudi Losses in Yemen War Exposed by US Tank Deal AUGUST 9, 2016
 
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