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On December 30th, a large explosion struck the airport in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden.
This became a sort of “greeting ceremony” for the arrival of the new “unity government” that arrived to purportedly lead the country.
Yemen’s Interior Ministry said least 26 people were killed and more than 50 were wounded in the blast.
Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has sworn in a new government that was formed thanks to a power-sharing deal brokered by Saudi Arabia.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the government is entirely a Saudi puppet one.
The new government, headed by Prime Minister Maeen Abdul Malik, represents Yemen’s northern and southern areas with equal numbers of members from each region.
The formation of the government was part of the Saudi Arabia-backed Riyadh Agreement, signed between the Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in November 2019 to seek an end to military clashes between forces of both parties.
The Houthis were not part of the agreement and the fight against them continues.
Regardless, the source of the explosion was not immediately clear and no group claimed responsibility for attacking the airport. No one on the government plane was hurt.
Hours after the attack, a second explosion was heard around Aden’s Maasheq presidential palace where the cabinet members including Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik, as well as the Saudi ambassador to Yemen, had been taken to safely, residents and local media said.
It was unclear what caused the second blast and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Abdulmalik condemned the airport attacj as “treacherous” and “cowardly”.
“This treacherous, cowardly and terrorist attack, places the government at the heart of its responsibilities, which is the task of ending the coup, restoring the state, spreading stability and the recovery of our country,” Abdulmalik said.
An AFP correspondent at the airport said he heard two explosions. “At least two explosions were heard as the cabinet members were leaving the aircraft,” the correspondent said.
As the easiest accusation, Yemen’s Information Minister Moammar Al-Eryani blamed the attack on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, adding that all the members of the government were safe.
“We assure our great people that members of the government are fine, and we assure you that the cowardly terrorist attack by the Iran-supported Huthi militia will not deter us from carrying out our patriotic duty,” he said on Twitter.
Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed, who was on the plane, tweeted that he had survived the attack and was safe.
“The cowardly terrorist act that targeted Aden airport is part of the war being waged against the Yemeni state and our great people,” the tweet read, “and it will only increase our insistence on fulfilling our duties until the coup is ended and the state restored and stability, mercy for the martyrs and healing for the wounded.”
Riyadh, for its part, has condemned the airport attack.
“The targeting of the Yemeni government upon its arrival at Aden airport is a cowardly terrorist act targeting all the Yemeni people, their security, stability and their daily life, ” Saudi ambassador to Yemen Mohammed al-Jabir tweeted,” and confirms the extent of disappointment and confusion that the makers of death and destruction have reached as a result of the success of the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement and the formation of the Yemeni government and its initiation to start its tasks to serve the Yemeni people.”
The UAE Foreign Ministry issued a similar statement, saying Abu Dhabi “strongly condemned” what it called a “cowardly terrorist attack” and a “sinister project” meant to destabilize the country.
“The Ministry stressed that the continuation of these attacks illustrates the nature of the danger facing the region from the Houthi coup, and the efforts of these militias to undermine security and stability in the region,” the statement said, ” stressing that the Arab coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to support and support everything that achieves the interest of the brotherly Yemeni people and contributes to its stability and its security.”
State Department spokesperson Cale Brown said the U.S. too “strongly condemns” the Aden attacks. The US, however, didn’t blame the Houthis or anybody else for the attack.
He noted that the timing and apparent target of the attacks “once again demonstrate the malicious intent of those trying to destabilize Yemen.”
“Such attacks will not stop or undermine efforts to bring a lasting peace that the Yemeni people deserve,” he added. “These violent acts must end, and the perpetrators must be brought to justice. The United States supports the legitimate government of Yemen and stands with the people of Yemen as they work towards a better future for all Yemenis.”
The Houthis, however, categorically denied responsibility for the attack in the Saudi-proclaimed capital of Yemen.
The real capital of Yemen – Sana’a is under Houthi control.
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Abdulelah Hajar, a veteran Yemeni diplomat who serves now as adviser to the presidency of the Houthi-led Supreme Political Council, offered his condolences for the victims and issued a thinly-veiled allegation against Saudi Arabia.
“It does not require intelligence or analysis to know that whoever undertook the criminal terrorist act by bombing Aden airport is the same one who undertook the aggression against Yemen six years ago and killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of innocent Yemenis by airstrikes and imposed siege by land, air and sea,” Hajar wrote on Facebook.
Supreme Political Council member Mohammed al-Bukhaiti also put the blame on Saudi Arabia and its ongoing dispute with the Southern Transitional Council, a group backed by the UAE, which attempted to capture Aden, and more regions in Yemen throughout 2020, after the power-sharing deal had been signed.
Others in Yemen’s pro-Houthi leadership blamed the UAE-supported faction, which violently split with the government of exiled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour in August of last year.
“In fact, the conflict in Aden and in the various Yemeni governorates occupied by the coalition of aggression against Yemen has been raging for a long time, and it is not only a political conflict, but rather a military conflict and a large-scale war, and the Riyadh Agreement came as an imposition from Saudi Arabia on the parties, especially those that follow the UAE,” Nasreddin Amer, Deputy Secretary of the pro-Houthi Information for the Center said.
Amer, who also serves as head of the Ansar Allah Media Center, said the Southern Transitional Council likely lashed out of frustration over the agreement’s terms.
“They have no desire for the implementation of this agreement and, as a result of their fear of Saudi pressure, they turned to using another method of conflict,” Amer said. “This other method is what happened today in Aden, as the fire came out from under the ashes into the open, and the government they wanted to be a solution turned into a problem and a crisis.”
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It is most likely that the Houthis did not carry out the attack, but it was another faction, and potentially the Southern Transitional Council who want to have more influence over Yemen.
As such, the incident itself is showing of how weak Saudi Arabia’s control is over the entire situation, and it is evidenced by how poorly it is doing in clashes against the Houthis.
The Saudi-chosen and protected capital of Yemen was subject to attacks, which killed civilians, and incidents such as these are not exactly uncommon. After all, it should be reminded that earlier in 2020 the STC captured Aden and there had to be negotiations for them to loosen their control over the city.
As of the end of 2020, the conflict in Yemen turned into the full disaster for the Saudi Kingdom and its allies. The Saudis not only failed to achieve a military victory in the conflict, but in fact appeared to be on the brink of losing it. The Saudi-led coalition collapsed and the only influential player formally allied to the Saudis that openly participates in the war in the UAE. At the same time, relations between Saudi Arabia and the UAE were also complicated. Both states pretend on the diplomatic and economic leadership on the Arabian peninsula as well as support different factions in Yemen. Until recently, the Saudi-backed Hadi government and the UAE-backed STC were in the state of open conflict. The formation of the new Aden-based government that arrived in Yemen from Saudi Arabia on December 30 was intended to contribute to at least some stability in the coalition-occupied part of the country. Nonetheless, it seems that far from everybody is interested in this.
Taking into account that the Houthis denied their responsibility, the attack may have been carried out by the STC or affiliated structures. The STC reasonably considers it a more military capable force than the Saudi-backed Hadi government and repeatedly demonstrated this already. Other suspects are ISIS and al-Qaeda that enjoy the freedom of actions in the state of chaos established in southern Yemen.
Another factor is the advance of the US-Israel policy in the Middle East. Public rapprochement of Arab monarchies and Israel strengthened the positions of Iran as the only country which not only declares itself as Palestine’s and Islamic world’s defender, but actually puts words into practice. Saudi Arabia’s leadership will particularly suffer in terms of loss of popularity among its own population, already damaged by the failed war in Yemen and intensifying confrontation with UAE, both of which are already using their neighbor’s weakness to lay a claim to leadership on the Arabian Peninsula.
In these conditions, the further setbacks in the Yemeni conflict not only undermines the regional positions of Saudi Arabia, but also instigates negative tendencies and political tensions within the Kingdom itself.
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Frankly, the Saudi assholes are as successful at installing a puppet government in Aden as their Zionist masters are at “expelling Iran” from Syria for the last decade. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE ANSARALLAH!
Bravo to that.
Happy New Year.
Why isn’t the nation split up into north and south as it used to be? Wouldn’t this potentially solve the problem?
Maybe. The sticking point would be that large, sparsely populated area in the east w/most of the oil fields.
N. Yemen is densely populated, they’d argue, ‘should we be deprived of wealth and turned into a gaza strip?’. It’s a sticky problem. A coalition govt that found a way to share the wealth and give each region autonomy is probably the best but they cannot work it out as long as the Saudis are forcing their final solution on them with the backing of Israel and the U.S.
What inability just few years back Russia was not able to defend Damascus from militant attacks and it happened daily. Yemen is in similar phase of civil war.
Hadi and the Southern separatist union will fight until the bitter end. They will recover every inch of Yemen
saudis???? saudis puppet government??????
you 99% morons
there is no saudia arabia there is no saudi puppet government in jemen
the fake non existent so called state is nothing more than a forward position of british zionism.
they created the house of saud the fake government in jemen is a puppet government ran by british/zionists
as in bahrain/UAE….same modus operandi
so stop wasting your energy on the non existent saudi arabia where their so called KING or crown prince, have to ask british intelligence for permission to take a shit.
go after the head!!
and the head sits in london.
Your existing is a crime in Yemen and it will be undone by the saudis and allies. War is upon you until the last one of you dies. You will find in Hadi-Southern separatist with economical support that they indeed are people who don’t tire from war this is just the beginning
Sounds like a great plan. They always sound like great plans – until their adversaries get a bullet in the neck from a shoeless 16-year-old Houthi 600 yards away using the iron sights on his grandpa’s Mosin-Nagant.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE will run out of laser JDAMs and Sudanese mercs well before they run out of money. STC would rather reunite with the North than let the UAE buy up every last bit of Yemen they haven’t outright stole (Socotra comes to mind, the coastline and ports, etc.). Southern Yemeni will plug their noses and take handouts from the smelly UAE chimps for now. The other side of that ‘bargain’ – obeying their UAE benefactors – isn’t the Yemeni way. They’re just ripping off the rich GCC while they can. When the smoke clears and the Saudis and UAE have given up their Vietnam and left, the STC will sit down with the Houthis for a chew of khat, let the old tribal leaders argue a bit, then figure out how to run Yemen. They got 6000 years of history on their side.
No mercs nor Saudis or UAE ground forces needed Yemenis vs Yemenis fair fight
Psychopathic Yemeni small-time thug tribal leaders, otherwise powerless and weak, are easily bought for a sack of Saudi or UAE shekels. There is no justice or morality driving those common criminal Yemeni thugs, just power and money. Before that, it was Brit or Soviet shekels. Tomorrow, someone else will buy them off. That’s very Saudi nomad tribal raider (or Sudanese Janjaweed merc) mentality, not Yemeni mentality. Thug tribes are a small fraction of all the rest of the real Yemeni tribes, confederations and Yemenis that don’t even think about tribal affiliation anymore.
The north and south were never best buds, but the big bloody wars only started when outside arms and money started flowing in. Yemeni thug tribes and thugs fighting to kill other Yemenis for foreign interests. Imperialism, Sovietization, whatever, as long as the thugs got their shekels.
North and South Yemenis agree on one thing: foreigners sniffing around Yemen for regional power and influence by stirring up shit, GTFO.
In the chest from Mauser M48 8X57mm.
“””” Sometimes ppl pick wars they can’t outlast their enemy nor outsource them both in manpower and wealth. The houthis will hold max another 3 yrs but their territories will begin to shrink and eventually the gov’t will take Sana’a soon.”””
Sounds like a familiar sound bite General Westmoreland echoed regarding the Vietcong and N. Vietnam during the war. US with all its resources and military lost that war against a very determined enemy. Ditto to S. Arabia and US involvement in the Yemen war.
Does Jens write your garbage propaganda? Or are you mentally challenged as well, Mark ( the wannabe nobleman without a noble thought in his head).
Goodbye.
As most other people know there was winners of WW1 and Ottomans collapsed after many years of declining.
By that it made sense to create new copuntries and find some Leader. Make me a list which is better and had local support.
Its typical nagging critisism, that people like You NEVER mention alternatives.
This wasnt even a war to make any freedom for someone like You, which hardly has known what it is – ever.
It was about at least some kind og structure instead of dusty museum chaos – and for getting oil and for support for fx Suez and trading by the winning Empires named France an GB.
And its the same as now. At that time You apart from the Saudis none even tryed to liberate Yourself.
Who has anf had use for the oil. Who pays for the oil. Who educate so they can handle the taking up the oil.
And who are sitting in the sand making money for doing absolutly nothing. And who devellop there as we do and think is normal, if the population grow and we think we – As in Our Sunni – try to help the next generation to improve their lives.
And who are we up against?? Even ISIS and Gadaffi sell oil. And who are we up against 2) wellpeople which are not even able top produce simple plastic bottles for local use, because they keeep themself incompetent stupid and there girls and women e´ven mpre stupid then themself.
I can only se You have chosen Geografy Yourself. As You are and work for it, most here dont deserve anything better then that.
A start coud be making structures for peace by human rights by UN or at least try – But as usual Youonly are able to blame the Wahabits and female dtiving cars or not.
I know for Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran and so on how less value females has there. Thats not abiut driving. In those matter YOu are dirty shit not respecting half of the world population as equakl to You – And where are the goof examples by men, which by birth demand honor and rspect for have accompåliced absolutluy nothing and never will.
Thats a difference from here in west to. We get level of honor and respect for what we do and dont nad are born with none of that.
TLDR No point anyway is there . Dumb fuk.
The point for me is, Yours has been kiling each other since before I was born.
The point seemes to be killing each other seemes to be a must.
Should I support any there. I dont. Its a plus You killexh other, so You dont come here. The reproduction rate seemes high.
Stdying who is who, I cant see Wahabits are worse then Shiits there.
The point is You have no point. Leave people alone there.
All Hail Og, King of the Dead!
We have no patent in killings. Things would be easy and simple if it is like that.
amerikan saudi war criminals. despite great expense they are failing
Most of people there are not americans at all.
Dipshit. He didn’t say there were. Again too dumb to understand what is written. America provides the bombs , money and direction to Saudi Arabia. Americans do not have to be physically present. Do you understand now.. No !! thought not..
And the rest use homemade bows and arrows and the infantery rocks a artillery support?
Here is Your good old days.
They didnt solve anything, didnt they`?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War
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I remember the British commanded by Mad Mitch, being kicked out of the Crater District of Aden during that relic of Empires Past.
Saudisis will cry and rage ?
Happy new year girls and guys. Stay safe everyone.?
I am not too sure of the,’Stay Safe’ mantra :) Freedom has never been a safe path to follow :)
you too pal heres hoping the new year is better than the last for us and the houthis :)
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Everybodies eyae are not on Yemen. People are almost like me. I have heard about everlasting fightings there since before I was born., so I dont care.
O sometimes comment like: Very strange way of contraseption. Or: Fair enough, they kill. civilians too.
All players there has very dirty hands or worse. Not even the best soap can clean anything there. Maybee Monsanto can:( I dont love Monsanto as well.
What were the basic forensics of the attack, missile, planted bomb, or mortar strike?
hahahaahhahahaha
Hey Wahhabis from all sides, Happy New Year feom Yemenis freedom fighters.
Make those Houthi roaches pay.