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Following UAE, Saudi Arabiya Also Deploys Troops At Yemeni Socotra Island

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Following UAE, Saudi Arabiya Also Deploys Troops At Yemeni Socotra Island

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On May 13, Colonel Turki al-Malki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, announced in an official statement that units of the Saudi Army had been deployed on the Yemeni island of Socotra in coordination with the government of Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

According to Col. al-Malik, Saudi Army units will conduct joint training exercises there along with pro-Hadi forces and units of UAE Army units, which were deployed on the Yemeni island on May 9.

Observers believe that the deployment of Saudi troops is aimed at de-escalating the tension between Hadi’s government and the UAE. The Saudi-backed president had opposed the deployment of UAE troops at Socotra.

The Qatari Al-Jazzera TV reported that many locals took at the streets in the capital of Socotra Island, Hadibu, last week to protest against the presence of UAE troops, despite that the Houthis have never had any notable influince on the Yemeni Island.

“These forces are present in Socotra and al-Mahra in numbers that can’t be understood,” said Abdullah bin Issa al-Aafra of the Al-Mahra and Socotra People’s General Council commenting on the crisis, according to al-Jazeera.

Many Yemeni politicians on both sides of the conflict have accused the UAE of planning to annex Socotra Island for geopolitical and financial reasons. However, observers doubt that any side, including Saudi Arbia, would accept such a bold move that could further destabilize Yemen and fuel crisis within the Saudi-led coalition.

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Rob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3gKz-5SyPs Yemen Explained: Saudi Coalition, Houthis and Famine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npk7tfKyXok Yemen: On the brink of starvation – BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzgKd1cl8Ow How the Saudi Blockade is Starving Yemen Oh my God small kids dying due to starvation. They have no food due to blockade …..

1. The Largest Humanitarian Disaster. 2. 8 Million People Hungary. 3. About 11,000 people killed. 4. About 50,000 people injured. 5. Entire villages and towns have been demolished and erased from the earth.

Russia, China and Pakistan could help to open blockade on Houthis, stop oppression and aggressions on them and send humanitarian aid in emergency. There is need of reconciliation between different groups. Saudis tell to Yemen nation that accept Hadi as president otherwise you all will die and nobody will know. Shame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQ2GzxGMBQ How the Saudi Arabian prince lose their money. This will be a shame history.

Rob

Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and all other Muslim nations should send their TV news anchors and leaders to Palestine, Yemen and Syria to know the destruction that US and Israel have done in these three countries. Show the exact situation to the nations and to the world. Pakistan should help them to liberate their countries from US, UK, France and Israeli gangs.

They should not ignore the Yemeni and Palestinian small kids that now dying due to starvation, disease and poisonous drinking water and due to discomfortable blockade. These leaders should consider them like their own children. Israeli checkposts are in whole Palestine which difficult the Palestinian’s movement.

Serious

Sunnis can’t help sunnis. For the good of Palestinians, sunnis must withdraw and say that they are unsuited. Then, Palestinians should let Sweden talk for them and be their guarantor.

Rob

The US and Israeli conspiracy against Turkey, Lebanon, Syria Jordan and Egypt have failed. Have you seen 70% Syria have been recovered from US, UK, France and Israel just with in three years. In this period the Syrian government have learned all modern warfare techniques and became very strong active commandos and special operation forces. Now this is a defense asset of Syria. Now their strength have increased to some 300,000 army personnels and it will not take so long to liberate the remaining 30% Syrian land and rescue the hostages from US, UK, France and Israel.

Serious

Swedish can help themselfs for sure. They can’t help the immigrants that’s an other story.

Serious

To help Palestinians, sunnis must stop trying to help them.

Rob

I have told you before that this is not the war of Sunni and Shia but this is the war between the Middle East nations and US, UK, France and Israeli migrants and their created fake Muslims. There are not only ISIS, HTS, SDF etc there are other many fake Muslims for example Wahabis, Boko Haram, Al Shabab, Ahmadi and Ismaeli etc. The purpose of this fake Muslim creation is to make Islamic religion defame.

Serious

Sunnis roots are double rotten, rotten because they believe in so-called god and so they made israel and their book legitimate and second because they made a coup inside Islam by taking power like dictators do.

There is nothing you can do with abrahamic garbage. It’s proven that these religions are destructive and killed most people and culture of all history.

Those who want to collaborate with a country which comes from a book and which believe that other people are their slaves, they are free to be insulted and to be slaves. I don’t care.

Why not create a state for Harry Potter believers ? XD.

Joe Dirt

You an Atheist?

Rob

The 21st century Israelis are fake, land’s thieves, child killers, fraudsters, corrupt, racists, and aggressors. Keep yourself away from them until you plan to eliminate or deport them.

potcracker2588

spot on…..jews

Pave Way IV

The UAE is just the US proxy force and financier for Socotra land theft. They already provide us with Socotra intel – the UAE exclusively owns all the phone and internet service to the island and listens in on everything. The US needs to know if anyone on Socotra is wise to our electronic intelligence installation we’re building on the mountain. In addition to the UAE’s military project, the UAE’s filthy-rich and degenerate oligarchs are buying up every piece of private property possibly on Socotra from it’s impoverished residents. The UAE is even offering the displaced natives good-paying jobs as janitors and maids for the rich back in the UAE. Yay! It’s a win-win for everybody… in an evil, psychopathic kind of way.

The UAE will soon expand the island’s small commercial airport to include a substantial military portion. They’re probably going to start building the regular commercial sea port on Socotra they already designed. One that will include plenty of berthing for naval vessels.

The UAE will then invite and start hosting US military units in ‘their’ bases. See? We (the US) finally got our long-desired air base and naval port on Socotra. We’ve been trying to do that for decades, but had no plausible or politically-acceptable excuse to do that. Even Hadi balked at US plans, but that was after he found out we were also going to use the future US military bases on Socotra for yet another secret extradition black site to torture prisoners. I don’t think he liked that part, since he will probably be regime-changed and sent there when the US gets tired of him.

Serious

I will not be surprised if that happened. It’s awful how people can be bad. And, noticed that again all that happen thanks to …. sunnis, the american best useful idiots !!!

Smaug

These events coincide perfectly with the new coalition offensive on Taiz. A quid pro quo? If so then a peace deal has been reached, and it’s one that screws over the Houthis.

Brother Thomas

Why is the UNSC silent on this? If it was Russia or China behind such an offensive against a sovereign country, we would be hearing no end of it. Not only are the UK and US arming the Saudis, they are providing active logistical support such as mid-air refueling of Saudi jets on bombing missions.

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