Jane Novak provides an update on the Yemeni jihad against Shi'ites: "As we earlier discussed, the Yemeni regime has distributed a fatwa justifying violence against a band of Zaidi (Shiite) rebels. A variety of established jihadist groups have joined the battle in the Sa'ada region of Yemen: for example, the Aden Abyan Islamic Army and Khalidabdul Nabi, along with thousands of Salafi tribesmen. The regime has ordered Salafi mosque preachers to increase their rhetoric against Zaidis in general. The regime has furthermore entirely blocked off the region where the rebels are located, prohibited shipments of food and medicine for two months, and ordered villagers to leave their homes in advance of military assaults without providing any shelter. The Yemeni military assault is being led by General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a "former" friend of Osama Bin Laden, and the upper ranks of Yemen's military, security forces, judiciary and administration are thought to contain numerous individuals of a hard core Salafist orientation.
"Here is a listing from the rebels' side of the Yemeni government's actions and their impact on the civilian population. The government is:
1- Prohibiting corn and other beans and foods from coming to the governorate.2- Prohibiting medical supplies from entering the Saada region, closing pharmacies and clinics. Also only allowing military personnel and others fighting with the government to enter the Republic Hospital and Alsalam Hospital and arresting the injured civilians who come to the hospital for treatment.
3- Prohibiting all kinds of energy supplies from entering the governorate.
4- Cutting the public electricity supply in all parts of the governorate.
5- Cutting all telecommunication supplies, home land phones, cell phones and internet.
6- Banning civilians from selling their agricultural products, although that is their only means of survival, and confiscating their products in checkpoints under the justification that they are supporters of Alhouthi.
7- Providing soldiers with religious books that describe Shi'ites as disbelievers who deserve to be killed (the Shi'ites have samples of these books).
8- Forcing people to quarter military soldiers in their homes, and using those homes to perform military actions -- including firing heavy weapons from inside these homes. Also, making schools into military camps.
9- Indiscriminately arresting large numbers of civilians in Saadah and other governorates. Taking these arrested people to unknown places. Those arrested include religious scholars, religious guides, religious teachers and innocent people in general.
10- Continuously attacking indiscriminately, with heavy weapons including missiles, heavy cannons and others. This has destroyed homes while civilians were inside them; this happened to the home of Gar Allah Fardan in Altalh. He was killed inside his home with his two daughters. Also, soldiers have confiscated property.
11- Continuously attacking cities and villages by air, especially in the areas of All Alseefi, Alhamazat, Almahather, Altalh, Bani Mouath, Algomolah and Majz. Also, the government has threatened to attack areas that have not been attacked yet. This has led to hundreds of families being displaced. They have had to go suddenly to deserts, mountain and caves, without tents or supplies.
12- Assassinating a number of key figures in Yemeni society through different means, and then claiming falsely that the followers of Alhouthi were behind these killings -- in order to fan the flames of the tribal thirst for revenge. This happened in the cases of Dr. Ahmed Alagam and Taha Alsaddi.
13- Putting pressure on the heads of tribes to send their tribesmen to fight in the army, in order to flame tribal desires for retaliation that will continue even after the war.
14- Establishing units inside the army from Salafi religious groups that believe that Shi'ites are disbelievers and it is (according to their understanding of religion) permissible to kill them, to take their property, to rape their women, and to seize their children as slaves.
15- Forcing religious speakers to invite people to join the army to fight and distributing publications that encourage that.
16- Pressuring the Association of Religious Guidelines to issue a religious ruling (Fatwa) that legitimizes fighting Shi'ites and justifies killing them. This statement was published everywhere, including the official media (radio, TV and newspapers). This statement was published without signatures and without names.
17- There is credible news that confirms that there are ten military units -- with full equipment -- on their way to the governorate from different parts of the country.
"More on the jihad and all things Yemeni at Armies of Liberation."
"Forcing people to quarter military soldiers in their homes, and using those homes to perform military actions -- including firing heavy weapons from inside these homes."
...This is a Muslim tactic seen in Iraq...and the MSM is quick to blame our soldiers when we counter attack and people are killed...
aside from this observation.....I am waiting to see what Ahmadinejad is going to do. (besides throw a temper tantrum and stomp his feet)...
Whoa, all this happened while I was in the shower?
I haven't seen anything about this in the MSM.
Thanks for being here, Robert.
If my enemies are fighting each other, why should I get in their way?
This couldn't be yet another attempt to inflame Shia passions in Iraq against the Sunni's could it (highly likely that it is), don't these people ever have enough of killing each other.
Islam, religion of death...
Seems to me that all the things they are protesting have the weight of the quran behind them. Perhaps the shiites will stand with those in Kashmir, Thailand, Malaysia, Serbia, Bosnia, etc who are under threat from jihad at the moment. That's not kosher (for lack of a better word) though as the people in those area are infidels, apparently.
Hopefully, NOT coming to a town near you anytime soon.
This type of behavior should be encouraged. And as long as the U.S. is being accused of fomenting the violence, we might as well foment away. As long as they are fighting each other, they are leaving the rest of us alone.
Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Paris, Dearbornistan and any where else we find a population of Shiite and Sunni, encourage the rift.
If memory serves, the "Saada region" was recently the locale of a threatened pogrom by some sheik against the few hundred Jews still living in Yemen who ended up taking up refuge in a hotel in the capital. If so, and the ringleader of the threatened purge was a Shia, then there's a bit of poetic justice in this story. If not, it's just business as usual.
There goes the Shiite neighboorhood
Napoleon Bonaparte:
Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.
Beast killing beast.
We should encourage this.
Who cares if two mad dogs want to rip each other apart.
I hope the Pentagon and Nance Pelosi will get a copy of what Yemen is doing. It is CALLED ORDER OF BATTLE WAR POLICY.
Yemen understands that unless you cripple the "innocent bystander community" which is providing money, food, shelter and camoflague to the terrorists you will never win the war.
That is how the English defeated the French and Indians.
That is how America defeated the Confederacy and the plains Indians.
It is called warfare and it is wonderful to see Yemen not giving humane treatment to terrorists.
The Shia of Yemen are mostly Zaidis (Fivers). They are nothing like the mainstream Twelver Shia who dominate Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. Zaidi beliefs are moderate compared to other Shi'i sects. The Zaidis do not believe in the infallibility of the Imams, nor that they receive divine guidance. Zaidis also reject the notion of Occultation (ghayba) of the "Hidden Imām". Like the Ismā'īlīs, they believe in a living Imām (or Imāms).
The Shia are heretics of Islam and are considered to be non believers and not followers of Islam.
There are also smaller groups of Ismailis (followers of the Aga Khan) in Yemen who are not Islamic at all in their culture. Both the Muslim Zaidis and the Ismailis (who are hardly Muslim at all) are hated by mainstream Muslims, both Sunni and Shia.
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Waterdragon52,
I think the sheik who led the anti-Jewish pogrom was a Wahhabi but I'm not sure.
Above should read "These Shia are heretics of Islam and are considered to be non believers"
That is how the English defeated the French and Indians.
l beg to disagree, actually the greedy French traded some stupid spice island off India over Canada. they just thought Canada was a land of snow and ice. foolish elites pomous bastards. the French palate takes over all.
anyhow.. the Shia, Sunni, are all the same to me, all become terrorists when they become pious muslims. only difference is among themselves. they see themselves different and kill each other over minute differences,, and l say go for it guys!
VS Naipaul said a long time ago that when it comes to fanaticism the Shiites had nothing on the Sunnis and he said this after the Iranian revolution. Unfortunately the politicians prefer to get their information on the ROP from lapsed seminarians, instead of doing some serious reading on their own.
Prosolvani:
I suspect you are correct. I looked back at this news item on the Stephen Roth Institute's site and the pogromists were described as Al-Qaeda affilliates, who are generally hysterically anti-Shia unless they are, like the Taliban in Afghanistan, or the "insurgents" in Chechniya, or Hamas in the PA, desparate for any assistance at all, even if it comes from the Islamic Republic of Iran.