AFP: Yemen: Shiite, Sunni militants fuel chaos
Sanaa (AFP) - Armed groups have led the slide into chaos in Yemen, where a truce between Arab-backed loyalist forces and Iran-backed Shiite rebels is expected to enter into force at midnight Monday.
Shiite militiamen and Sunni extremists have sought to exploit a power vacuum since 2011 nationwide protests forced veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down
WNU Editor: With so many different ethnic and religous groups involved in the conflict .... it makes you wonder if it is even possible for Yemen to stay together as a unified country.
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WNU Editor,
Probably not now, but once upon a time,....
After the USS Cole attacks the Yemen Government was arm twisted into supporting the GWOT,
Which saw drone strikes on AQAP, but also the Sunni Tribals who were trying to push AQAP out. The U.S. relied on KSA Intellegence and KSA influence who then flooded Yemen with Whabbist Mullah's and Madrassa's, which bolstered AQAP.
The Houthi Movement in the 5'er Tribal Areas started as political push back against the Whabbist radicalization and the "capture" of the Yemen Government by the KSA, and managed along with the Yemeni Spring, got Pres. Saleh and his Government to resign.
Instead of getting new elections and reform, the Yemeni's got a KSA/US appointed extremist Whabbist Government under Hadi forced down their throats. Pres. Hadi continued the failed policies of the Saleh Government, doubled down on Extremism, and started bombing the Yardzi areas under the guise of "fighting terrorism", while arming AQAP.
The Houthi's picked up their guns, drove the jihadi's out of the Yardzi areas, then marched on Saana. Pres. Hadi fled to Aden. Once in Sanna, they joined up with ex. pres. Saleh, and 3/4's of the Yemeni Army, to form the Ansruallah Front, and marched on Aden, driving both the jihadi's and the few Hadi Loyalists in front of them.
When they reached Aden, Pres. Hadi fled to the KSA, and shortly after, the KSA and the GCC started airstrikes and the ground invasion to back "their" boys, Pres. Hadi and Al Quida in the Arab Penninsula.
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