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Come on, call it what it is. The "anti-Houthi militias" are local branches of ISIS and al-qaida. Which makes the current US policy even more confusing.
by panpanna 7y ago
Come on, call it what it is.
The "anti-Houthi militias" are local branches of ISIS and al-qaida.
Which makes the current US policy even more confusing.
- azernik 7y agoThat's complete nonsense. Neither the Hadi (Saudi-backed) nor STC (UAE-backed) types are particularly Islamist; ISIS and al-Qaeda are a third bloc in the rural/desert east that the US periodically bombs, while the Saudis are busy generally bombing Houthi-governed civilians.
- panpanna 7y agoThat's the official Saudi line and it doesn't take a genius to see its BS: This whole mess escalated when houthi rebels tried to stop ISIS from taking over the government. Where did those come from? What did the Saudis do? At what point did they started bombing civilians?? Do you see the red line?
- azernik 7y agoThe whole mess escalated from fuel price rises, with the help of the former president who had been ousted by the Arab Spring revolt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_takeover_in_Yemen ISIS and al-Qaeda were not involved in any of the maneuvering around Sana'a, and the Saudi intervention kicked off when they realized that a) Hadi still had a power base in the south, and b) the Houthis were about to capture it
- boomboomsubban 7y ago>ISIS and al-Qaeda were not involved in any of the maneuvering around Sana'a, While true, in many countries a group like Al-Islah would probably be described in the Western media as "linked to ISIS" or something similar. They're part of the Muslim Brotherhood also regularly maligned in the West.
- azernik 7y agoOnly by Western media that doesn't know what it's talking about.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoOr media that views their connection to the Saudi spread of Wahhabism as similar to ISIS'.