Thursday, October 25, 2012

Northern Yemen Is Enjoying The Peace For Now

Anti-U.S. Rebels’ Triumph In Northern Yemen Brings Peace To Embattled Region -- McClatchy News

SAADA, Yemen — For much of the past decade, Yemen’s far northern governorate of Saada, on the border with Saudi Arabia, has been one of the most conflict-wracked areas of this fractious nation, a place where war between the Houthis, who practice a brand of Shiite Islam known as Zaydi, and Yemen’s central government has left thousands of dead and much of the region in ruins.

Today, however, the governorate is an unlikely bastion of calm, with the Houthis effectively seizing control during the months that the battle to depose former President Ali Abdullah Saleh distracted the central government.

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My Comment: This period of calm will inevitably be shattered when the central government is strong enough to assert it's authority in the region. When will that happen is something that no one can predict .... but it will happen one day.

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