Yemen has had Islamist militant problems for many years, but they’ve always centered around al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). That may have changed with the nation’s ISIS affiliate claiming credit for massive suicide bombings against mosques in the capital of Sanaa.
The fledgling ISIS affiliate in Yemen has only even been discussed for a couple of months, and then primarily for competing with AQAP over recruits and trying to establish itself as at least credible.
How they went from that to carrying out the huge Sanaa attacks today is unclear, to the point that some experts have expressed doubt that Yemeni ISIS was even capable of pulling those strikes off.
AQAP was quick to disavow the attacks, however, and they’re not the sort to deny credit for things they actually did. This might support ISIS’ claim of credit, and if it does turn out to be true, they’re very much established as another problem for war-torn Yemen.
Noam Chomsky
“Danger of a good example”
Have you noticed how everything that the Islamic State does, just happens to be of great benefit to Empire USA? For since the Houthis tribes won the Yemen Civil War and removed from power all of the politicians that were being bribed by the CIA, so much hell has broken out in such a small impoverished nation, so much misery that only an Empire in high-gear for expansion could relish in the doing of it, surely the most probable cause has to be USA.
For the Houthis government in Yemen has all the ear marks of a fair and just democracy in the making, the danger of a good example that no Empire could survive in.