The ongoing fighting between the Yemeni government and a militant faction (either Ansar al-Sharia or al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) depending on the news source) continues to escalate today in the strategic town of Lawder, with locals reporting that the overall death toll of the last four days of fighting is now 177.
The latest reports have both the Yemeni government and the militants trading artillery fire, and the inclusion of government armed civilian “resistance committees” has brought the fighting, initially confined to the army post on the outskirts, into the city itself, putting growing numbers of civilians in the line of fire.
The fighting hasn’t just spread inside Lawder either, with reports that the nearby town of Mudia is also seeing fighting as militants clash with locals. The US has also become involved, attacking a stolen army vehicle with a drone and killing 12 “suspects.”
Ansar al-Sharia has held the Abyan capital of Zinjibar since June, and has consolidated most of the province under its control, beating back the military at every chance. Lawder is a particularly important town, on the only major highway leading northeast. Since Ansar al-Sharia, AQAP, and other factions have made recent gains north of Abyan, the fall of Lawder would give them an easy way to link up forces with their de facto capital.
Too many acronyms for something rather simple. There IS NO such thing as AQAP, only as a figment of Saudi imagination, and our enablers. South Yemen has never historically been part Yemen. It has been an artificial creation of British Empire that took the port of Aden, and conveniently other sultanates/sheikhates along the coast. When it became independent, it copied Egypt's style of military rule, and to avoid giving regional governments any power, called the creation South Yemen. North occupied it in the nineties — with the help of Saudi Arabia. They will eventually split from the North, no matter how much "central" government in Sana'a objects, and no matter how much droning we do. They will eventually regain independence, as they were never ruled from Sana'a in their thousands year old history. It may not be hard to understand why is Saudi Arabia so jittery — it is afraid of its own population that has ZERO rights. But what is in it for us —- is beyond comprenehsion. All we need is that a country is not hostile to US. Now, if we try to stop them from separating, they will have every reason to be hostile. What on earth are we doing there?
"What is in it for us". Oil, and it is comprehensible.
A U.S. marine died Wednesday, April 11, in Helmand province.
Its all about humanity and the hyppcrate deal of of you US and Western formailized government of gangstar interracted with highly managed orgnized draculs looting firms which had been support North yemen occupation of south yemen all under low price deals and own interest.The are giving the go a head go occupation through by corrupting the UN policies and making of faulsfied UN codes.
the equipe the the North occupation regime in the same way they are supportting Isreal.