"Since the beginning of November, Saudi forces have attacked residential areas and border villages in Yemen, killing and injuring many people.
The Saudi Army has deployed one of its main brigades, which consists of at least 13,000 troops, to northern Yemen.
. . . .
Terrorism and extremism are the most serious problems in Yemen, and certain people are trying to turn Yemen into a center for terrorist activities, [Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki] added."
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207645
However, the Saudi Gazette provides us with a different account concerning the battle with Shiite rebels on the Saudi border with Yemen:
"The Saudi forces will continue their airstrikes against the infiltrators until they move back from the Saudi frontier, Assistant Minister of Defense for Security Affairs Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz said Tuesday. 'We are not going to stop the bombing until the infiltrators retreat tens of kilometers inside their border,' Prince Khaled said on a visit to Saudi troops in southwestern Jizan province."
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009111154154
There's a Middle East conflict that doesn't involve Israel? Why aren't the NGOs protesting this slaughter, or might this somehow affect their fund raising activities in Saudi Arabia?
Many civilians have died? Where are Goldstone and the Human Rights Council, or doesn't brewing enmity between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia matter? Could it be that if Israel can't somehow be blamed, the world yawns and goes about its business?
One might add: where is NYTimes editorials and angry readers' comments? It would be very interesting to see which side they will take... My guess, they would find a way to blame Israel for this war.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. Roger Cohen and many of his readers would blame Israel for all of the Middle East's ills.
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