Yemen crisis: President resigns as rebels tighten hold

by **wciappetta** on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 2:40 pm

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by wciappetta on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 2:40 pm

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Shia Houthi rebels overran Sanaa in September
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The president of Yemen has resigned along with his prime minister as Shia Houthi rebels tighten their grip on the capital Sanaa.
President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and Prime Minister Khaled Baha tendered their resignations to parliament which reportedly refused to accept them.
The move came despite a deal to make political concessions to the rebels.
Rebel figures welcomed the news with one reportedly proposing the creation of a ruling presidential council.
The council would include Houthi-led groups, Abu al-Malek Yousef al-Fishi was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
Houthi leaders had previously committed themselves to withdrawing from key positions around the presidential palace and the home of President Hadi.
The US, which is helping fight al-Qaeda militants in Yemen, said it was still assessing the implications of President Hadi's move.
'Political maze'
In his letter of resignation, seen by the Associated Press news agency, Mr Hadi said the parties had reached a "deadlock".
"We found out that we are unable to achieve the goal, for which we bear a lot of pain and disappointment," he said.
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President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has been in power since 2012
A government source told the BBC ministers were resigning in protest at the rebels' challenge to Yemen's sovereignty and their seizure of state institutions.
In his resignation letter, Prime Minister Baha said the cabinet did not want to be dragged into an "unconstructive political maze".
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Prime Minister Khaled Baha was in office just over three months
Earlier this week, Houthi gunmen fired on Mr Baha's convoy and then laid siege to the presidential palace, where he was staying.
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Analysis: Sebastian Usher, BBC World Service
The resignation of the Yemeni president and his government is likely to plunge an already unstable country into uncharted territory.
It comes just a day after a deal was announced between the president and the Houthi rebels that was meant to paper over the sharpest edges of the current crisis.
The rebels received the concessions they demanded. For their part, they were meant to withdraw from the presidential palace and from Mr Hadi's own house, as well as releasing a presidential aide they abducted last week.
They have done none of this. Mr Hadi and his government say they cannot continue under such conditions. Yemen was already close to chaos - now it seems it has no president and no government.
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Then on Wednesday the home of President Hadi was shelled, shattering a ceasefire that had been agreed only hours earlier.
The ceasefire deal had met a series of rebel demands including the expansion of Houthi representation in parliament and state institution.
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The Shia Houthi rebels have been seeking greater autonomy for their northern heartlands
In return, the rebels said they would pull back from their positions and free the president's chief of staff, whom they have held since Saturday. But so far they have not done so.
The Houthis, who follow a branch of Shia Islam known as Zaidism, have staged periodic uprisings since 2004 in an effort to win greater autonomy for their northern heartland of Saada province.
Since July the rebels have inflicted defeats on tribal and militia groups backed by the leading Sunni Islamist party, Islah, and battled al-Qaeda as they have pushed into central and western provinces.
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by **wciappetta** on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 2:50 pm

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by wciappetta on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 2:50 pm

In think this is a move coordinated with Iran and Russia partly designed to force oil prices upward... This county has Middle East oil and gas export pipeline terminals.They are setting up to coral oil exports It also could be an attempt to surround Saudi Arabia and will become a Russian warm water port.

As you can tell I think this will prove to be a big deal... I hope the rebels can be dislodged ...

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by wciappetta on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 3:09 pm

Three US ships sitting off the coast of Yemen and yet we are doing nothing to stop this. Remember this day.

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by duck2000 on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 4:51 pm

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by duck2000 on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 4:51 pm

i can see an russian port sitting just off saudi oil ports daring obama to stop him!

by **wciappetta** on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 5:21 pm

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by wciappetta on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 5:21 pm

Now the Saudi King has died... change in policy coming?

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by **day dreamer** on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 6:06 pm

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by day dreamer on Thu 22 Jan 2015, 6:06 pm

times are changing so fast in front of us it's unbelievable

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by wciappetta on Fri 23 Jan 2015, 8:33 am

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This one of those Carteresque Obama moments.... like Libya,Syria, Ukraine,Iran,not to forget Egypt...I'm sure we can add to this list oh yes the Russian reset...

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by day dreamer on Fri 23 Jan 2015, 10:14 am

remember the open mic that caught Obama telling Russia
Obama open mic slip: 'After my election I have more flexibility'

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by wciappetta on Wed 25 Mar 2015, 8:30 am

@wciappetta wrote:Three US ships sitting off the coast of Yemen and yet we are doing nothing to stop this. Remember this day.

You have to wonder how this is possible, US warships off the coast and we sit idly by doing nothing? These days our allies can count more on Haiti for military support than the US. This is very important strategic location, it simply embarrassing to watch. It is no wonder that all these terror groups, not to mention Russia and China, feel they can flex their muscles ... watch when North Korea lobs a Nuke in our back yard...Obama's response will most likely be I'll get to that a, just let me make this lap in the tidal pool at Robin's Nest...

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Yemen's president flees his house in Aden as rebels advance

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's embattled president fled his palace in Aden for an undisclosed location Wednesday as Shiite rebels offered cash bounty for his capture and arrested his defense minister.

President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi left just hours after the rebels' own television station said they seized an air base where U.S. troops and Europeans advised the country in its fight against al-Qaida militants. That air base is only 60 kilometers (35 miles) away from Aden, the port city where Hadi had established a temporary capital.

The advance of the Shiite rebels, empowered by backing of the ousted Yemeni autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh's loyalists, threatens to plunge the Arab world's poorest country into a civil war that could draw in its Gulf neighbors. Already, Hadi has asked the United Nations to authorize a foreign military intervention in the country.

Witnesses said they saw a convoy of presidential vehicles Wednesday leaving Hadi's palace, located at the top of a hill in Aden overlooking the Arabian Sea.

Presidential officials said Hadi was in an operations room overseeing his forces' response. They declined to say where that facility was located. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren't authorized to brief journalists.

Yemen's Foreign Minister Riad Yassin told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV satellite news network that he officially made a request to the Arab League on Wednesday to send a military force to intervene against Houthis. Yassin is attending the Arab Summit due to take place in Egypt at the end of the week.

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Depicting the Houthis as a proxy of Shiite Iran, a rival to Sunni Gulf countries, Yassin warned of Iranian "takeover" of Yemen. The Houthis deny they are backed by Iran.

Yemen's state television broadcaster, controlled by Houthis, made an offer of nearly $100,000 for Hadi's capture. Officials meanwhile said that the country's Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Mahmoud al-Subaihi and his top aide were arrested in the southern city of Lahj, where fighting with Houthi forces was ongoing, before they were transferred to Sanaa.

Already, military officials said militias and military units loyal to Hadi had "fragmented," speeding the rebel advance. They said the rebels were fighting Hadi's allied forces on five different fronts Wednesday.
Mohammed Abdel-Salam, a spokesman for the Houthis, said that their forces were not aiming to "occupy" the south.

"They will be in Aden in few hours," Abdel-Salam told the Houthis' satellite Al-Masirah news channel.

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Early Wednesday, Al-Masirah reported that the Houthis and allied fighters had "secured" the al-Annad air base, the country's largest. It claimed the base had been looted by both al-Qaida fighters and troops loyal to Hadi.

The reported Houthi takeover of the base took place after hours-long clashes between rival forces around the base. The U.S. recently evacuated some 100 soldiers, including Special Forces commandos, from the base after al-Qaida briefly seized a nearby city. Britain also evacuated soldiers.

The base was crucial in the U.S. drone campaign against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which America considers to be the most dangerous branch of the terror group. American and European military advisers there also offered logistical in its fight against the al-Qaida group, which holds territory in eastern Yemen and has claimed directed the recent attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

U.S. operations against the militants have been scaled back dramatically amid the chaos in Yemen. U.S. officials have said CIA drone strikes will continue in the country, though there will be fewer of them. The agency's ability to collect intelligence on the ground in Yemen, while not completely gone, is also much diminished.

The takeover of the base is part of the wider offensive led by Houthis and loyalists of Saleh within Yemen's armed forces.

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The Houthis, in the aftermath of suicide bombings in Sanaa last week that killed at least 137 people, ordered a general mobilization of its forces. The group's leader, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, vowed to send his forces to the south under the context of fighting al-Qaida and militant groups.

The Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, in September and have been advancing south alongside forces loyal to Saleh.

On Tuesday, Houthi militias and allied forces fired bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters in the city of Taiz, known as the gateway to southern Yemen. The Houthis killed six demonstrators and wounded scores more, authorities said.

The Houthis also battled militias loyal to Hadi in the city of al-Dhalea adjacent to Taiz, which is Yemen's third-largest city. The city also is the birthplace of its 2011 Arab Spring-inspired uprising that forced Saleh to hand over power to Hadi in a deal brokered by the U.N. and Gulf countries.

Hadi on Tuesday asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize a military intervention "to protect Yemen and to deter the Houthi aggression expected to occur at any hour from now" against Aden and the rest of the south. In a letter to the council's president, Hadi said he also has asked members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League for immediate help.

Saudi Arabia warned that "if the Houthi coup does not end peacefully, we will take the necessary measures for this crisis to protect the region."

Diplomatic missions of Hadi's Arab Gulf allies, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, have evacuated their diplomatic staff from Aden over the past few days, officials said. They earlier evacuated from Sanaa and relocated to Aden to support Hadi.

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by CITEX on Thu 26 Mar 2015, 1:58 pm

With Yemen, Egypt, and Iraq all fighting the terror groups, That is certainly putting Saudi Arabia on an Island. Really only leaves Jordan, Oman and UEA as the only remaining borders that Saudi isn't concerned with, and those borders are all combined are probably smaller than the one with Iraq alone.... Scary times for the Kingdom.....

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