Yemen update 5\13\2015.. whiff of Arab Spring near their borders

Sanaa residents react to beginning of a 5-day ceasefire

Relief in Yemen as truce holds

Iran, Iraq presidents urge immediate ceasefire in Yemen

Saudi Arabia says rockets fired from Yemen hit Najran and Jazan

Iran complains to UNSC against Saudi Arabia hindering aid flow

Iran rejects Pentagon’s criticism over its aid dispatch to Yemen

Ayatollah Khamenei: Saudi Arabia is making a major mistake in Yemen

Rejoice With The ‘New’ House of Saud

By Pepe Escobar

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41826.htm

…Whatever the scope of the shake-up, the “new” House of Saud – with the Obama administration “leading from behind” — will keep selling the fiction that it’s freeing Yemen from a bunch of terrorists, when it’s actually empowering al-Qaeda in the Arabic Peninsula (AQAP). It’s AQAP’s fierce enemies — the Houthis — which have been bombed under the orders of the Royal Youthful.

Not to mention the fact the revamped Mob — with a little help from Qatari and Turkish friends — is making sure the Nusra Front (al-Qaeda’s Syrian spinoff) and ISIS/ISIL/Daesh (which originally split from al-Qaeda) are advancing on all fronts across “Syraq”.

And beyond the scope of the shake-up, as wily Israelis have already identified it, the self-described “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff” Obama administration will keep duly following convoluted Mob mantras. Sort of. As if there’s any coherence in support for hardcore jihadis in Syria but bombing of hardcore jihadis in Iraq; support for hardcore jihadis in Yemen; support for hardcore jihadis in Libya and then repression of hardcore jihadis in Libya, and so it goes.

What makes it even more absurd is that the “new” House of Saud absolutely detests Washington’s “strategy” in Iraq and doesn’t believe for a second there’s a “strategy” for Syria. As for its own convoluted war on Yemen, it’s much less about Wahhabis hating “apostate” Shi’ites than Wahhabis impermeable to any whiff of Arab Spring near their borders….

‘US policy of supporting regimes like Saudi will create long term global problems’