Al Jazeera English – Yemeni iranian agents group ’seizes Saudi troops’

 

 

Anti-government fighters in northern Yemen claim to have captured a number of Saudi soldiers, amid reports of the kingdom’s increasing involvement in the conflict.

Mohammed Abdel-Salam, a spokesman for the Houthis, told Al Jazeera on Friday that the men were seized after Saudi ground forces crossed into Yemeni territory.

“We will carry out interviews with them … they will be treated with respect,” he said.

Abdel-Salam urged Riyadh to end the “unjust Saudi aggression” and to stop Yemeni forces from using bases inside Saudi territory to attack the Houthis.

Saudi Arabia has not commented on the claim, but has previously said that its operations against the Yemeni fighters have been limited to air raids and artillery strikes.

The Yemeni government accuses the Houthis of seeking to restore an imamate overthrown in a 1962 coup that sparked eight years of civil war.

The Houthis insist they are fighting to defend their community against government aggression and marginalisation.

via Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Yemen group ’seizes Saudi troops’.

~ by yahyasheikho786 on November 7, 2009.