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Another Arab Spring Success: Shiite Rebels Seize Gov Buildings in Yemeni Capital

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 21, 2014 @ 11:07 am In The Point | 18 Comments

The Arab Spring certainly hasn’t brought reform or meaningful democracy, but it has destabilized every country it touched.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized control of cabinet headquarters in the capital Sana’a as clashes showed no sign of letting up even after the United Nations envoy said he brokered an agreement to end the crisis.

Prime Minister Mohammed Salem Basindwah resigned today, Al Jazeera reported, without saying where it got the information. The Houthis captured the cabinet building and a military camp guarding the state radio offices in the capital, Mohammed Abdulsalam, a spokesman for the Shiite rebels, said on Facebook. They also seized the headquarters of the First Armored division, Ali al-Emad, a Houthi leader, said by phone.

Deteriorating security across a country bigger than Spain has raised the prospect of the state’s collapse along tribal and sectarian lines, and is providing a haven for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Stability in the country of 25 million people has worsened, with more kidnappings and assassinations since popular unrest pushed President Ali Abdullah Saleh from office in 2011.

Popular unrest in this case is spelled Arab Spring.

You know that Arab Spring which was supposed to herald a new wave of change across the region. It did, just not the ones that the media and the foreign policy experts owned by Qatar were promising us.

Yemen’s interior ministry urged the security services on Sunday to avoid confronting Shiite rebels who have seized key institutions in Sanaa, in a statement posted on its website.

Interior Minister Abdo al-Tarib urged “all members of the ministry not to confront Ansarullah (rebels)”, the website statement said.

The minister urged “cooperation” with the rebels “to strengthen security and stability, preserve public property and guard government installations… and to consider Ansarullah friends of the police,” the statement said.

That should work well.


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