View from Mt. Doud: Saudi Arabia says offensive ag
View from Mt. Doud: Saudi Arabia says offensive against Yemen rebels over
View from Mt. Doud: Saudi Arabia says offensive against Yemen rebels over
Saudi Arabia’s deputy defense minister Wednesday rejected Yemeni rebel claims Interactive whiteboard that they had voluntarily withdrawn from Saudi territory, saying they had “been forced out” by the Saudi military.
The prince’s remarks were the first official Saudi response to a statement Monday from the Yemeni rebel leader saying that his forces had withdrawn from Saudi territory and were offering a cease-fire in the almost three-month-old conflict.
Prince Khaled spoke to reporters after reviewing a parade formation of several hundred Saudi infantry,Construction Equipment, paratroopers and artillerymen in a dusty, open field several miles from the Yemen-Saudi border near the town of Kouba in the southern province of Jizan.
Earlier, journalists were driven to the top of Mt. Doud, a peak about a mile from the border that was seized by the rebels in mid-November and retaken by the Saudis a week ago, according to a senior Saudi military officer.
Exploding mortars and occasional gunshots could be heard#x in the distance along the border, and Saudi military officers said that was fighting between Yemeni forces and the rebels, known as Houthis.
Today’s day-long visit to the border area was the first one organized by the Saudi government that included foreign press since the conflict broke out in early November. The Yemeni government has also restricted journalists’ access to the fighting.
As a result, claims by both sides have been almost impossible to verify. While the Houthis sayInteractive whiteboard that the Saudis have bombed their positions inside Yemen, the Saudis assert that they have not crossed the border and are merely trying to oust invaders.
Before answering questions, Prince Khaled stood in the back of a Landcruiser that drove slowly along the three-side formation of his troops, who had been waiting several hours to see their commander. Lines of mobile heavy and light artillery were parked behind the soldiers.
The prince repeatedly referred to the Houthi rebellion as “an internal problem” for Yemen, “which I am sure the Yemeni government can deal with.” If the rebels completely withdraw, return the Saudi prisoners and stop sending in snipers, then “we will stop bombing them.”
The military officer stopped short of openly accusing Iran of supporting the Houthi rebels in their fight against the Saudis. Noting that the rebels had large amounts of weapons, he said they could not have acquired them all “by themselves.”
Mt. Doud, which the Saudis said they retook from the rebels a week ago, offers wide vistas of the surrounding terrain, a mix of sparse scrub and mountains. Almost every peak in the area appeared to have a Saudi lookout.
A new dirt road had been ploughed to the top of the mountain, #xwhere walls made of sandbags surrounded a viewing site for Saudi soldiers. Saudi flags flapped in the wind. Underfoot, the ground was strewn with shell casings.
Maj. Gen. Saeed al Ghamdi, commander of the First Paratrooper Brigade,Interactive whiteboard said that now that Mt. Doud has been retaken “the war is done. Now we can say that the enemy...were repelled, the infiltrators were destroyed, and pulverized in their caves.”
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