Saudis at the gates. Well, if there were gates. Let's be kind and call the imaginary line between Saudi and Yemen a "border."
So I have been quite remiss in updating about the fighting in Yemen. This tidbit, by way of Waq al-Waq, hopefully makes up for that somewhat. As background information, the Saudis have started to get involved in Saada in a big way, bombing and shelling Saudi/Yemeni (depending on who you ask, but likely both countries’) territory in response to cross-border actions by the Houthi rebels (who claim that Yemen was encamped in a strategic mountain just on the other side of the border, on the Saudi side) Everyone denies everything, naturally. Here’s an undoubtedly scrupulous Saudi source on recent Houthi methods:
A young infiltrator was arrested Monday while he was going through the border on his donkey posing as a refugee to join his family at the refugee camp. As he was being questioned, he pulled out a gun to fire at the troops who quickly responded by shooting him dead.
Two more infiltrators in Jarbah in Abu Aresh Governorate did not resist arrest. They were dressed in women’s clothes.
An armed infiltrator was arrested in his underwear with strange drawings on his back. He was believed to have been practising black magic on Saudi troops.
The infiltrators used animals with lamps on them to attempt to trick Saudi troops into following them.
The animals, however, were detected by infrared cameras and night vision systems. After regaining captured areas, Saudi forces scaled back their assault along the mountainous border and captured 200 or more infiltrators, a government advisor told AFP Monday.
