US-Armed Rebels Force Yemen President To Flee Country As Saudis Prepare For War!

• US-Armed Rebels Force Yemen President To Flee Country As Saudis Prepare For War! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  UPDATE: *PRESIDENT OF YEMEN SAID TO HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY ON BOAT FROM ADEN, AP SAYS
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  As The BBC reports,
  Yemen’s President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in Aden as Houthi rebels advance towards the city.
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  Gunfire could be heard around the city centre, and the rebels are reported to have seized the international airport.
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  On Wednesday morning, the Houthis moved to within 60km (37 miles) of the city after taking a key air base following fierce fighting with Hadi loyalists.
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  Government officials later said the president had been moved to a “secure location” but had not fled the country.
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  Previously we reported that in the latest “coup” for US foreign policy, the US had “lost” over $500 million in weapons in Yemen, until recently an Obama administration foreign policy “success story”, following the abrupt evacuation of the US embassy there, all of which ended up in local rebel and al-Qaeda hands.
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  Next up: yet another regional civil war involving a regime that was until recently so very loyal to Obama: a war which many blame on the former administration:
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  And as a follow up Reuters reports, the Saudi are indeed preparing for what appears to be the next MENA war, by moving heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict.
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  The slide toward war in Yemen has made the country a crucial front in Saudi Arabia’s region-wide rivalry with Iran, which Riyadh accuses of sowing sectarian strife through its support for the Houthis.
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  Just as Ukraine is a proxy war between Russia and the US, Yemen will be a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia:
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