Bashir was kept in power, long after his “sell by date,” despite innumerable war crimes indictments, by agreeing to put 40,000 Sudanese troops (4000 were killed there) in Yemen on behalf of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
In 2011, Bush (43) agreed to protect Bashir if he divided the nation and cut the Bush family in on Sudan’s oil. (I sat in on those negotiations).
Sudan’s new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has vowed to withdraw troops from the Saudi-led war in Yemen, saying his country’s role should be limited to assisting in a political resolution of the conflict.
“The conflict in Yemen has no military solution, whether from us or from anywhere in the world,” Hamdok told the Atlantic Council, a US-based think tank, on Thursday.
He added that the war “has to be resolved through political means,” and that his country will seek to “help our brothers and sisters in Yemen and play our role with the rest to help them address this”.
Sudan has been one of the main contributors to the so-called Saudi coalition against Yemen, formed in 2015 in a bid to install a pro-Saudi government in Sana’a and crush Yemen’s Houthi Ansarllah movement.
According to reports, up to 40,000 Sudanese troops were deployed in the country during the peak of the conflict in 2016-2017.
Late October, however, Sudanese officials said the country had withdrawn thousands of troops from Yemen, with only a “few thousand” remaining.
Speaking on Thursday, Hamdok said “not many” Sudanese forces remain in Yemen.
Hamdok, who is leading the country’s transitional government in a power-sharing pact with the military, further stated that he will be “absolutely” able to withdraw the remaining troops from Yemen.
The new prime minster said his government had “inherited” the deployment in Yemen from Sudan’s former president Omar Hassan al-Bashir who was ousted following a popular uprising against his rule in April.
Hamdok pledged to “address” the country’s involvement in the Saudi-led war “in the near future” without further elaborating on the matter.
While Sudanese officials have abstained from publishing official casualty numbers in Yemen, Yemen’s armed forces have said a total 4,253 Sudanese troops have been killed in the conflict.
The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says a total of 4,253 Saudi-led Sudanese mercenaries have been killed in battles with Yemeni forces.
The developments come as the Saudi-led mission in Yemen has come to a standstill due to the resistance and increasingly sophisticated attacks of Yemeni forces.
Yemeni army forces have shot down a third Saudi spy drone in the kingdom
Earlier this year, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Riyadh’s most influential partner in the war, was reported to have withdrawn most of its troops from Yemen.
UAE officials have reached the conclusion that the war has become “unwinnable” and that the Houthis will eventually “have a role in the future in Yemen”, reports said.
Yemenis loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi are deeply sidelined by Saudi Arabia
Fearing a long-lasting quagmire in Yemen, Riyadh has also been reportedly seeking to negotiate an end to the conflict through discussions with the Houthis.
and from Fars, Iran (2015)
TEHRAN (FNA)- The VT revealed on Tuesday that the two F16s, which were shot down over Yemen this week, belonged to the Israeli Air Force.
The VT said that when the wreckage of the downed fighter jets were examined, both were found to be of types never supplied to an Arab nation, not Saudi Arabia, not anyone. The only “buyer” in the region for that type of plane is Israel.
According to the US website, “fresh Saudi markings were painted on the two “Israeli” warplanes.”
“A strong confirmation of a tactical thermonuclear attack on a Yemeni airbase, a neutron bomb attack (NRR No Residual Radiation), proves that the war on Yemen is now clearly an “Israeli” war.”
Yemeni air defense forces shot down a Saudi marked fighter jet in the Northwestern province of Sana’a as it was conducting airstrikes. This is the second F16 downed this week – clearly the strength of the Yemeni air defenses has been grossly underestimated. The Saudi F-16 fighter jet was shot down and subsequently crashed in the Bayt Khayran area of the district of Bani Harith in the Northern part of Sana’a.
On May 11, Yemen’s al-Masirah television reported that Ansarullah fighters brought down a Moroccan marked fighter jet violating the country’s airspace in the Noshour Valley in the Northern province of Sa’ada. The downed fighter jet had reportedly conducted a number of airstrikes against Yemen’s al-Dailami airbase. Saudi jets have been carrying out military strikes against Yemen since March 26.
According to Yemeni media outlets, on Sunday Saudi fighter jets targeted a factory in the Western Yemeni province of al-Hudaydah, killing three civilians and injuring 19 others. The Saudi fighter jets also targeted residential areas, a military airbase and a police headquarters in the province in separate attacks.
Now we come to the interesting part – analysis of the wreckage shows these planes to be of unknown origin. While they carried Saudi paint jobs, we know that they cannot be Saudi aircraft and in fact are “Israeli” aircraft flown by Arabic speaking “Israeli” Air Force pilots, members of a special “Kamikaze” unit that flies specially modified F16, “nuke carriers” tasked for doomsday operations against Iran, Russia or Western Europe.
One of these aircraft was most likely responsible for dropping the neutron bomb on Yemen a few days ago. Yemeni media reports that two of the “rockets” carried by the fighter jet remained unexploded and were found in the wreckage; these are most likely the Sidewinder missiles carried for defense against other aircraft. We do not know what other ordnance the aircraft was carrying.
The pilots of these two downed aircraft have not been found; no doubt if extensive searches are being carried out – an “Israeli” pilot captured alive would be quite a coup for the Yemenis.
The aircraft was shot down by an updated BUK system supplied by Russia – Yemen is well-equipped with modern Russian weaponry including MiG-29s and advanced air-defense systems, a fact that has clearly been overlooked by the Saudis and their “Israeli” allies; they have grossly underestimated the capabilities of their enemy and as we have seen before, most notably in Southern Lebanon against Hezbollah – “Israel” does not do so well when it’s victims are prepared and capable of fighting back; perhaps they thought they were bombing undefended civilians in Gaza?
Photo analysis of the shot down F-16 in Yemen show that they are the early model; block A/B F-16 ground attack configuration version (it has the small or what is called the short tail) with Royal Saudi Air Force markings being newly painted on the air frame. All of the so-called Arab coalition aircraft are block C/D not A/B.
So this is probably one of the 50 surpluses US F-16 model given to “Israel” during the Clinton administration or it is a recently surplus ex-NATO aircraft either from Italy or Portugal. The only other option is that they were directly supplied from the US covertly. We need a serial no. or tail number to confirm which production block they came from.
Newly painted RSAF stencil on downed “Israeli” F-16I forgot it was carrying the 300 gal center line long range bolt on conformal drop tank with no air to air refueling capability or ECM equipment. This is why it was shot down. Too slow and no countermeasures. It was also using the older APG-66 radar. Riyadh or UAE to Yemen is only 600 miles.
However, “Israel” to Yemen is 1200 miles. An F-16 with 3 drop tanks, 4x 1000 lb. bombs and 2 sidewinder missiles for
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