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Old 04-21-2005, 14:10   #6
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Yemen does have one advantage, though, which is that no one really cares about Yemen.
compared with, say, Kyrgyzstan?

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After the Zaydi monarchy was overthrown, the Egyptians tried to use North Yemen as a weapon against Saudi Arabia. Their role in the civil war there was particularly brutal, involving the use of chemical weapons against royalist forces.
Why would a bunch of Zaydi Nationalists from the north ally themselves with Egyptians who have chemical weapons up their bisht?


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Apparently their ostensible ideological differences amounted to nothing.
I must defer to your knowledge on that subject
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