Yemeni Army Troops Target Saudi Mercenaries in Taiz
Althawra Net
The Yemeni army backed by popular forces and Ansarullah killed several other Saudi-hired Blackwater militias in an attack on a military base in the province of Taiz.
A sum of 4 Blackwater mercenaries, including two British, an American and a South African paramilitary troops, were killed in an attack on their military base in Zobab region in Taiz province.
“The Yemeni attack killed former British navy commander George William Castle, former British special forces officer Mark Judd Hart, American national Eshaq Bikark and South African national Alfred Banoushka,” the Arabic-language Al-Masira news channel quoted an unnamed military source as saying on Wednesday.
The town of Zobab is located 40 kilometers to the North of Bab al-Mandeb and is of strategic importance.
Many more Blackwater mercenaries have been killed in the Yemeni attacks in recent weeks.
On December 9, 14 Blackwater mercenaries, including a British, a French, an Australian and six Colombians were killed in an attack on Al-Amri military base in Zobab region in Taiz province near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
After pulling out its troops from Yemen, the UAE recruited and sent Colombian forces to Yemen to replace its regular troops.
Yemeni Army Spokesman Sharaf Luqman has said that the Blackwater forces dispatched to Yemen comprise Al-Nusra, the ISIL and Al-Qaeda terrorists.
The UAE had previously sent mercenaries from Latin America, especially Colombia, to Yemen without prior coordination with Saudi Arabia.
The United Arab Emirates has quietly built an army of Latin American mercenaries to fight for Yemen’s deposed government in a proxy war.
