1/2 YEMEN: Houthis can be contained. Edmund Fitton-Brown.former UK ambassador to Yemen
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CVS, I in the World. I'm John Bachelor. The Huthies of Yemen. Who are they? What do they want? |
| 0:07.0 | My memory of the Huthies is very dim reaching back more than a decade but recently they're much in the news in the |
| 0:15.1 | last 24 hours launching a drone boat to destroy shipping in the Arabian Gulf and in the |
| 0:21.8 | Red Sea and they've launched drones and ballistic missiles as well. |
| 0:26.0 | We're told that they acquire much of their hardware, their weaponry from Iran. |
| 0:32.0 | We're also told that they've launched against Israel, and Israel |
| 0:35.4 | responded recently. However, who are these guys? What do they see in |
| 0:40.4 | involving themselves in the war in the Middle East, in Israel. What do they get out of it? |
| 0:47.2 | I welcome Edmund Fitton Brown. He is right now a senior advisor to the Counter-extremism Project. |
| 0:54.7 | Importantly, however, he is the former British United Kingdom Ambassador to Yemen, |
| 0:59.9 | as well as a coordinator of the UN Security Council's monitoring team for ISIS, |
| 1:04.4 | a-Q and the Taliban. |
| 1:07.2 | I hear Edmund Fitten-Brown often on Long Word Journal making podcasts with Bill |
| 1:12.2 | Rajo and he's posting now. |
| 1:14.2 | So I recommend following because the Huthies are increasingly part of the problem, not part of |
| 1:20.0 | the solution. |
| 1:21.0 | Edmund, a very good day to you. |
| 1:23.4 | The Huthies have a history, but the puzzle is where do they come from and what is it that they |
| 1:28.8 | want? |
| 1:29.8 | Yemen is torn apart. |
| 1:31.7 | It's in Civil War. They're al-Qaeda elements. They're |
| 1:33.7 | probably ISIS elements. They're part of it is under the control of |
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