Word: badr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the mountains of Yemen last week came news of a sharp turn in the fighting that greatly improves the prospects of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and dims the hopes of victory for the tenacious royalist tribesmen of Imam Mohamed el Badr. A brisk, twelve-week campaign has put Nasser's troops and tanks in control of most of the country...
...base for the defense of sources that supply Britain with an annual half-billion dollars worth of oil. Not surprisingly, Egypt's President Nasser would also like to "liberate" Aden. With 40,000 troops in Yemen supporting the rebels who deposed the despotic Imam Mohammed el Badr in September 1962-Nasser's force has actually grown by some 12,000 since he agreed a year ago to begin withdrawing his troops-he has been turning more and more heat on the British outpost...
...Egyptian soldiers are still in Yemen propping up the republican regime of President Ab dullah Sallal. All the while, money and munitions from the monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan still pour across the 25-mile-wide buffer zone to royalist tribesmen supporting dethroned Imam Mohamed el Badr. So far as the actual fighting is concerned, it is still a stand off, with the republicans controlling the cities and the plains, and the royalists holed up in - and defending - key strong points in the central mountains...
...mile demilitarized strip along the Saudi-Yemeni frontier, and 3) supervising the phased withdrawal of 28,000 Egyptian troops who have spent the last eight months bloodily propping up the republican regime of President Abdullah Sallal against the royalist mountain tribes fighting to restore deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr to his 1,000-year-old throne...
...mountain headquarters in Yemen, the royalist leader Imam Badr told newsmen he intends to keep fighting against the "Egyptian colonization of Yemen," and boasted that if the Egyptians ever did leave, "we would occupy the entire country within a week." As for the United Nations, Badr said, "I am not interested in the U.N., which I once thought stood for justice. Only the people of Yemen will achieve a solution. We put our trust in God and in our people...