None of Saudi objectives achieved in Yemen: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with Hussain al-Bukhaiti, an activist and a political commentator in Sana’a, to discuss Saudis ongoing military aggression against Yemen.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Over a hundred days at this point Saudi death toll in terms of their soldiers is also mounting but again it does not appear that there is a game plan on the part of the Saudis in terms of particular goal that  they are achieving aside for the destruction of infrastructure and of course the loss of civilian lives, as we speak the death toll keeps mounting?

Bukhaiti: Yes, actually the Saudis they have not got any plan and all their goals that were declared at the beginning at this so-called “Decisive Storm” to bring Hadi back and to bring his legitimacy and to send Ansarullah Houthis back to Sa’ada, they have not succeeded in any of this.

So the only plan they have now to bomb as much as they can, to destroy as much as they can and to kill as many people as they can and we have been seeing lately that they started to target homes and schools and medical centers across the country especially in Sa’ada and they tried as well a new method that they have used before like set a new extremist camp in Ma’rib after losing al-Jawf and they set new camps in Hadhramaut, so they are willing to have the same destruction they have brought to Syria and to Iraq. They want to have the same thing in Yemen.

And two days ago the loyalists of Saudis and extremists and al-Qaeda in the south, they have lost their largest army base which is called the 31 Brigade. This brigade has 95 tanks and it contains four large battalions and it was attacked and secured when Hadi left and fled to Aden. So this entire battalion in Aden is under the security and control of the Popular Committee and the Yemeni army. So every day the Saudis are getting a lot of losses inside Yemen and as well at the border of Saudi Arabia.   

Press TV: So let’s see here, if we were to take a guess at this point based on your expertise over a hundred days, why do you think Saudi Arabia has not moved in on the ground? They are being targeted obviously by the Ansarullah fighters and they are mounting some losses, as you said they just lost an army base. Are they trying to keep bombarding Yemen until they get strength to move in on the ground or do you think that is not the case?   

Bukhaiti: I do not think this is the case because I do not think they will be able at any time to move inside Yemen because we know that they have a strong air force which is mainly controlled and they got help from the United States and Britain but on the ground the British and the United States will not send troops on the ground as they do with the Saudi air force.

And the Saudis have tried that in 2009 and they failed miserably and now as well we see that they are losing dozens of soldiers either killed or injured every day, several tanks every day and Yemeni army and the Popular Committee are controlling the entire Yemeni and Saudi border. So I think the only plan they have now just to bomb as much as they can because they cannot stop now when they have not reached any of their goals.   

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