(Wikipedia.com)http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/03/yemen-is-alqaeda-spring-saudi-arabia-decisive-storm.html#comment-1939623520
(Wikipedia,com)What seems to be a paradox with the drawdown of the Operations within Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan with (Operation Enduring Freedom) with the purported transitional operations like Operation New Dawn would result in the inadvertent re-emergence of inimical forces which would manifest into respective Islamic sectarian movements. The Sunni Awakening, back in 2010, which was in effect, and affect, was a Sunni contrived 'Neighbourhood Watch' localised militia group and network with Sunni dominated areas within Iraq, were subsequently armed ,and were logistically supplied, with NATO Humvees, NATO small arms. The Sunni Awakening paradoxically would, in turn, become a rebellious militia group engaging the Shia dominated Iraqi Army, and by natural progression would finally manifest themselves into the Islamic State fighters then known as ISIL. The Snowball effect would include the influx of Fedayeen fighters from throughout the Islamic Sunni world who would come willingly to the call to Jihad into the IS and Iraq and Syrian Levant region in shoring up the military strength of IS. Conversely, the Hezbollah and Shia led sides would find their global Jihadist Fedayeen just as willing and able to join in the fistfight as well. The Arab Springs regions would become fertile grounds for Islamic sectarian conflict that will invariably lead to the present Yemeni crisis. Paradoxically, due to the nature of the sectarianism conflict between Shia and Sunni the Operation Decisive Storm may in fact lend an ideological and material support for the Sunni narrative within the Al Qaeda and IS military machine against the Yemeni Houthis which invariably are Shia (Zaidi version) and Hezbollah (Iranian/Syrian Shia) supported forces. Herein lies the rub of Sunni/Shia sectarianism and with the Sunni Clerics influencing the military agendas to play against both sides of the polemic divide within the confusion that is the Middle East conflict zone.
Sources: Al-Monitor.com,http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/03/yemen-is-alqaeda-spring-saudi-arabia-decisive-storm.html#comment-1939623520, 31st March, 2015.
By Tim Tufuga
