Because there is nothing louder than the sound of bullets

# Newsweek
Because there is nothing louder than the sound of bullets () {

Date = October 29, 2014
By = Laura Kasinof 

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“It doesn't seem that Hadi has much control,” says Nadwa al-Dawsari, a Yemeni civil society activist and researcher, who specialises in tribal conflict. “In his last speech, he asked the Houthis to evacuate Sana’a and other cities immediately, but they are still there and expanding. It only means that he no longer has control over Houthis, security or even his own military forces.”

The Houthis’ takeover also threatens to bring a sectarian-based conflict to Yemen not unlike those being fought in Iraq and Syria. The Houthis are traditionally Shia, .. They preach a Shia’a revivalist doctrine and have been engaged in an on-again, off-again war with the Yemeni state since 2005.

“There is a strong atmosphere of apprehension and rumours about the motives of the Houthis, including one that they want to claim a long lost right to rule based on religious grounds,” says al-Dawsari. “While this might not be true, the Houthis’ expansion by force across different areas of Yemen is reinforcing this perception and instigating radical responses based on that ­perception.”

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Source = http://t.co/puzcmFwRa }