6 November 2009 / REUTERS , DUBAI
The Saudi air force is attacking rebel strongholds in northern Yemen after rebels killed two Saudi security men on the border, the Saudi-owned, London-based Elaph Web site reported on Thursday.
Saudi government officials said only that the air force had bombed rebels who had seized a border area inside Saudi Arabia, which they said Saudi forces had now recaptured. The officials said at least 40 rebels had been killed in the fighting. Al Jazeera televisison quoted a rebel spokesman as saying the Saudi air force had raided six locations inside Yemen, followed by a heavy attack on one position which had been hit by about 100 missiles in one hour. There was no official confirmation from Riyadh or the Yemeni capital Sanaa of cross-border Saudi air strikes. for the kingdom, which is building a high-tech border fence to prevent infiltration.
