"After our youngest son had seen Star Wars for the twelfth or thirteenth time, I said, "Why do you go so often?" He said, "For the same reason you have been reading the Old Testament all of your life." He was in a new world of myth." Bill Moyers, interview with Joseph Campbell
Sanaa,
July 17: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Thursday
that a Shiite revolt in the country's northwest was over,
but military sources said the rebels had seized a village
in the area shortly after.
Military
and local sources said at least 19 people, including a local
official and 12 soldiers, were killed in a series of ambushes
and clashes yesterday.
"The
war in Saada province ended three days ago, and God willing,
it will not resume," Saleh said at the opening of a summer
youth camp in the capital Sanaa, referring to the four-year-old
rebellion in which thousands of people have died.
"We
had victims because of extremism, ignorance and backwardness,"
he added.
Mountainous
Saada province on the border with Saudi Arabia has been the
heartland of the on-off uprising launched by Zaidi Shiite
rebels in 2004.
