The "quiet" war between the Sunnis and Shiites won't remain quiet for much longer ...

it does not matter how many multitudes of PR and Law firms Saudi Arabia has on it's payroll to tone down what's happening in Yemen and elsewhere.  Pandora's box has been thrown open and the deed cannot be undone.  Saudi Arabia has been carrying a proxy war against Iran  on Yemeni soil for the last so many years.... so very quietly that even a pin when dropped will make more noise than the grenades and bombs going off in Yemen.  That's the power of  the world media whose cogs are oiled with Saudi money. 

Amid a new flare up in violence  in the northern provinces of Yemen, al-Houthis, a group of Shia rebel the Yemeni government has fought for years as it accused it of advocating a return to the ancestral rule of the Imam, warned that Saudi Arabia had a plot to open a new front into Yemen’s Northern borders in a bid to attack the country’s Shiite population through its “hirelings and mercenaries”.

Saudi Arabia, which shares borders with the rebels’ areas, fought the Houthis in Sa’ada in 2009 after they seized Saudi territory.

The group which has used the breakdown in security to its advantage by seizing more territories, having now three provinces under its control- Hajjah, al-Jawf and Sa’ada- is embroiled in a sectarian conflict with Salafis, puritanical Sunnis who classify the Shia rebels as “heretics”.

In a statement released on Sunday by the group’s media office, al-Houthi underlined that the Saudi plot was aimed at an aggression of al-Hajjah province, distancing the Yemeni people from their revolution and stirring sectarian strife in the country. ...