article_snippet: The Saudis say The Saudis want to restore the Yemeni government, a key U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda, which was kicked out of the capital by Shiite rebels in Yemen earlier this year.
article_snippet: Having Yemen fail cannot be option for us or for us coalition partners," said Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, referring to the other nations in Yemen supporting a military campaign against Shiite rebels in Yemen.
article_snippet: the Shiite-led Iraqi government, for the Shiite-led Iraqi government part, condemned the offensive, calling for an immediate halt to Saudi-led airstrikes, state media reported.
article_snippet: But The Saudis and other Gulf nations stepped up the military campaign in September, seizing multiple government buildings.
article_snippet: Early Thursday, the Saudi-led strikes began.
article_snippet: Saudi Arabia has also pledged 150,000 soldiers to the coalition that's intervening in Yemen, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV network reported Early Thursday, raising the possibility of a ground offensive.
article_snippet: It wasn't immediately clear if other nations in the coalition that's intervening in Yemen were offering any ground troops.
article_snippet: A ground offensive isn't a decision that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud would take lightly.
article_snippet: Saudi Arabia, all these years, has avoided sending troops into Yemen.
article_snippet: It's a quagmire for the Saudis," CNN intelligence and security analyst Bob Baer said in January.
article_snippet: Beyond the campaign, the Saudis and their allies say the Saudis and their allies want to find a political solution for the violence-plagued nation.
article_snippet: The aim is to bring back Yemen's "security and stability through establishing a political process," said a statement from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait.
article_snippet: Al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, said American forces are not involved in the airstrikes.
article_snippet: the Saudis don't have the intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance capability to determine all of these targets," Francona said.
article_snippet: the Saudis've had to have had some help, and I think it probably came from us.
article_snippet: Arab and senior Obama administration officials tell CNN that an interagency U.S. coordination team is in Saudi Arabia.
article_snippet: an interagency U.S. coordination team is in Saudi Arabia said the Saudis have not specified what the Saudis want yet, but will probably ask for American air support, satellite imagery and other intelligence.
article_snippet: us can help with logistics and intelligence and things like that, but there will be no military intervention by the U.S.," a senior administration official said.
article_snippet: The Sunni militant group that controls large areas of Iraq and Syria claimed responsibility for attacks on Shiite mosques in Sanaa that killed more than 130 people this month.
article_snippet: But the big question now is whether the Saudi-led coalition will take any action against the Sunni terrorist groups.