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| Son of rebel leader offers to surrender |
| 2005-06-08 |
| SANAA, Yemen, June 8 (UPI) -- The son of a Yemeni rebel leader offered to surrender to authorities with 60 followers of his father in return for amnesty, a military source said. The source said Abdul Malek al-Houthy, son of Badreddine al-Houthy, sent a letter to President Ali Abdullah Saleh offering to stop inciting the public against the state, to cease armed actions and attacks against public and private properties and suspend the rebellion as a prelude to an agreement to surrender to the authorities "in order to be able to live as a good citizen and abide by the law." According to the source, who spoke to UPI on condition of anonymity, the president discussed the content of the letter with the army command and the governor of the province of Saada on the Yemeni-Saudi border, a hotbed for the rebels. "There has been no reaction or response by the government to al-Houthy's offer so far," the source said. Badreddine al-Houthy took over the leadership of the rebellion after his elder son, Hussein, was killed by government forces last September after three months of fighting in the rugged mountainous area of Saada. |
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