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| Houthi group demands to end US intervention |
| 2012-05-11 |
| [Yemen Post] The Saada-based Al-Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates.... group has demanded to end US interventions in Yemen's affairs as one condition out of ten others to engage in the national dialogue conference that will be held according to the GCC --brokered power transfer deal. In a statement, the group further asked the authorities to express its attitudes towards "US violations" against Yemen's illusory sovereignty, pointing out that US soldiers enter to Yemeni lands and kill Yemenis. Meanwhile, ...back at the pool hall, Peoria Slim had found another sucker... cooperation between the Houthi group and the family of the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... has recently increased. A front man of the General People Congress Abdul-Jani has lately said in a presser that the GPC had to ally with Al-Houthi as all regional and international forces abandoned it. A newspaper close to the Houthi group, Al-Hawiah, has said that one relative of Saleh met with the Iranian ambassador to Sana'a, but it did not mention the name of the person. Locals of Saada revealed that officers of the Republican Guard led by the elderly son of Saleh, Ahmed, are currently existed in Sada'a with the aim of training Houthi militias on military planning and military operation management. Media sources had said that Saleh opened a training centre for the Houthi group inside one brigade of the Republican Guard in Al-Khamseen street of the capital Sana'a. Al-Ahali Newspaper said that Ahmed Ali Saleh met on March 29 with six high-ranking members of the Houth group in Al-Subaha military camp and that they agreed to enhance mutual cooperation and cooperation. |
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