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| Houthi group declares participation in dialogue |
| 2012-06-01 |
| [Yemen Post] The Saada-based 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. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... group declared on Thursday that it will participate in the inclusive dialogue conference on the basis of "healthy foundations that could end the state's stalemates." The participation declaration came after the Dialogue Liaison Committee met on Thursday with the Houthi leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi in Saada. According to the Yemeni News Agency (Saba), the committee affirmed that an appropriate ground will be prepared for the success of the national dialogue. The Dialogue Liaison Committee held on Thursday morning a meeting presided over by Abdul-Karim Al-Iriani, chairman of the committee, with the attendance of a representative of a UN reprehensive, Abdul-Raheem Sabir. The eight-member liaison committee to started a planned national reconciliation dialogue as part of a UN-backed power transfer deal. Yemen's inclusive national dialogue is designed to settle down disputes between Yemeni political factions under the supervision of Hadi in accordance with the GCC power transfer deal deal that eased 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... out of power. UN Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar had appreciated effort exerted by Yemen's president to advance the country's transition to democracy, pointing out that security forces are having some success against al-Qaeda. Hadi inherited a state that is mired in crises as it is engaged in conflicts in the South and rebellions in the north. The Yemeni army has been conducting an offensive against al-Qaeda in some towns of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... Though the army achieved progress in fighting Al-Qaeda, as reports affirm, Al-Qaeda seeks to shift its war across other Yemeni cities. On May 21, about 100 soldiers were killed and hundreds others were maimed in a suicide kaboom in which al-Qaeda grabbed credit for. |
| Posted by:Fred |