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| Houthi Leader Blames Separatists in South Yemen for Political Stalemate |
| 2015-01-29 |
| [YEMENONLINE.INFO] The 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... rebel group that has seized control of Yemen's capital said on Tuesday that separatist forces in the south were responsible for the impasse preventing an end to the political crisis convulsing the country. "Some forces in the south are taking provocative steps," the leader of the group, Abdel Malik al-Houthi, said in a televised speech. "This country is for all of us and can fit all of us." Mr. Houthi proposed new talks in the speech, and his group released a presidential aide seized 10 days ago as a good-will gesture. But there was no indication that his speech signaled an easing to the crisis in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country and an incubator for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... . |
| Posted by:Fred |