...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh...
, said Sunday that Sana'a is occupied by 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...
holy warriors who were supported by the Iranian Islamic Theocratic
Republicto carry out a coup, according to al-Jazeera channel.
According to Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
h, Hadi accused the Houthis of implementing Iran's agenda during the previous years, controlling the state's institutions, the army and bringing about the state's collapse.
The channel also quoted Hadi as threatening with confronting the Houthis so as to maintain the country's unity.
Hadi added that the Houthis along with Iran and 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...
thwarted the GCC initiative which was signed between the political forces following the February 11th revolution, and worked for straining the political transition.
The Houthi group tightened their grip on the capital Sana'a and other towns in northern Yemen last February 7, when they announced what is called the constitutional declaration which they stated authorizes them to manage the country.
This came during Hadi's meeting with a political and tribal delegation from al-Baidha and Marib Provinces, led by head of the General People's Congress's party in Marib, Abdul-Wahed al-Qabli.