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Arabia
Houthis storm health ministry in Sanaa, threaten Saleh loyalist minister
2017-10-02
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Health Minister of the coup government in Sanaa, Mohammed Salem bin Hafeez, has accused 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 ...
gunnies of storming his office in the Yemeni capital and issuing a decision appointing one of their leaders instead.

The dramatic developments were revealed in a statement by the minister loyal to ousted 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...
on Saturday, that gangs accompanied by the Undersecretary of the Minister, Abdul Salam al-Madani, a Houthi leader, and Nashwan al-Atab, another Houthi leader, broke into his office.

Hafeez also revealed in a statement to a news agency, that the gunnies broke up a medical meeting he was holding with the directors of the offices of the Ministry of Health.

He said that "the meeting was canceled and a pistol was pointed to my face."

In addition, sources in the Ministry of Health confirmed that there have recently been differences between those loyal to Saleh and Houthi militias.

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