The festivities erupted inside the brigade located in Arhab district, some 30 kilometers north of Sana'a, as officers and soldiers demanded to dismiss the commander of the brigade, Brig. General Mohammad Hussein Al-Bokhaiti.
Military sources speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
affirmed that the troops revolted against their commander who is accused of corruption, looting public money and committing violations.
The sources said that festivities broke out as the officers and troops rejected orders of Al-Bokhaiti to storm a village nearby to the brigade which is affiliated to the Republican Guard led by son of the outgoing 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...Marib Press, an independent online newspaper, quoted military sources as saying that the troops refused the orders, arguing that there is no justification for the raid.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
forces of the Republican Guard blocked the main road linking between the capital, Sana'a and Arhab, eyewitnesses affirmed.
They pointed out that military forces extensively deployed along the road amid fears of protest extension to other brigades of the Republican Guard existed in the region.
News reports had revealed that Ahmed Ali Abudllh Saleh directed to use force against the protest movement that hit many camps of the Republican Guard in the framework of what has become known as the institution revolution.
The revolution of institutions have hit many public authorities and resulted in the ouster of tens of corrupt officials in Yemen, as employees insisted on firing their corrupt bosses.
Among those officials who lost their positions as a result of this new revolution were Ali Hassan Al-Shater, Major General Ali Hassan Al-Shater, chief of the Armed Forces Moral Guidance Department and Abdul Khaleq al-Qadhi, chairman of Yemenia airlines.