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| Shiite Rebels Say Yemen President Hadi 'Wanted for Justice' |
| 2015-02-26 |
| [YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemen's Iranian catspaws said Tuesday that President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the rebel-controlled capital earlier this month and has begun reconstituting his authority in the south, is "wanted for justice." The move escalated a crisis that threatens to split the Arab world's poorest country between 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... rebels, who control the capital Sanaa and much of the north, and Hadi, who enjoys wide support in the formerly independent south. The growing chaos also threatens to undercut U.S. efforts to combat Yemen's powerful al-Qaeda affiliate, which has been linked to several failed attacks on the United States and grabbed credit for the assault on a French satirical magazine last month. In the latest sign of the country's growing lawlessness, a Frenchwoman working for the World Bank was kidnapped Tuesday in front of a ministry building in Sanaa, where several Western countries, including La Belle France, have shuttered their embassies. No one grabbed credit for the abduction. The rebel-run state news agency SABA quoted the Houthis' Revolutionary Committee as saying Hadi's "reckless and erratic actions harmed the Yemeni people," and called on the international community to consider him a runaway. The group warned state employees and even diplomatic missions against dealing with Hadi as president, saying they would be "held accountable." |
| Posted by:Fred |