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Arabia
Prominent Ma'rib sheikh defects to National Salvation Government of Yemen
2022-06-22
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A prominent sheikh in Marib province announced on Tuesday his arrival in the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i capital of Sana’a, after having defected from the Saudi-led coalition forces.

Sheikh Ali al- Otaibi Abu Qassi posted pictures with dozens of members of the tribe and his lover companions while he was in the city of Sana’a.

Al-Otaibi’s arrival came days after Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
released him after four years of captivity.

Sheikh al-Otaibi vowed to revolt against those who arrested him, through verses of poem attached to photographs of his arrival in Sana’a.

Over the past years, al-Otaibi was known for his positions in favour of the coalition, and was an influential figure in Ma’rib before being arrested by the Saudi intelligence service and transferred to a prison in the kingdom along with number of pro-Saudi sheikhs whose fate remains unknown.
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