Yemen, Libya and the Houthis
The information official in the Libyan embassy and the Libyan Brotherhood Office in Sana’a has refused to comment on charge of killing that chief editor of Akhbar Al-Youm (Today News) claimed against the Libyan ambassador to Yemen.
Chief editor of Akhbar Al-Youm, Ibrahim Mujahid, said he had received a telephone call from Libyan ambassador who threatened him as saying he would not await the justice or the state presidency to take his right but he would take it himself.
Mujahid has raised a letter to the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) saying that Al-Shumoa Press Foundation that runs Akhbar Al-Youm might make a sit-in before the syndicate premises and stop its publications unless fair measures are taken against the Libyan ambassador. The letter, which NewsYemen has a copy of, said the ambassador “outlawed diplomacy law and courtesy”.
Mujahid asked for sending the ambassador away “from the country which he did not respect its constitution and laws that organize the diplomatic work”, according to the letter.
Mujahid said that the ambassador’s threats came after Akhbar Al-Youm reported a visit by the Libyan ambassador to Saada coinciding with the visit of Yahya al-Houthi to Libya.
Saada was a place of rebellion led by Hussein Badraddin al-Houhti, brother of Yahya al-Houthi, for two years.
Akhbar al-Youm reported that leaderships in Libya have agreed in the meting with Yahya al-Houthi to support associates of al-Houthi who fought the government forces in Marran Mountains in Saada province in 2004 and whose associates continued to fight the sate forces in 2005.
The paper said the visit of the Libyan ambassador to Saada came as the Yemeni-Saudi borders in Fard Mountains witnessed some unrest.
It said that al-Houthi associates attacked the Saudi border guards and the Saudi company that is carrying out a road project near Saada.
