Armies of Liberation

You would think that Yemen’s main opposition political party alliance would be capable of issuing a statement in English. It really limits their impact on the broader discussion when all their thinking and policies are only presented in Arabic. Even the Houthis are issuing English statements now, the Southerners are getting better at it (at least theres some websites now). The JMP doesn’t even have a website.

Each party has a paper and often a website. In the case of Islah’s al Sahwa, the webiste is accessable in Yemen, but the Socialists’ al Esheraki is often blocked from being viewed in Yemen. Still the alliance itself should a) have a website and b) issue statements in English, even as a summary of the main points of the longer Arabic statements.

Sahwa Net -Yemen’s main opposition parties, the Joint Meeting Parties, have again called for stopping Saada war between government forces and al-Houthi rebellion.

JMP affirmed that violence only escalates strains, sheds further blood and complicate problems.

JMP also demanded to allow local and international relief organizations to access the damaged areas and help the displaced, expressing its willingness to take part in any national efforts to solve the Saada crisis.

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NEFA: Al-Qaida also claimed to have uncovered “a network of spies and collaborators who are in league with that criminal [Nayef] and which the government of Yemen is oblivious to. There are exciting details that we will announce later, Allah-willing.”

But where’s Saleh’s network of spies? That was always the justification given for all the terrorist releases, they were going to report back to the Yemeni government.

In 2005, during the second mediated settlement, Saleh announced the order to release 843 Sa’ada detainees, and the news got picked up as if the detainees were actually released. But the families reported in the next days and weeks that they still had no notice of their family member. The release of the detainees has been an ongoing issue since then and a top issue in negotiations with the rebels. Yemeni govt document ordering the release and witness testimony from imprisoned children below the fold. (Read on …)

Its good (although costly) that they are actually shipping food, instead of just giving money. Also the statement asks the Yemeni government to minimize civilians casualties, but its hard to do when the Yemeni military is bombing cities. Also the US is asking for the safe corridor for humanitarian supplies. Doesn’t seem like a lot to ask, when estimates are 150,000 civilians are at extreme risk. The Yemeni government formed a committee to think about it. The following is from the Embassy website:

U.S. provides $2.5 million in food aid for displaced people in Sa’ada, August 30, 2009

In response to the urgent humanitarian needs of the civilian population in Sa’ada governorate as a result of the resumption of military conflict, the United States of America, through USAID and its Food for Peace program, is pleased to announce a contribution of over $2.5 million to the World Food Program.

This contribution includes 3,440 metric tons of wheat and 460 metric tons of beans – enough to feed 100,000 people for two and one-half months. The first shipment of wheat is expected to arrive in the near future.

While the United States recognizes the responsibility of the Government of Yemen to defend its national territory against armed rebellion, this responsibility must be exercised in a manner that minimizes risk to the non-combatant civilian population.

The United States calls on both parties to the conflict to ensure the security of international relief workers in the region, and the safe passage of emergency relief supplies to camps housing internally displaced persons.

الولايات المتحدة تقدم مساعدات غذائية بقيمة 2.5 مليون للنازحين في صعدة
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Really it does. For more (or perhaps all known open source- its really that good), see the History Commons Entity, USS Cole

Somewhat related and because I dont know where else to throw it:

From the trial findings of the Cole families vs. the Sudan

the Court FINDS as a fact, that the explosives used in the Cole attack were sent by Al Qaeda operatives in Sudan. This finding is corroborated by the testimony of one of Bin Laden’s lieutenants in Sudan, Jamal Al-Fadl, who testified in criminal proceedings against Bin Laden arising out of the 1998 embassy bombings. (Ex. 32, United States v. Bin Laden, Case No. 198CR1023, Trial Tr. Feb. 6, 2001). Mr. Al-Fadl stated in sworn testimony in a trial before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that he worked under Bin Laden in Sudan; that he stored four crates of weapons and explosives at a farm in Sudan owned by Bin Laden; and that he shipped the four crates in an Al Qaeda-owned boat from a facility owned by the Sudanese military in Port Sudan to Yemen, where they were to be used to “fight the Communists.”(Ex. 32 at 262, 336-40.)

Well thats good. I’ll go back and update the prior post also. Odd that the Yemeni government was praising Kuwait’s decision, well not that odd.

News Yemen: A diplomat source in the Kuwaiti embassy in Yemen denied press reports that the Kuwaiti government had shut down the Yemeni Suhail TV.

The Kuwaiti diplomat said in an interview with Anneda independent newspaper that Kuwait has not issued a license to Suhail TV to broadcast from Kuwait and has not banned it.

Local press reported last week that the Kuwaiti authorities had banned Suhail to broadcast from Kuwait.

“We welcome this positive decision by the Kuwaiti authorities as Suhail TV’s programs incite sedition in the country,” media cited an unidentified Yemeni official as saying.

Minister of Information, who is also the spokesman of the government, praised the Kuwaiti decision and relations between the two countries.

Suhail TV, which is owned by Hamdan al-Ahmar, brother of well-known opponent Hamid al-Ahmar, denied any political involvement and affiliation with any political organizations.

A source in Suhail TV said it would resume broadcasting from a western country.

Update: Yemen Times

In a related event, thousands of Hashed tribesmen in Amran are preparing to participate in the war against the Houthis. Media sources said that 3,000 fighters – in addition to other fighters mobilized last week- were made ready to participate in fighting against the Houthis in Amran’s Harf Sufyan front. Fighters’ names were registered and each of them was given YR 20,000 and 100 machine gun bullets.

Tribal militia’s are a bad idea in general because they lack military training and discipline. From AFP

SANAA — Nine tribesmen who were fighting alongside the Yemeni army to crush a Shiite rebellion in the north of the country have been killed in a mortar attack, tribal sources said on Sunday.

Sixteen other fighters from the influential Shiite Hashed tribe were also wounded on Saturday when the Zaidi rebels fired mortar rounds on their positions in the mountainous region of Sawad, near Saudi Arabia, they said. (Read on …)

The Yemeni government has arrested journalists for covering the Sa’ada War. This case is a tactic of intimidation directed against the international aid organizations.

from al Nedaa here, I think this is it:

Detained an officer of the United Nations in Sana’a .. after hours of a report on the humanitarian situation
الخميس , 27 أغسطس 2009 م Thursday, August 27th, 2009 م

اعتقلت مجموعة أمنية عصر أمس وليد شرف الدين، الموظف في مكتب الأمم المتحدة بصنعاء. Security group arrested yesterday afternoon and Walid Sharaf al-Din, an employee of the United Nations Office in Sana’a. وقال مصدر قريب من أسرة شرف الدين إن ضباطاً يعتقد أنهم تابعون لجهاز الأمن القومي دهموا منزل وليد وقاموا بتفتيشه ثم اعتقاله ومصادرة كمبيوتره المحمول (اللابتوب)، وأوراقه. A source close to the family added that the officers believed to be affiliated to the National Security Service raided the house of Walid and then searched his arrest and the confiscation of his laptop (laptop), and leaves.
ولم يصدر أي تصريح عن مكتب الأمم المتحدة بشأن الاعتقال حتى مساء أمس. There was no statement from the Office of the United Nations detention until Sunday evening. وعزت مصادر خاصة الاعتقال إلى انزعاج السلطات اليمنية من تقرير نشرته الأمم المتحدة أمس. And private sources attributed the arrest to alarm the Yemeni authorities of the report published by the United Nations yesterday. أعده مكتبها في صنعاء، يتعرض إلى الأوضاع الانسانية في صعدة وعمران، ومسؤولية الأجهزة الحكومية والجيش عن معاناة النازحين في مناطق العمليات العسكرية. Prepared by the office in Sana’a, is exposed to the humanitarian situation in Sa’ada, Amran, and the responsibility of government agencies and the military for the suffering of displaced persons in the areas of military operations.

Update: Abdullah Hassan Aseeri, from Aseer in Saudi Arabia, Saudi origin and citizenship

JEDDAH // The suicide bomber who targeted Saudi Arabia’s deputy interior minister Prince Mohammed Bin Naif on Thursday had been based in an area of Yemen known to be a base for many al Qa’eda militants, Yemen’s foreign ministry said yesterday.

The fact that a militant was able to get into Saudi Arabia so easily and target a high-ranking politician and prince has added to fears in Riyadh that the current unrest in Yemen could pose problems in the conservative Gulf kingdom.

The suicide bomber had come from Mareb, east of Sana’a, Yemen’s foreign minister, Abu-Bakr al Qirbi, said. The foreign minister said the man claimed he wanted to hand himself over to Saudi authorities and urge other militants to turn their back on al Qa’eda.

Its not the unrest that is posing problems but the lack of the Yemeni government’s committment to battling al Qaeda. Of all the insurgencies the Yemeni regime is facing, including the southern separatists and northern rebellion, al Qaeda is the most manageable and the most beneficial.

With the Yemeni government is deploying terrorists in its war against Shiite rebels, as it has before, there is a little motivation to crackdown on the group. Note the Yemeni FM says Yemen knows that al Qaeda is based in Marib, but the government doesn’t attempt to engage them.

The Al Qaeda threat brings foreign aid from Saudi Arabia and the US to Yemeni President Saleh’s regime that other anti-government groups do not. Thus the southern protesters get shot on the street and the Yemeni military is currently bombing cities in the north, but al Qaeda gets a pass.

The Saudi/Yemeni border is difficult to control because much of the smuggling is accomplished by Yemen’s security forces.

Related: The recent arrest of 44 al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia shows the “Saudi AQ moved to Yemen” meme in a new light. I’m not questioning that there are Saudi AQ in Yemen, just the broader structure:

They are mostly aged from their late twenties to early sixties, the ministry said. He told Agence France-Presse: “These people have links to the original al Qa’eda organisation.

“These people, I would describe them like a base, they actually work in the area, recruiting young people, giving young people the ideology of al Qa’eda, and financing terrorism in the kingdom,” he added.

Alawsat:

the Interior Ministry’s statement focused on the high academic qualifications obtained by the detainees, their experiences and mature ages, and this is evident in the positions they held. The statement mentioned that some of those suspects abused the trust that had been placed in them.

However, in my opinion, the most important issue that the statement tried to highlight was that those suspects did not only encourage and support [terrorism] but are in a more advanced stage of violent activity by religious groups; a stage in which there is experience and high-level qualifications. Some of them work as lecturers, some are established employees and others are businessmen.

What a shocker! Just joking… Ok its Press TV and one of the participants in the war making the charge of President Saleh deploying terrorists, but there is a lot of other direct and circumstantial indications as well as a prior pattern of behavior starting in 2005.

Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda are helping the Yemeni government in its crackdown on Houthis, a dissident Yemeni lawmaker says.

“In recent months [Yemeni President] Ali Abdullah Saleh has taken many recruits of al-Qaeda who were afraid of falling into the hands of their regimes in countries like Egypt, Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. His plan was to use these fighters from al-Qaeda to battle the Houthis in Saada,” Yahya al-Houthi told Press TV on Saturday.

He said Saudi Arabia also supported the Yemeni government because the Yemeni government “is meeting all Saudi demands especially those related to terrorism.”

The Yemeni lawmaker claimed that Saudi Arabia wants Ali Abdullah Salih in power otherwise “many secrets” might be revealed.

“Yemen is now a main party in carrying out terrorist plots sponsored by Saudi Arabia,” al-Houthi said.

According the Yemeni dissident, Saudi Arabia is propagating Wahhabi ideology in Yemen and the country is used as a base for Al-Qaeda operatives.

He said a training camp had also been set up for al-Qaeda members in the Waila region.

“The area’s of Malahit and Hasana which the Houthis have taken control over were also area’s where weapons were transferred from Saudi Arabia to the terrorists,” the lawmaker said.

Sa'ada War August 2009

Yemeni Military Bombing August 2009

Press release by Abdelmalik al Houthi:

Planes launched air attacks in several different places (provinces of Sa’da, and Amran) focused on the villages and public housing, the new strategy seem to have the authority’s punishment and revenge against all those villages that are targeted by air.

(The village of Sudan) one of the destroyed the village’s where the water project of the village destroyed also,as well as the (camp Yasnem and Reghafa and Majz), and most residents of these areas displaced.

also targeted (market Al_Anad, Dahyan and villages Maran and the Directorate of Sageen and Harf Sufyan).

SEYAJ urges the Houthi rebels expell child soldiers. GOOD! How do we know children are on the battlefield? Look at the Houthis videos and you’ll see them. Also hiding in cities and villages constitutes the use of civilians as human shields, a practice that must end.

SEYAJ further calls for supplies for the children in refugee camps and and end to the bombing campaigns that target residential areas.

SEYAJ, as I’ve said a dozen times before, is a really good organization. For further info and media contacts, see the SEYAJ website

There are children among the pro-government tribal militias as well.

SEYAJ PRESS RELEASE: Child Soldiers, Child Refugees, Human Shields and Civilian Targeting

SEYAJ Organization for the Protection of Children urges the protection of the displaced children in Sa’ada. In a humanitarian disaster, SEYAJ estimates more than 50,000 children are residing in refugee camps without or are trapped directly in the areas of active combat. (Read on …)

This is a really good report from SABA, part 1 is posted here.

Jawf, forgotten governorate , 2-3
[24/August/2009] By: Faez al-Makhrafi, Translated by: Mahmoud Assamiee

SANA’A, August 24 (Saba)-Jawf needs 48 physicians, say officials, but there is only four and what is odd is that the whole governorate lacks ambulance.

” Jawf is the worst governorate in terms of health and more than 500, 000 people are in bad need of health services,” said Director of Health Office Hussein al-Ghanimi. “Even existing health facilities are mostly closed or opened formally with deteriorated services.” (Read on …)

Western Union is the best way to send money from the US to Yemen, and there is no danger as long as the funds are from legitimate sources for legitimate uses, including helping out family at home in Yemen… The full story here involves some sting where they thought the money was for Hezbollah.

3 Yemeni men caught in sting plead guilty in US court to money laundering

Associated Press
08/28/09 6:15 PM EDT ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Three Yemeni businessmen in western New York have pleaded guilty to money laundering charges, ending their federal court trial.

The men were charged in March 2007 after authorities said they sent $200,000 overseas knowing it was illegally obtained and could benefit the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which has fought Israel since the early 1980s and is considered by Israel and the United States to be a terrorist organization. The men weren’t charged with any terrorism-related crimes.

On trial were Yehia Ali Ahmed Alomari, Mohamed Al Huraibi and Saleh Mohamed Taher Saeed. They ran mini-marts and a restaurant in Rochester.

Under Friday’s plea agreements, the men face sentences ranging from 15 to 27 months. They remain free until they’re sentenced in December.

Defense lawyers say the men thought the money was simply to help fellow Yemenis.

This is an interesting article, Yemen’s last Zaiydi Iman, self billed as

Excerpted from the manuscript of a forthcoming book project, this article provides essential English-language source material on Husayn Badr al-Dīn al-huthī and an alternative framework to that of the mainstream media for exploring what are likely the genuine causes and nature of the wars against Sadah, Yemen, undertaken with backing and technical assistance from the United States, if not direct complicity in the name of then President George W. Bush’s administration’s ‘war on terror’.

The article is important because it adds something to the discussion (in English) that was not there before, which is a depth of knowlege of Zaidi and al Houthis doctrines. The historical documentation of the development of the Houthi ideology is quite detailed, although the final conclusions are debatable.

However, that being said, the section that postulates the US ordered the Sa’ada Wars is unsubstantiated. The author points to the US’s seeming lack of interest in the Sa’ada Wars, the Joint Coalition Task Force’s base in Dijabouti and Yemen’s rising balance of payments as proof of the invisable hand of the US , but other factors like the historical increase in oil prices during the period in question is not part of the calculus. (Read on …)

Update: Yemen Times

Al-Qadasi was the head of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Science and Technology Hospital in Sana’a, when he was attacked by a group of 18 tribesmen in January of this year.

He was stabbed by the sons and relatives of patient Ahmed Al-Maflahi, 85, after he informed their family of his death. His assailants stormed into the hospital and threatened the unarmed security staff, before finding Al-Qadasi and stabbing him with a jambiyya knife.

Tawfiq Al-Maflahi pinned down Dr. Al-Qadasi while his brother Yusif stabbed him in the back, causing him fatal injuries in his right lung and main arterial vessels.

Despite four operations, fellow doctors were not able to revive him and he died three weeks later.

Following the incident, doctors in both government and private hospitals in Sana’a, Taiz, Dhamar and Ibb went on a strike for weeks to protest against the attack and demand the attackers be brought to justice.

After huge pressure from physicians, activists, and the general public, the authorities arrested Tawfiq Al-Maflahi and four other involved in the murder.

Al-Qadasi’s family, relatives and friends have held protests every Tuesday in front of the cabinet demanding the arrest of main killer Yusif Al-Maflahi, but to no avail.

Although Yusif Al-Maflahi holds an American passport, rumors say that he still lives in Sana’a under the protection of a prominent sheikh.

The Funeral March for Dr. Derhem

There are many tragedies in Yemen, and throughout the world. Few are more pointless than the brutal murder of Dr. Derhem al Qadasi, stabbed to death by tribesmen in the hospital following the death of an elderly patient. The perpetrators are known, (and are on video) yet remain free due to influential connections, compounding the injustice.

Even Sa’ada City is cut off. The Yemeni government uses the depravaton of food as a pressure tactic, and has admitted as much.

GENEVA, August 28 (UNHCR) – Describing the situation in northern Yemen as dramatic, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres called Friday for opening humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave the conflict zone and humanitarian workers to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to thousands of displaced people in that remote part of the country.

Fighting continues in and around Sa’ada city in northern Yemen, Andrej Mahecic, a UNHCR spokesman, told journalists in Geneva Friday. “The town has been practically cut off from the rest of the world for a week now,” he said.

There were reports on Thursday of continuous fighting between Al Houthi rebels and government forces in northern Yemen, with both parties rejecting a cease fire and vowing to continue the hostilities.

“The residents, as well as those displaced in Sa’ada city, are unable to leave,” Mahecic said. “The state of emergency is still in force. The markets are closed in the city, resulting in an extreme shortage of food and other commodities as well as drastic price increases. Many are living on assistance from friends and relatives who had been able to store food.”

Inside northern Yemen, the Al Anad camp in Sa’ada is off limits. The other three sites for IDPs are still open but are becoming overcrowded as civilians flee the violence. Together with the authorities, UNHCR has registered 700 families in Sa’ada city “and if security permits we plan to distribute initial aid to some 370 families tomorrow,” Mahecic said.

In neighbouring Amran province, 60 percent of displaced are women and children. Some reported they lost documents as they fled, others are traumatized, and most left in a rush, leaving behind almost all personal belongings. Many are now living schools, clinics, hangars and barns.

Its like the same day, over and over, again and again. During the last war, Saleh released several terrorists from jail on the condition that they go to fight in Sa’ada against the Houthi (Zaidi) rebels, but some ran away instead. Among the most repetitive reports since 2005 regarding the Sa’ada War and al Qaeda were those of experienced terrorists training the tribal militias for the state. Some foreign al-Qaeda always managed to show up for the prior Sa’ada wars to fight for President Saleh. Mercenaries is a more apt term. This time they started congregating before the war even broke out. Saleh whistled for his dogs apparently.

The article mentions the discovery of the terror training camp in Sa’ada during the international search for the missing foreign medical workers in June, but omits that the al Qaeda camp was actually an “abandoned military facility.” The surprising thing was that they discovered only one. If you want to find terrorists training in Yemen, start looking by at the military camps. Multi-tasking we can call it, perhaps sub-letting.

The unanswered question remains, what is the quid pro quo? Beyond the obvious transit of jihaddis of all nationalities from Yemen to Iraq, the money laundering, criminal facilitiation, prison escapes and the free flow of black market goods and services to Somalia and the Gulf, what else is al Qaeda getting for battling Saleh’s enemies?

While low level corruption and incremental deal making accounts for a good part of the subversion, there’s more going on in the upper eschelon than General Ali Mohsen’s extremist office manager Ashkar issuing fatwas against the rebels (and foreign medical workers), more than someone leaking the route for the South Korean diplomats. Terrorism as policy, Yemen gets get away with it time and time again.

On a less controversial note and previously discussed in context of the southern protests, the internationalization of any conflict in Yemen under the banner of jihad poses the serious threat of drawing foreign fighters, considering the Yemeni environment is so hospitable. However the Yemeni government is the one defining the conflict(s) in terms of apostasy and providing the hospitable environment. And in this war, this time, everything is bigger.

The following is a current report from the Socialist Party’s mouthpiece Aleshteraki, google translated:

Reports of Salafi on the battlefield, Friday, August 28th – August 2009 كشفت تقارير صحافية عن مشاركة فعلية لمسلحين متشددين ينتمون إلى “السلفية الجهادية” في الحرب التي تشنها القوات الحكومية والمسلحين القبائل ضد جماعة الحوثي في صعدة وحرف سفيان فيما يعرف بالحرب السادسة على صعدة التي انفجرت في العاشر من الشهر الجاري ولا تزال مرشحة للاتساع الجغرافي والاجتماعي بصورة غير مسبوقة Press reports disclosed on the active participation of armed militants belonging to the “Salafist jihadi” in the war by government forces and armed tribesmen against the Houthi in Saada, Harf Sufian known as the sixth Sa’ada war that exploded on the tenth of this month is still a candidate for the geographical and social expansion in non – unprecedented….

وكانت تقارير صحافية قد تحدثت قبل اندلاع الحرب الأخيرة عن مجاميع أصولية ومليشيات حزبية تتجمع في محافظة الجوف بكامل أسلحتها المتوسطة والثقيلة على اثر خلاف دام بين مواليين للجماعة الحوثي وآخرين ينتمون إلى حزب التجمع اليمني للإصلاح في المنطقة حول إمامة مسجد آل الوزير في مديرية الزاهر خلف عدد من القتلى والجرحى قبل تدخل وساطة قبلية لإجراء صلح هش بين الطرفي ما لبث أن تجدد تحت عنوان مواجهة تمدد الحوثي إلى الجوفي ولكن هذه المرة باسم قبائل دهم Press reports had talked before the outbreak of the recent war on the fundamentalist groups and militias party gathering in al-Jawf province full of medium and heavy weapons following a long dispute between the pro-Houthi’s group and others belonging to the Yemeni Grouping for Reform in the area around the mosque imam Al minister in the Department of bright behind a number of dead and wounded before the intervention of tribal mediation for a fragile reconciliation between the terminal’s just to renew under the heading face Houthi to extend the underground, but this time on behalf of Dahm…

يشار الى ان النسيج الاجتماعي والمذهبي في صعدة والجوف قد ظل حائلا دون اختراق القاعدة لهذه المحافظات الحدودية والمتداخلة اجتماعيا مع قبائل واسر سعودية tفي امارة نجران ومحيطها It is said that the social fabric and sectarian in Sa’ada, Al-Jouf has remained a barrier to penetrate al-Qaeda for these border provinces and overlapping with social tribes and the families of Saudi Arabia in the Emirate of Najran t and its surroundings

وكان حادث اختطاف وقتل اجانب يعملون في المستشفى الجمهوري بصعدة قد كشف وجود معسكر للمجاهدين في منطقة وائلة التابعة لمحافظة صعدة والمحاددة للسعودية The abduction and killing of foreigners working in the Republican Hospital in Saada has revealed the existence of the camp of the Mujahideen in the region and your gods of the province of Saada and Mahaddp to Saudi Arabia (Read on …)

Arabic below the fold.

The Human Rights Institutes and Human Rights defenders for Human Rights expressed its profound concern as regards the Yemeni authorities’ detention of the eminent human rights defender, Yasser AL-Wazier a member of the Yemeni organization for Defending Human Rights, Democracy & freedoms – AL-Wazier had been forced disappearance for three months than continued his detention for a year, those measures taken against AL-Wazier are closely related to his eminent role in defending the victims of human rights violations in Yemen and all norms’ of discrimination, accordingly security bodies decided to punish him for his human rights activity and his professional life as a teacher and fighting all norm of discrimination done by the government against Zaidiah as the main consequences of Sa’adah War.

While stressing utter condemnation of AL-Wazier detention we deems the arrest a threatening message to all human rights defenders who boldly work on monitoring the daily violations of the Yemeni authorities against citizens. It is also an attempt to hush the victims’ voices that are heard by the world via Yemeni human rights organizations, despite the non-stop Yemeni oppression and the legislative arsenal that aims at terrorizing and undermining all government critics and opponents and all those seeking freedom and respect of human rights.

We calls upon the Yemeni authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Yasser AL-Wazier and Mr. Alezi Rajah, Mohammed,Ahmed, Abdulelah, Abdulrahman AL-Syani, Ahsan AL-Madani, Mohammed AL-Taiab,Mohammed AL-Kawoly, and Mohammed AL-Zubairi , stop all pressures exerted on human rights defenders, and set free all opinion prisoners religious. (Read on …)

The article from News Saddah is entitled “War has not begun yet.” Man, apparently being bombed (or perceived to be bombed) by a foreign country is much worse.

In a telephone conversation with the official office of Al-Sayed . Abdel Malik alhouthi to follow the latest developments, confirmed to us that what was published by the Office of the Houthi of Saudi air planes launched an attack on their areas.

In terms of our sources have confirmed to us the commander of the Houthi, said that he is preparing his followers to go to war with the long-term, and he is finalizing the necessary arrangements to do what is necessary in order to enter a war of attrition, and is expected to announce the start of the war in the coming hours, It should be noted here that these arrangements were not an infringement only after mediation failed and the announcement of authority pressing in rooting out sedition.

How do they know it was a Saudi plane anyway? Are the markings visable? This is so bad and spiraling faster, wider and deeper than any prior outbreak.

Almotamar.net – A Yemeni official source mocked Thursday the false news of the terrorist elements alleging that Saudi jetfighters carried out raids on some hideouts of the destruction elements.

The source said those lies and allegations are groundless and it has become familiar for these elements and some media outlets supporting them from outside Yemen repeating such lies. He described them as exposed attempts to involve the brother in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the ongoing confrontations of the armed forces and security against those elements to force them to surrender and quell the sedition that the elements ignited it.

If its not a regional proxy war now, it could very easily become one. This thing is going to blow. Yemen needs immediate confidence building measures, not only in Sa’ada, but also in the South. A partner in peace, so to speak. However, Saleh can’t engage in authentic power sharing or reconcile with his enemies. Co-opt, decieve or kill are the only games he knows. Unless, after three decades, he woke up a new man today.