Armies of Liberation

The Air Force wants to overthrow the president’s brother.

Al Shawa: The (pro-rev) army (led by Ali Mohsen al Ahmar) said in a statement yesterday that Mohammed Saleh al Ahmar left in a Russian cargo plane yesterday that took off from Sanaa airport, in “the process of smuggling money abroad after the protests plaguing the rest of the pillars of the family and the most recent sit-air forces to demand the dismissal of Mohamed Saleh al Ahmar, who is about to catch up with his brother Ali, God’s favor, as a result of these protests.”

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black; Ali Mohsen is another big thief and murderer.

Actually Wednesday was the fifth day but details in English:

Yemen troops demand dismissal of Air Force chief (AFP)

SANAA — Thousands of soldiers continued sit-ins Tuesday for a second day in Yemen demanding the “official” ouster of the Air Force commander they accuse of corruption, AFP correspondents and military officials said.

They are demanding the dismissal of General Mohammed Saleh al-Ahmar, a half brother of President Ali Abdullah Saleh who left Yemen on Sunday for the United States following a year-long uprising against his 33 years in power. (Read on …)

Click Here. Its looking a lot like Saada in the day. The escalating cycle of violence include standard tactics (indiscriminate bombing of residential areas and denial of food) and demonstrate that the Sana’a regime is not a sectarian but rather a politically motivated slaughterer of its own citizens.

One million hand prints for a civil state: Red is for the people murdered and blue is for peace. (Link here.)

Whenever I am considering retiring, some one beats up* al Khaiwani

and just pisses me off all over again.

Update, ripped shamelessly from Howie:

(Read on …)

The southern movement held protests across the south yesterday, 10/14/11, the 48th anniversary of the birth of the anti-colonial independence movement in 1963 that led to the expulsion of the UK and the formation of the PDRY in 1967 . Large pro-independence protests were seen in Aden, Hadramout, Lahj and Shabwa in contrast to the previously low, if not non-existent, turn out by southerners for the 2011 Yemeni Youth Revolution protests. Protesters were asked to go to Aden or Radfan if possible. These numbers as shown in the photos are at about the levels that southerners protested from 2007-2010. The Southern Movement seeks an independent state and claims that the south was occupied by Northern Yemen following the 194 civil war, contravening UN SC resolutions 928 and 931.

SM leaders and members within Yemen reject efforts by expats like al Attas and ANM to find a consensus for a federal system, including results of the Cairo conferences. Last month, General Nassar al Nuba invited UN envoy Jamal bin Omar to the south to discuss the SM position and opportunities for resolution. Beyond a handful of individual efforts by YRR activists, no international or official YYR efforts have been made to engage the Southern Movement. Several southern leaders were appointed without discussion to the National Revolutionary Council and all immediately resigned. The photo below was taken yesterday in al Mansoura, Aden:

The following in Radfan, Lahj:

Photos Hadramout here and also here.

Also: An art show by revolutionaries

My fascination with Yemen was never about the morally bankrupt and corrupt Salah regime but with the people who stood to fight it. The following videos were taken today and show the city’s response to the shelling of residential areas. For more on the violence overnight that killed eight and wounded dozens in Taiz, see my article.

aftermath

women march

men march

childrens march

In 2010 Anwar with Saleh? It wouldn’t be odd since Saleh always defended Awlaki as a “normal preacher” and never asked the tribe to hand him over according its Sheikh. The Sanaa regime did find Awlaki guilty of something in absentia, a few months ago I think it was. I thought the photo wasn’t him when I first saw it, too heavy but he does did look different from the side. it doesn’t really matter anyway I guess.

Other Awlaki death buzz: Anwar Awlaki’s father Nasser joined the rev in March. Ali Mohsen says Anwar got hit because of his father’s disloyalty to Saleh.

Awlaki was on his way to or from a meeting with al Zindani, a state paper says. The ehaddis are whining that Zindani set him up to clear his name with the US.