Armies of Liberation

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.

Ibb “Revolutionary Will”

Taiz “Revolutionary Will”

Other demos including in Sanaa and Dhamar were held against the inane US policy in Yemen that marginalizes, insults and ignores the millions seeking a democratic future. One person was killed and several wounded during the funeral march of Ahmed Darwish, tortured to death in Aden jail a year ago during the tenure of General Qiran The murdered man, Dr. Jeyab, was the son of Ali Alsaadi a leader in the southern movement. One killed in Republican Guard’s bombing of al-Sama mountain near Arhab. The protesters refused to meet with Feltman, due to the US’s constant obstruction of the rev and continuing support for the barbaric regime, and dedicated this week’s protests to condemning the US and Saudi Arabia.

al Masdar: The demonstrators chanted “O my America .. Saud Ali Saleh will not be back.” And other slogans demanding to drop the rest of the regime.

The (Organizational Committee of the popular revolution of youth) drew in a statement received by the source online, and sent greetings “to all young people who refused to attend the meeting (with Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman).” She stressed that the position of the trip came from the revolutionary responsibility and an expression of absolute rejection of the role of the American Revolution against the scandalous what the U.S. ambassador in Sana’a. According to the statement.

She said that the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa, proclaimed himself “the patron of policy dialogues between the parties and the purpose of lengthening life of the system and try to convert the Revolution to a political crisis despite the barbarism of the system, which reached its case to the siege of ambassadors Gulf and European and U.S. Ambassador without finding a position as a deterrent against such conduct reckless, who abused customs and traditions of Yemeni.”

The committee said in its statement that “the lack of response the U.S. administration to the demands of the rebels for a meeting of the Security Council to discuss the violations of human rights and stand against the serious crimes committed by the regime to benefit in addition to not freeze his assets and his relatives all this strengthens our conviction that the U.S. position is not in the interest of the Yemeni people and stands against his will to freedom and dignity.”

The statement renewed confirmation of the commission to “clear its rejection of the initiative Gulf since the first day of the (…) announced that it does not meet the aspirations of the Yemeni people do not achieve the goals of the revolution to drop the system.”

The committee also criticized the regulatory Saudi position, and said “It was clearly evident to all the rebels in the fields and arenas that the Saudi intervention in the course of events has taken a negative attitude towards the revolution in Yemen and is working to prevent the achievement of objectives of the revolution to drop the rest of the staff of government family and about this we should point out that the Saudi position will be has implications for future large are not in anyone’s interest. ”

Update: Sanaa “Revolutionary Will” via twitpic:

The US is on the wrong side of history with a policy that is alienating millions while pampering Saleh and his political tribe. Update: protesters chanting that the US is the enemy of the people:

The demonstrators demanded that Saudi Arabia and the United States to stop playing with the blood of Yemenis at the expense of political interests and carried the United States responsible for the situation catastrophic and tragic for the displaced in Abyan, Lahj and the targeting of civilians by U.S. airline, which violates the sovereignty of the country, allegedly hit the sites of militant groups in Yemen.

And raising the participants in the march, banners refusing to intervene in the U.S. and Saudi support for the Yemeni Shan system in favor of “America the enemy of the peoples of the exciting wars,” “Al Qaeda justified the U.S. occupation of the homeland”

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Saleh regularly deploys deniable proxies to do his dirty work.

Leaked document reveals that the regime is planning to blow up civil war.

A secret document issued by the People’s Committee for Defending the Constitutional Legitimacy and the President in Dalii city revealed the distribution of weapons to citizens through the President of the GCP in preparation for civil war.

The document is to direct to governor of Dali city, President of the People’s Committe, Major General. Ali Qassim Talib to the cheif of security of Dalii to give out 325 pieces of Kalashnikov to Qataba directorate and handing it to President of GCP in that directorate Sheikh. Abdulrab Al-Marah according to the plan that was submitted to him as it is shown in the document.

Al-Wahdawi website published the document quoting other confirmed sources that the governor had distributed weapons to security personnel. More sources pointed that the ruler has already distributed some weapons to its members confidentially.

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Update: continuing information that both Ali Mohsen and Ali Saleh are resigning. Adjusted to: After a meeting, the consensus is Saleh will resign and Ali Mohsen will pledge not to run for president. Hamid and Mohsen announced on Al Jazeera that Saleh will go into exile but then AJ took down the link. Thus the initial news that both are going is really coming to its one going and one staying. Update: more precisely They said President Saleh and Gen. Ahmar agreed to the central demand of the protest movement: that a civilian council should rule in place of Mr. Saleh, instead of an Egyptian-style military council.:WSJ

The Youth Transitional Plan and Faisel Abo Rais came up with a plan as well.

New: A deal brokered by Ali Mohsen turns control of Saada entirely to Houthis, UN sanctioned arms dealer Faris Manna is new governor or adminstrator, also al Jawf entirely beyond regime control. The move shows that Mohsen is re-enforcing his criminal networks and power base already, since he and Manna are partners, and that he has no respect for civilian authority. Who is Mohsen to appoint a governor, if not the new kingmaker? Manna and the Houthis have a settled relationship, with Manna a long time supplier to them as well as groups across the region. Faris Manna was also the Saleh regime’s negotiator during the Saada War.

News/rumors of the meeting between Ali Saleh and Ali Mohsen say that Saleh said he would step down if Ali Mohsen did, and Mohsen agreed. They are going to hand power to VP Hadi. This is unconfirmed but from a reliable source. That would be very good. In my view it would be a unmitigated disaster on many levels and for many reasons for Ali Mohsen to stay in a leadership position in the new Yemen. Others are insisting its regime spun propaganda designed fracture the movement and they can only succeed in ousting Saleh with the help of Ali Mohsen. Update: apparently the news is more accurately that Saleh will resign and Mohsen will agree not to become the new president, but it doesn’t remove him from the power equation but will give him power without accountability.

Robert F. Worth, New York Times bureau chief, stopped at airport and banned from Yemen.

This I support: The Civil Block conference, established to guard revolution and ensure commitment “to the creation of modern civil and democratic state based on the principles of justice and equal citizenship, and to ensure national representation for all Yemenis and respect for their diversity of religious, sectarian and cultural, social, political, and drafting a national constitution new harmonized with other conventions and international legislation and human rights principles and to ensure complete separation and effective between the authorities and is consistent with the principles of good governance, and to ensure that the new state of the representation of women’s full of Yemen, and the abolition of all forms of discrimination that prevent the participation of public or detract from their right.” Nice.

Saada: Ahram English: Dubai police have foiled a bid to smuggle 16,000 guns from Turkey to Yemen’s northern province of Saada, the stronghold of Shiite rebels, the Gulf emirate’s police chief said on Thursday….The consignment, which landed in Dubai by ship for transit to northern Yemen, was made up of 16,000 guns. It was bound for Saada, “we can’t say to which side, but definitely not to the government,” Khalfan said. See story above about Faris Manna.

Mukallah: Xinhua: At least three soldiers were injured in fresh clashes between republican guard forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and defected army forces in the southeast province of Hadramout on Thursday, local witness said.

The first transitional plan published with the list 100 excluded (but not AMA) is also on scribd, seems an Islah product. Just wanted to link it for future reference.

Crisis Group: “Ironically, the most powerful current backers of the protest movement — Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar’s brothers and salafi leaders such as Sheikh Abd-al-Majid al-Zindani — are long-time regime insiders and symbols of the status quo.” I thought Ambassador Feirestein was engaging in histrionics when he said last week-end that the US would have problems with Zindani as president or in a major role. I couldn’t imagine it, not even remotely. But as the week progressed, I began to see that it is possible.

Saudis may back Mohsen over Saleh: Firedoglake quotes the FT:

Saudi Arabia would like to see a quick and smooth transition of power in Yemen, where Mr Saleh has been clinging to power in spite of weeks of protests and the dramatic narrowing of his support base, say analysts close to the government in Riyadh. And the kingdom is now concerned that the situation could devolve into a Libyan scenario in which Mr Saleh uses his presidential guards against the people and the army, transforming a revolt against the regime into a civil war.

“For Saudi Arabia, the end results for any mediation will be to guarantee stability and a smooth transition of power,’’ says Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi analyst. “The kingdom will not fight for Saleh … We have very bad experiences with him. The man’s survival makes no difference.”

This was the first Friday before many thousands more arrived. Protesters in Taiz have one chant: Ali Saleh must go

Hopes of an authentic Yemeni democracy suffered a blow last week when a controversial new election law was approved by Parliament. The move triggered a protest by opposition MP’s in parliament as well as civil activists outside the building, where they were attacked by riot police. The following video was shot on December 14 and shows protesters chanting, “No to injustice, no to tyranny,” prior to an assault by riot police. The protest was organized by Women Journalists without Chains and brought together journalists, human rights activists as well as concerned citizens and opposition party members.

Following Yemen’s 2006 presidential election, the Joint Meeting Parties, the coalition of major opposition parties dropped its challenges to the election result (which predictable returned President Saleh to his throne) in return for an agreement to revise the election laws. The ruling GPC and the JMP agreed to a reform agenda that was largely in line with recommendations from the EU. One topic explicitly included was changing the voting method from “first past the post” to a proportional representation or list method. The current system gives a strong advantage to the ruling party and over the years has diminished the ability of opposition parties, minorities, independents and women to gain seats.

With no progress or meaningful negotiations concluded following the 2006 election, Yemen’s 2009 parliamentary elections were delayed until 2011 to allow time for meaningful negotiations. The two sides again failed to reach common ground or even hold prolonged discussions. The JMP termed the new law “a coup against democracy” and legal experts consider the law unconstitutional. The state’s unilateral decision to forsake consensus further undermines public trust in an already de-legitimized government and will increase instability.

Maybe he’s in Aden at his mum’s house building a bomb in the kitchen, (just random speculation). Fahd was convicted in the USS Cole bombing and granted early release in 2007.

Yemen Observer: Al-Quso is believed to be hiding in the al-Said district of Shabwa, close to the Abyan province border according to Major Mansoor Hadi, security director of the Mayfa district of Shabwa. However, the major was unsure if this location was accurate.

Ahmed Salim abdul Salam, one of ‘Al al-Abdullah bin Dahah Sheikhs in Wadi Rafadh, al-Quso’s hometown, was unaware of his whereabouts.

“He’s not here. They released news about his death and we’re not sure whether he is alive or dead,” said the Sheikh. He also stated that al-Quso, along with Qasim al-Raymi, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, and Said al-Shihri lived in Wadi Rafadh for a period of time following al-Quso’s release in 2007.

“American drones flew over us yesterday and earlier today,” said the Sheikh when asked if he believed that US forces were actively engaged in searching for al-Quso.

Break my heart. He was supposed to be dead in Pakistan. What was that all about?