Terror Free Somalia: The U.S Navy has intercepted a Somalia bound Yemeni cargo ship carrying weapons suspected to be for Somalia’s Al Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab militia.Somalia consulate in Yemen said the cargo ship en route from Yemen to Somalia coastline ended up in the hands of U.S Navy at the Gulf of Aden.The Somali consul Hussein Hajji Ahmed said U.S navy opened fire on the ship after the ship captain defied Navy orders to stop the vessel but later surrender to the United States navy.

He added that the ship is suspected of carrying military supplies for the Al-Shabaab militia in Somalia, a clear indication that Yemeni Al-Qaeda supports the militia in terms of weaponry.Ahmed said investigations into the issue are currently underway.He urged the Somali government to boost security along the country’s coastlines and seek supports from the neighbouring countries in making sure that no arms are illegally smuggled into the country through the coastal areas.The U.S has recently received critical information suggesting that Yemeni based Al-Qaeda network provides weapons and other military necessities to Somalia’s Al-Shabaab insurgents fighting the Somali government.

JPost: According to Dr. Hisham Al-Nabhani, a psychiatrist at Al Amal psychiatric hospital, about six cases like Samir’s cross his door every month seeking treatment for alcohol abuse.

“They usually come after drinking for three or four years,” Al-Nabhani told The Media Line. “Most of them have high economic status, are the sons of military officers or businessmen who have money and therefore access to alcohol.”

Al-Nabhani said most of them had lived in Saudi Arabia for extended periods.

“This is where they picked up the habit of using alcohol. I know it is even more forbidden there than in Yemen but people tend to hunt after forbidden things,” he added.

Yemeni law prohibits the consumption of alcohol in public or public drunkenness. If caught, violators are sent to prison and not to treatment centers like the Al Amal hospital. What happens in private homes, however, is another matter and police do not as a rule search houses for alcohol. Unlike in Saudi Arabia, there are no religious police enforcing the Islamic ban on alcohol.

“If people drink at home, this is between them and Allah, not between them and the Yemeni law,” Dr. Al-Nabhani says.

Ironically, alcohol is relatively easy to obtain in Yemen. There is locally brewed vodka, called Baladi, named after the Arabic word ‘bilad’ which means country. Vodka, whisky, beer and gin is also smuggled in from Ethiopia or Djibouti and then sold through dealers. There are even towns such as Haima and Amran where whole streets are lined with little shops selling booze behind their iron doors. At first glance the shops appear like the average Yemeni grocery with cans of beans, washing powder and cigarettes lining the walls. But they have a clandestine side room where crates of Heineken beer and bottles of whisky of assorted brands can be found.

The shops are known by many, including government officials. A recent Wikileaks report quoted President Ali Abdullah Saleh joking with US General David Petraeus that he loathed drugs and weapons coming from Djibouti, but whisky, on the other hand was fine, as long as it was good whiskey. Curiously, the report did not receive much media attention in Yemen despite fears in the foreign press that it could lead to a “Whiskey Controversy.” Yemen denied the quotes were made and the government-controlled newspapers and television channels ignored it.

Yemen Arrests Notorious Interpol-Hunted Drug Dealer
Yemen Post Staff Police in Amran Province have arrested a drug dealer wanted by Yemen and Saudi Arabia, who was being hunted by the Interpol, the News Yemen reported on Saturday. The website quoted the province security director, Abdullah Dabwan, as saying that the dealer had been arrested in Amran and would remain in custody as a prelude to handing him to the specialized authorities.

The dealer’s name was circulated by the criminal police four years ago on charges of smuggling drugs to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, it said. He was a notorious dealer and his arrest represented a blow to the trade and trafficking of drugs that have flourished in Yemen in the last years.

Yemeni-Syrian committee discusses marine navigation company
[21/October/2010] DAMASCUS, Oct. 21 (Saba) – The Yemeni-Syrian Follow-up Committee discussed on Thursday the possibility to sep up a joint marine navigation company and direct marine line between the two countries ports.

The committee was co-chaired by Yemen Minister of Transport Khalid al-Wazir and the Syrian Minister of Transport Yarub Suleiman.

Al-Wazir affirmed that holding these talks comes as an implementation of directives of the Yemeni-Syrian High Committee, noting that this company will represent a big leap in the national economy contributing to economic cooperation between the two countries.

For his part, the Syrian minister pointed out to concern of Yemen to upgrade the bilateral relations.

The meeting also dealt with the related issues of transport to boost the level of commercial exchange between the two countries.

U.S. embassy in Sanaa develop a section of the security aid to combat drug
[10/أكتوبر/2010] صنعاء ـ سبـأنت: [10 / October 2010] Sana Saba:
أعلن السفير الامريكي الجديد بصنعاء جيرالد فيرستين اليوم الاحد ان السفارة الامريكية استحدثت قسما لتقديم المساعدات لاجهزة الامن اليمنية في مجال مكافحة المخدرات . Announced the new U.S. ambassador in Sana’a Gerald Verstin Sunday that the U.S. embassy introduced a section to provide assistance to the Yemeni security services in the fight against drugs.

جاء ذلك خلال لقاء السفير فيرستين اليوم وزير الداخلية اللواء الركن مطهر رشاد المصري ، الذي بحث معه أوجه التعاون والتنسيق الامني بين اليمن والولايات المتحده الامريكيه وسبل تعزيزها وتطويرها. This came during a meeting with Ambassador Verstin today by the Minister of Interior Major General antiseptic Rashad al-Masri, who discussed aspects of cooperation and security coordination between Yemen and the United States and ways of enhancing them.

ونوه السفير فيرستين بالتطور الملحوظ الذي شهدته الاجهزة الامنية في مجال مكافحة الإرهاب والحد من الجريمة وأصبحت الجمهورية اليمنية من الشركاء الأساسين في مجال مكافحة الإرهاب على مستوى المنطقة والعالم. The ambassador Verstin remarkable development witnessed by the security forces in the fight against terrorism and crime reduction and the Republic of Yemen became the bases of the partners in the fight against terrorism in the region and the world.

وأبدى السفير الأمريكي استعداد حكومته تقديم المزيد من الدعم في الجانب ألتأهيلي والتدريبي والفني . The U.S. ambassador expressed his government’s readiness to provide further support in the rehabilitation and training and technical support.

Yermen Times: SANA’A, August 11 — About 395,000 Yemenis seeking jobs opportunities failed to infiltrate the Saudi border over the last two years, according to report published in Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper last week.

The report, that was written by Saudi journalist Turki Al-Saheel, stated that “at least one Yemeni infiltrator is arrested every ‘five minutes’ in the border region.” The report said that there are dozens of would-be Yemeni infiltrators camped out along the border waiting for chance to enter into Saudi Arabia.

The phenomenon of Yemeni infiltration into Saudi Arabia is attributed to bad security and poor economic conditions in Yemen. Most of those wishing to cross the border are looking to work in Jizan province. It is considered a popular destination for Yemenis for several reasons including its geographic location.

The report revealed that some of the Yemenis arrested by Saudi authorities are very young. The ages of those arrested vary from 15 to 50, but the Saudi authority doesn’t hold them unless they were involved in other crimes such as smuggling. An official registry takes the fingerprints and data of those arrested before releasing them back into Yemen.

Lieutenant Colonel Salem Al-Shehri, head of the Department of Planning of the Saudi Border Guards in Jizan, told the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper in the same report that if the infiltrator is caught for a second time, he will subject to a punishment as stipulated in the Border Security Regulations.

“Some infiltrators were using the floodwater drainage pipelines to cross into Saudi soil. This was something we were alerted to, and we acted accordingly,” said Al-Shehri.

The Saudi authorities has seized arms, explosives, ammunition, alcohol and drugs coming from Yemen into Saudi Arabia. The report stated that Saudi border guards have confiscated 3,600 bottles of whiskey, 6 million kilograms of qat, 4,086 kg of hashish and 387,000 narcotic pills. About 10,000 smugglers have been arrested since January 2008.

In addition to these smuggling and infiltration activities, the report revealed that there is a smuggling industry and trafficking of foodstuffs from Saudi Arabia into Yemen due to high prices in Yemen. Moreover, there have been foiled attempts to smuggle 80,000 head of cattle and 4,949 vehicles from Saudi Arabia to Yemen.

For more on Fares Manna and weapons smuggling, see our category “Proliferation”.

The interview from al Masdar:

أطلق تاجر السلاح اليمني فارس مناع نداء استغاثة باسم اهالي صعدة وطالب الدول الخليجية عامة والمملكة العربية السعودية وقطر خاصة بالتدخل وتقديم الدعم والمساهمة في إعادة إعمار المحافظة. Yemeni arms dealer called Knight Manna distress call on behalf of the people of Saada and called the Gulf States in general and Saudi Arabia and Qatar in particular to intervene and provide support and contribute to the reconstruction of the province. وفيما حمّل الدولة مسؤولية انتشار السلاح في الاسواق اكد ان السلاح الذي يحمله الحوثيون يعود اصلا الى الجيش اليمني. The state took responsibility for the proliferation of arms in the market confirmed that the weapons carried by Houthis back originally to the Yemeni army.
فارس مناع، اسم ذاع صيته بين أسطر الأخبار كإحدى أبرز الشخصيات المؤثرة في المجتمع اليمني. Fares Manna, the name of his reputation as one of the news between the lines the most influential figures in Yemeni society. لكن كل ما يعرف عن “الشيخ فارس” هو أنه تاجر سلاح ويعد أحد أبرز ثلاثة تجار سلاح في المنطقة، إلى جانب قيامه بأعمال تجارية أخرى. But all of what is known as “Sheikh Knight” is that an arms dealer and is considered one of the top three arms dealers in the area, along with his other business.
يقول مناع إنه ليس تاجر تجزئة وأنه يعقد الصفقات بين شركات الأسلحة والدول وبينها دول عربية وأفريقية كما يقول، ومهمته الدخول كوسيط بين هذه الدول والشركات في روسيا وعدد من دول أوروبا وأوروبا الشرقية وله مكاتب عدة في تلك الدول. Manna says it is not a retailer and it is being held transactions between arms companies and countries, including Arab and African countries, he says, and his entry as an intermediary between these countries and companies in Russia and a number of countries and Eastern Europe with offices in several of those countries.
ذاع صيت فارس من خلال هذه المهنة ويعمل منذ قرابة 20 عاما فيها وكان له مكتب في مركز التجارة العالمي الذي استهدف في أحداث ايلول- سبتمبر. Knight fame through this profession and working for nearly 20 years and has had the office in the World Trade Center attack in the events of September – September.
دخل كرسول –كما يحب أن يصف ذلك نفسه- من الرئيس اليمني إلى الحوثيين وذلك أثناء الحرب الخامسة في صعدة حيث يقول إنه ساهم في إنقاذ لواء كامل وقع في فخ للحوثيين وكاد يباد. Income as a messenger – as he likes to describe it himself – from the Yemeni President to Houthis during the war in Sa’ada fifth where he says he helped to save an entire brigade was entrapped Alhouthein almost annihilated.
وقد غادر اخيرا سجن الأمن القومي بعد أن ظل مسجونا قرابة شهرين بتهم تتعلق بحرب صعدة، وهو يعمل اليوم على إنشاء ما أطلق عليه بـ “مؤتمر السلام الوطني” المتعلق بصعدة على وجه الخصوص. Has recently left the National Security Prison after having been imprisoned for nearly two months on charges of war in Sa’ada, he is working today to create what he called the “National Peace Conference” on Saada in particular.
حول جميع هذه القضايا يتحدث فارس مناع لـ إيلاف من مكتبه المطل على حرم جامعة صنعاء في أول حديث له لوسيلة إعلام غير محلية. On all these issues speaks for ILLAFTrain Fares Manna from his office overlooking the campus of the University of Sanaa in his first speech as a means to inform the non-local.
في ما يلي نص الحوار. Following is the text of the dialogue.
** أولا.. ** I. .. هل نستطيع القول عن فارس مناع شخصية غامضة لا يعرف عنه الكثير سوى ما يتداوله الناس في الأخبار؟ Can we say about Cavalier Manna, a mysterious figure is not known by many only have dealt with what people in the news?
بالنسبة إلي لا أحب التحدث عن نفسي، ولم يصادف التحدث عن هذا الأمر، ولكن أقول إنني “فارس محمد حسن مناع” ولدت في إحماء الطلح في محافظة صعدة عام 1970، تلقيت الدراسة في القرية ثم انتقلت إلى مدينة صعدة لإكمال الثانوية وخلال دراستي كنت أساعد الوالد في إدارة شؤون القبيلة التي كان هو شيخها، وكذلك في عمل تجاري متقطع إضافة إلى الإشراف الزراعي وفي إنشاء بعض الجمعيات الزراعية في الثمانينات والتسعينات. For me I do not like to talk about myself, did not come across to talk about this, but I will say I am, “Faris Mohammad Hassan Manna” I was born in warm acacia in Saada province in 1970, I received a study in the village and then moved to the city of Saada to complete high school and during my studies I was helping the parent in the management of the tribe that it was Islamic Group, as well as a business intermittently as well as overseeing the establishment of some agricultural and agricultural societies in the eighties and nineties.
بعدها انتقلت إلى العاصمة صنعاء في العام 1991 وأكملت دراستي في جامعة صنعاء كلية التجارة والاقتصاد عام 1994، تلقيت دراسات في إدارة أعمال في لندن لعدة فترات وإجادة اللغة الإنكليزية وبعدها مارست أعمالا سياسية ودخلت في انتخابات نيابية عدة فترات وكنت مشرفا على الانتخابات من قبل الحزب الحاكم “المؤتمر الشعبي العام” وحصدت مقاعد محافظة صعدة كلها، واستطعت انتزاع دوائر كاد يسيطر عليها حزب الإصلاح “أكبر أحزاب المعارضة”. Then moved to the capital Sanaa in 1991 and completed my studies at the University of Sana’a Faculty of Commerce and Economics in 1994, I received studies in Business Administration in London for several periods of English Language and then exercised political acts and engaged in parliamentary elections several times and I was a supervisor of elections by the ruling party ” General People’s Congress “and won seats in the whole province of Saada, and I was able to extract almost circuits controlled by the Reform Party,” the largest opposition party. ”
وبتنسيق مع الأخ الرئيس حفظه الله.. And in coordination with the brother of President may God protect him .. لدينا أيضا الجانب التجاري، نحن لدينا تجارة لا بأس بها منها في الصرافة والتعامل مع البورصات العالمية، إضافة إلى التجارة في قطع الغيار والحديد، والدخول كوسيط تجاري لعمل صفقات الأسلحة كغيرنا من الشركات العالمية التي تسهل عمل صفقات بين الدول وشركات مصنعات للأسلحة. We also have the business side, we have a business without a good, including in foreign exchange and dealing with global stock markets, in addition to trade in spare parts, iron, and enter a commercial broker for the work of arms deals, like other companies that facilitate the work of transactions between countries and companies artifacts of weapons.
** هذه هي النقطة التي يريد الناس معرفة تفاصيلها، هل بالفعل إن فارس مناع إحدى أبرز ثلاث شخصيات في المنطقة تتاجر بالسلاح؟ ** This is the point that people want to know the details, you already said that one of the most Fares Manna three figures in the arms trade?
نعم.. Yes .. نحن نقوم بتسهيل الصفقات بين الدول والشركات المصنعة للأسلحة، من حيث تخفيض أسعارها ومن حيث تسهيل بعض الشروط التي قد تختلف الشركات مع الدول في توقيع العقود عليها، فعدة عقود شاركنا في تسهيلها والتوقيع عليها مابين الدول والشركات المصنعة، حيث توجد دائما خلافات حول الأسعار والشروط وغيرها، ونحن نقوم بالتقريب بينهم والوصول بهم إلى الاتفاقات، هذا دورنا فقط. We facilitate the transactions between countries and companies that manufacture weapons, in terms of reduced prices and in facilitating some of the conditions may be different companies and countries to sign the contracts it, the same number decades, participated in facilitated and signed between the State and manufacturers, where there are always disagreements over price, conditions and other , and we approximate them and their access to the agreements, this role only.
**هل نستطيع معرفة عدد الصفقات التي تمت ودخلتم فيها كوسطاء؟ ** Can we know the number of transactions carried out and where you enter as intermediaries?
عددها كبير جدا، منها بين اليمن وروسيا وبين اليمن وأوكرانيا، وبين اليمن ودول أوروبية شرقية وكذلك صفقات بين دول أفريقية كثيرة مع روسيا وأوكرانيا وبيلاروسيا وتشيكيا وغيرها، طبعا لا أستطيع أن أحصي عدد الصفقات خصوصا في الجناح الأفريقي وجناح اليمن، وكذلك دول أخرى. Number is very large, including between Yemen and Russia, and Yemen, Ukraine, Yemen and Eastern European countries as well as transactions between many African States, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Cze, and others, of course, I can not count the number of transactions, especially in the wing African wing of Yemen, as well as other countries.
** الجميع يعلم عن سوق السلاح سابقا في صعدة، هل تتاجر بالسلاح في الأسواق المحلية؟ ** Everyone knows about the arms market earlier in Saada, you trade in weapons in the local markets?
لا.. No .. لم أفعل هذا على الإطلاق، هذا الكلام يقوله الناس المغرضون، ويطرحون تلك الإشاعات، نحن نعمل ضمن دستور وقانون يمني وقانون دولي لا نستطيع العمل خارج إطاره ونحن ملزمون به، وما يقوله بعض الحاسدين والحاقدين والمغرضين ليس سوى تزييف للحقائق، وحاولوا ولكن فشلوا ولم يجدوا أي شيء مخالف قانونيا، ونحن واثقون من أنفسنا ونحن أحرص من الذين يرددون ويقولون إننا تجار أسلحة وتجار حروب، بل هم تجار الحروب، ونحن نعمل بشكل قانوني وفقا للنظام المعمول به. I did not do this at all, this speech people say Amoradwn, and ask those rumors, we are working within the Constitution and the law of Yemeni and international law can not to work outside the framework we are bound by, and say some envy and hate and biased not only the falsification of the facts, and tried but failed and did not find any something contrary to legal, and we are confident of ourselves and we are keener than shouting out and say we have arms dealers and traders wars, but they are merchants of war, and we are working in accordance with the legal system in force.
**حول الصفقات، هل عقدت صفقات سلاح لدول عربية غير اليمن؟ ** About the deals, you held arms deals to Arab countries is Yemen?
هذا شأن شخصي. This is a personal affair.
**هل أنت وكيل لشركات أسلحة، يقال إنك وكيل لـ “ميج”؟ ** Are you an agent for weapons, said to you a proxy for the “Meg”?
لست وكيلا ولكن مستشار لعدة شركات أجلب لها صفقات، وسأتابع هذه الأعمال بما يكفله لي القانون الدولي والمحلي، ولا يستطيع أحد أن ينتزع حقا من حقوقي. I’m not an agent, but an adviser to several companies bring them deals, and I will continue this work, including me guaranteed international and domestic law, and no one can really extract from my rights.
**هل لديك مكاتب رسمية في روسيا والدول التي تعقد معها صفقات السلاح؟ ** Do you have formal offices in Russia and the countries that held her arms deals?
نعم.. Yes .. لدينا مكاتب في كل الدول التي نعقد فيها صفقات..هذا ما يخص سيرتي ووصلنا إلى النهاية. We have offices in all the countries that hold the deals .. This is my respect and we reached the end.
**المعذرة لكن لم نصل إلى نهاية السيرة في ما يخص هذا الأمر والناس تريد معرفة المزيد كي تتضح الصورة أكثر، والحديث يدور حول بيع السلاح في الأسواق؟ ** Excuse me, but did not get to the end of the curriculum in relation to this matter and people want to know more to have a clearer picture more, and talk about arms sales on the market?
أنا قلت هذا الكلام وأوضح أريد أن أطمئن الناس وأقول: أتحدى أن يقدموا أي دليل حول هذا الأمر، وأنا مستعد لإثبات صدقنا وإثبات كذب من يدعي علينا. I said these words and said I want to reassure people and say: “I challenge to provide any evidence on this matter, and I’m ready to prove our sincerity and prove the lie to those claims to us.
**هل لأن إحدى أهم أسواق السلاح كانت في محافظة صعدة تلقي باللائمة على فارس مناع؟ ** Is it because one of the most important arms markets were in the province of Saada blames Knight Manna?
أصلا تجارة السلاح في اليمن كما تعلم شيء طبيعي، الدولة هي التي تتحمل المسؤولية جراء تجارة الأسلحة في الأسواق، هي التي فتحت المجال لتجارة السلاح في الأسواق، هي التي ملأت الأسواق بالأسلحة، ولذلك أنا أسأل “من المسؤول، فارس مناع، أم الدولة؟” Originally the arms trade in Yemen, as you know is natural, is the State that is responsible due to the arms trade in the markets, which opened the way for the arms trade in the markets, which flooded the market with weapons, so I ask “Who is responsible, Faris Manna, or the state?”
**قلت إن الدولة ملأت الأسواق بالأسلحة، هل تقصد أن السلاح يخرج من المعسكرات الحكومية ويباع في الأسواق؟ ** I said that the state flooded the market with weapons, do you mean that the weapon out of the camps, government and sold in the market?
طبعا نعم.. Yes, of course .. يباع من المعسكرات إلى الأسواق، وتسرب حسب أسلوب معين. Sold from the camps to the market, and the leakage by a particular method.
**لو سألنا.. ** If we ask .. من أين يأتي السلاح للحوثيين؟ Where it comes from arms to Alhouthein?
هذا شيء طبيعي، وقد توصلنا إليه وعرفناه.. This is normal, we have him and we knew .. أنا عرفت من خلال المعارك، كل ما يأتي للحوثي هو من مواقع الجيش، وقد أثبت ذلك من خلال الإطلاع على سلاح الحوثيين المسلحين به، فلوحظ أنه كله من قطع السلاح التي يتم الاستيلاء عليها من المواقع العسكرية، ومن خلال تجربتي في الحرب الخامسة كنا نحاول أن نوقع مواقع عسكرية في أيدي الحوثيين، ونهاجم ونخاطر بأنفسنا كي نتفادى وقوع غنائم من أسلحة الجيش للحوثيين.. I knew of the fighting, everything that comes to Houthi is one of the army positions, as evidenced by reading a weapon Houthis armed it, it was observed that all of the weapons that are seized from military sites, and through my experience in the war-fifth we were trying to sign of military positions in the hands of Houthis, attack and run the risk ourselves in order to avoid the occurrence of the spoils of weapons of the army Huthie .. وأريد القول إن هناك تواطؤا في بعض مواقع الجيش لتسليم السلاح للحوثيين، واتضح أن ذخائرهم من الجيش وبندقياتهم وسلاحهم كله من الجيش، وهناك صور ووثائق تثبت ذلك، وكل ما يثبت ذلك موجود، الأمر أصبح واضحا، وأصبح لا لبس فيه. I want to say that there is collusion in some army positions to deliver arms to Alhouthein and found that the ammunition from the army, rifle barrels and disarmed all of the army, and there are pictures and documents to prove it, all evidence that does exist, it became clear, and is not unequivocal.
** ألا يوجد لدى الحوثيين أصناف أخرى من السلاح غير التي لدى الجيش؟ ** Is not there to Houthis other kinds of weapons other than those in the military?
لا.. No .. كلها من الجيش وموثقة. All of the army and documented. ولو تنظر من أين تم شراؤه فستجد أنها كانت متواجدة في منطقة عسكرية معينة، وصرفت في تاريخ معين من المخازن المعينة، وهي الان مع الحوثيين..ذخائر الكلاشنكوف كلها من الجيش، الآر بي جي كلها من الجيش، السيارات العسكرية، وكان الحوثي وحدة مسلحة من الجيش اليمني، هذا شيء واضح وموثق. If you look from where they were purchased, you will find that it was present in the area of certain military and spent by a certain date from the stores in question, and is now with the Huthis .. ammunition, Kalashnikovs are all from the military, RPGs are all from the army, military vehicles, and Houthi armed unit of the Yemeni army, this is something clear and documented.
**كنت وسيطا بين الدولة والحوثيين؟ ** I was a mediator between the state and Houthis?
لم أكن وسيطا ولكن كنت رسولا من رئيس الجمهورية. I was not a mediator but I was a messenger from the President of the Republic.
**كما تشاء، كنت رسولا في الحرب الخامسة، ما الذي قمت به حينها؟ ** As they wish, I was a messenger in the war of the Fifth, what you have done then?
قمنا بدور كبير في إيقاف الحرب، كان الوضع العسكري للجيش صعبا فتفادينا سقوطه، وكان وضع أحد الألوية وهو لواء الشهاري صعبا جدا، فتدخلنا وأوقفنا سقوطه وفكينا الحصار عليه، وكان بين قاب قوسين أو أدنى من السقوط وقمنا بفتح الطرق وتثبيت وقف إطلاق النار، وإنهاء حالة التمترس.. We have a big role in stopping the war, the military situation of the army difficult Vtvadina fall, was the creation of a brigade, a brigade-Shehri very difficult, Vtdechlna and stopped his fall and Vkina siege on him, and was one just around the corner from the fall and we were opening the roads and install the cease-fire, ending the state of Isolation .. حققنا السلام بشكل كامل ولكن تجار الحروب تضايقوا من إرساء السلام ورفضوا أي سلام يتحقق عن طريقنا، لا نعلم السبب لماذا، يخونون وطنهم ونحن نريد فعل الخير وهم يريدون التخريب. We have complete peace, but the merchants of war Tzaiqgua of peace and rejected any peace achieved our way, we do not know the reason why, betray their homeland and we want to do good and they want to sabotage.
**يتضح من كلامك أنك كنت على علاقة وثيقة بالرئيس ليبعثك كرسول إلى الحوثيين.. ** Clear from what you say you were a close relationship with the President will raise a messenger to Houthis .. ما الذي حدث وتغير لكي يتم القبض عليك وإدخالك السجن؟ What happened and changed in order to arrest you and you enter a prison?
الذي حصل أن ضغوطات من أقطاب السلطة “التحتية”، ضغطت على الرئيس وشوهت ونقلت، أقاويل كاذبة إلى حد أنني كنت لا أصدق أنهم سيؤثرون بالآخ الرئيس، لكن طيبتنا وسجيتنا التي تربينا عليها وفطرتنا القبلية وصدقنا وثقتنا طرحتنا بأننا لا نعبأ بكل الأكاذيب التي تطرح لأننا واثقون من أنفسنا، فقد يكون هناك ضغوط تحتية على الآخ الرئيس. Who got to pressure from the poles of power “infrastructure”, I pressed the president and distorted quotes, gossip false to the extent that I can not believe they will affect brother the president, but Taibtna and Sgittena which brought up by the Aftratna tribal and sincerity and confidence Tranna that we do not care about all the lies put to, we are confident from ourselves, there may be pressure on the infrastructure brother of the President.
**ممن هذه الضغوط التي مورست على الرئيس؟ ** Who these pressures brought to bear on the president?
بصراحة، من قبل جهاز الأمن القومي.. Frankly, by the National Security Agency .. ذلك الجهاز الفاسد، وأرى أنه لا إصلاح للدولة إلا بعد إلغائه، هذا رأيي، وسيظل رأيي عنه وأتمنى من الآخ الرئيس أن يسمع نداءنا بأن يحاسب الأمن القومي وأن يوقف عمله لمصلحة البلد، ومصلحته هو، بماذا سيذهب إلى الانتخابات القادمة، لا يوجد حل أمامه إلا أن يحل الأمن القومي، هذا إذا أراد المؤتمر الشعبي “الحزب الحاكم” أن يفعل شيئا في الساحة وإلا فإنه سيضيع في الانتخابات، لأن الأمن القومي سحب قاعدة المؤتمر الشعبي ودمره في الساحة. This device is corrupt, and I think that it does not reform the state only after the cancellation, this is my opinion, and will remain my opinion him and I wish the brother of President to hear our call that account for national security and stop work for the benefit of the country, and his interest is, what will go to the next election, there is no solution it only to solve the national security, if the Congress wanted to “ruling party” to do something in the arena, otherwise it will be lost in elections, as national security to withdraw a People’s Congress and destroyed in the arena.
**شقيقك حسن مناع، أقيل في المرحلة ذاتها من قيادته لمحافظة صعدة.. ** Your brother Hassan Manna, who was sacked at the same stage of his leadership of the province of Saada .. هل السبب كان اعتراضه على سجنك؟ Is the reason was objection to the incarcerated?
حسن مناع لم تتم إقالته، بل هو استقال حين علم باحتجازي ورفض أن يستمر في العمل. Hassan Manna is not dismissal, but he resigned when he learned Baanijazi and refused to continue to work. فكيف يستمر في العمل وقد تم إيقاف شقيقه ظلما وعدوانا، ورفض أن يستمر في العمل ولكن احتراما للأخ رئيس الجمهورية حفظه الله، وتقديرا لما بيننا وبينه من علاقات لم ننشر استقالتنا حبا ووفاءً من شقيقي للأخ الرئيس لأنه يكن له الحب والاحترام. How can continue to work have stopped his brother, injustice and aggression, refusal to continue to work, but out of respect to Brother President of the Republic may God protect him, and an estimate for us and with relationships did not publish the resignations of love and loyalty from my brother to brother the president because it was his love and respect.
** تعدّون حاليّا لما بات يعرف بـ “مؤتمر السلام الوطني” الخاص بالسلام في صعدة.. ** Have you planned for what is currently known as the “National Peace Conference” on peace in Saada .. ماذا سيفعل هذا المؤتمر في ظل الإشكالية الكبيرة في صعدة؟ What will this conference under the big problem in Saada?
المؤتمر أنشئ من حاجة ضرورية فرضها الواقع الحالي في صعدة، أنشئ من خلال توافق أبناء محافظة صعدة خلال زيارتنا الميدانية لها، حيث توافدوا من كل المديريات وطالبوا بوجود تجمع قبلي واجتماعي لتولي حل مشكلة الحرب في صعدة. Congress established the essential need imposed by the current situation in Sa’ada, established through the convergence of people of the province of Saada during our visit to the field, where flocked from all departments and demanded the existence of tribal group, social problem solving to take over the war in Sa’ada. طالبوني بذلك نظرا إلى عدم تواجد الدولة بشكل كبير. Readers asked me to do so due to the unavailability of the State dramatically.
**هل يضم المؤتمر أطرافا في الدولة والحوثيين؟ ** Is a gathering of parties in the State and Houthis?
المؤتمر حيادي، يضم أبناء محافظة صعدة وبقية المحافظات التي تضررت من الحرب، هو تكتل حيادي يرى مصلحة المحافظة.. Conference neutral, comprising people of Saada province and the rest of the provinces affected by the war, is the farm interest of maintaining a neutral opinion .. وسيطرح نقاطه بكل صراحة وسيناضل من أجلها، وسيضم في وسطه علماء ورجال أعمال ومزارعين ومشائخ وعمالا وجمعيات، وأعضاء مجالس محلية، وكل الأطياف، الرأي سيمثل هؤلاء. The points will be put frankly and strive for it, and will feature in the middle of scientists, businessmen, farmers and sheikhs, workers associations, and members of local councils, and all spectra, the view would be these.
**ما الذي سيفرض على الحوثيين تحديدا؟ ** What is going to impose on rebels in particular?
بالتأثير الشعبي والقاعدة الشعبية، سيصبح الحوثيون منبوذين إذا لم يلتزموا. Influencing public and the grassroots, will be Houthis outcasts if they fail. وكذلك الدولة، ستخرج وستكون محاصرة، وأريد القول إنه لايوجد دولة من دون شعب. As well as the state, will emerge and will be under siege, and I want to say that he does not have a state without people.
** هل تعتبر اليوم صعدة في يد الحوثيين عمليا؟ ** Do you think today in the hands of Saada Houthis practice?
صعدة في يد أبنائها، والحوثيون يقومون بدور الدولة في بعض المناطق وذلك نظرا لغياب الدولة، ولكن بشكل عام يحكمها الواقع والعرف القبلي المعتاد. Saada in the hands of their children, and they Houthis role of the State in some areas owing to the absence of the state, but generally governed by the reality and the traditional tribal usual.
**ماذا عن السعودية وقطر في هذا الشأن؟ ** What about Saudi Arabia and Qatar in this regard?
أنا أدعو المملكة العربية السعودية وقطر الى دعم التنمية في صعدة والوقوف إلى جانب مؤتمر السلام. I call on Saudi Arabia and Qatar to support development in Saada and to stand by the peace conference. وادعو السعودية الى الوقوف إلى جانب هذا المؤتمر لكي يتحقق أمنها، كما ادعو القطريين إلى التنسيق مع المؤتمر لأنه يمثل أبناء صعدة وهو الذي سيقدم عوامل النجاح، لا نريد منهم أي شيء سوى تحقيق مصلحة عامة للجميع. I call on Saudi Arabia to stand by this conference in order to achieve its security, as I call country to coordinate with the conference because it represents the people of Saada is to be submitted success factors, we do not want anything from them, except to the public interest for all.
**لكن هناك إشكالات كبيرة منها النازحون وإعادة الإعمار وغيرها.. ** But there are problematic in large displaced people, reconstruction and other .. ألا ترى أنها ستقف عائقا أمام هذا المؤتمر؟ Do not you see that they would stand an obstacle to this conference?
هذا المؤتمر أنشئ لحل هذه الأزمات، وسنعمل على حلها وعلى الدولة أن تقوم بواجبها، كما أناشد السعودية ودول الخليج بأن يساهموا في إعادة إعمار صعدة، أناشد الجميع بحق العروبة والإسلام بالمساهمة في هذه المهمة.. This conference was established to resolve these crises, and we will work to resolve them and the State must do its homework, I also appeal to Saudi Arabia and Gulf states to contribute to the reconstruction of Saada, I appeal to everyone the right of Arabism and Islam to contribute to this task .. نحن جميعا تضررنا في هذه الحرب، أنا شخصيا تضررت وقصفت بيوتي وممتلكاتي. We are all affected, in this war, I personally damaged and bombed Beauty and my property.
**بالمناسبة.. ** By the way .. كم بلغت الخسائر في قصف المنازل في صعدة؟ How many losses in the bombing of homes in Saada?
أكثر من مائة مليون دولار، في المنازل.. More than one hundred million dollars, in the home .. غير الممتلكات. Non-property.
**هل كان يوجد في تلك المنازل سلاح؟ ** Is there was a weapon in those houses?
نعم كان يوجد سلاح للدولة. Yes, there was a weapon of the state. وحسب توجيهات الدولة قمنا بشرائه وتوريده بحيث نحفظه كي لايصل إلى الحوثيين ولكن في الأخير هناك فشل ذريع من خلال معلومات الأمن القومي التي تقدم للدولة. As directed by the State and supply we bought so that we hold in trust for who did not get to Houthis, but in the latter there is failure by national security information provided to the State.

SANAA, 12 Jul — The United Nations is planning to open an office in Yemen to fight terrorism, crime, human trafficking and drugs, the government official daily, al-Thawra said on Monday. Interior Minister Brig Gen Rashad al-Masri welcomed the move during a meeting with a UN delegation headed by the coordinator of the UN programs in the middle east and north Africa, Life Vilatson saying “the opening of the office will have positive results for Yemen and neighboring countries,” and voiced his ministry’s “willingness to provide all necessary facilitations to establish the office and facilitate its mission.” The UN delegation hailed “the successes made by Yemen in combating terrorism and drugs,” and expressed gratitude for “Yemen’s complete cooperation and facilitations for the success of UN programmes in the field of battling crime and drugs.”

Arab News: JEDDAH: Immigration authorities in Jazan said on Wednesday that 2,454 Yemeni infiltrators, illegal residents and beggars were caught in the past one month.

“Infiltration of Yemenis into Saudi Arabia from the southern border is still continuing despite the heavy presence of border guards,” said a written statement from the local Passport Department, pointing out that border officials have increased their vigilance since the conflict with Yemeni rebels earlier this year.

“Border guards have cut new passages in (mountainous) areas that were not accessible in the past in order to be able to patrol the area and prevent infiltration and smuggling,” said the statement.

Saudi Arabia’s long and porous border with Yemen is one of highest concern for the authorities. Last year, officials responded to more than 130,000 smuggling attempts, including weapons and humans, compared with about 140,000 such incidents in the rest of the Kingdom.

Reuters Ambush on security convoy in Yemen capital kills one

SANAA, May 11 (Reuters) – Yemeni gunmen trying to free an accused arms dealer with links to Shi’ite rebels fired on a convoy ferrying him from jail to court in Sanaa on Tuesday, killing a bystander, security officials and witnesses said.

Witnesses said gunmen atop a multi-storey building opened fire on the four-car convoy carrying the detained man, Faris Mana. An intelligence officer and another passerby were wounded in the failed breakout attempt.

“The authorities sent heavy security reinforcements to the scene, and helicopters hovered in the air to monitor the situation until security forces were able to regain control,” a witness said, declining to be named.

Yemen is a focus of Western security concerns due to a string of attacks attributed to a Yemen-based arm of al Qaeda, including an attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound plane and a suicide attack targeting the British ambassador to Sanaa.

Western countries and Saudi Arabia want Yemen, which is also grappling with Shi’ite rebellion in the north and separatism in the south, to quell its domestic conflicts to focus on fighting al Qaeda, which they believe represents a greater global threat.

Sanaa sealed a ceasefire deal in February with the northern rebels, who complain of discrimination by the state. The deal ended the latest round of fighting in a conflict that has raged on and off since 2004 and displaced 250,000 people.

The two sides have accused each other of breaching the terms of the truce, which analysts say is unlikely to last without serious trust-building measures. Mana, the accused arms dealer, was detained earlier this year in Sanaa and previously served as a mediator between the government and rebels before violence surged last year.

Mana is being held on accusations of supplying the rebels with automatic weapons and ammunition. He was being brought to court so that prosecutors could extend his detention by another 25 days, security officials said. (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

AFP: The government had put Manaa’s name at the top of a blacklist of arms dealers published on the front page of an official newspaper last October.

Manaa, who is a brother of the governor of Saada province in the north, formerly headed a committee mediating in last year’s war between the government and Saada-based Zaidi Shiite rebels, also known as Huthis.

Local sources said upon Manaa’s arrest that the rebels had stolen weapons from arms depots which he owned. He had not reported the theft until two days later, allowing the rebels to make off with around 20 truckloads of arms.

The sources said the incident angered Sanaa, which had been pressing an all-out assault on the Huthis since August.