from al-Motamar:
almotamar.net Elaf - SANAA- Elaf website disclosed Wednesday that Saudi Arabian authorities circulated to its security bodies a list carrying names of Yemeni personalities accusing them of terrorist acts and hostile activities against it in favor of an Arab country they said the personalities visited it several times.
Saudi authorities clarified those measures came at backdrop of information they got that those political and economic and sheikhs personalities travelled to Libya several times and held meetings with Libyan intelligence with the aim of planning for terrorists acts and activities hostile to the kingdom….It has pointed out that the list contains names of Yemeni personalities, some of whom weapon traders and sons of well-known sheikhs.
Exiled MP Yahya al-Houthi objects to Saudi Arabia treating Yemen as a vassel state:
Well-informed sources in Sana’a said lately that that the Saudi authorities have circulated a secret list containing names of Yemeni personalities mostly thought to have relations with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and involved in terrorist operations and hostile activities. The sources, refusing to be identified, added that the Saudi authorities circulated the list among its security apparatuses especially in its southern governorates bordering Yemen, in addition to neighboring countries including Yemen, indicating the Yemeni authorities received a copy of the list.
The circulation of instructions stipulates to arrest any person trying to enter Saudi territories and Saudi Arabia can coordinate with the neighboring countries to have access to the wanted persons. The source said the instructions came in the wake of information Saudi Arabia obtained that there are persons who had traveled to Libya more than once and held meetings with Libyan intelligence authorities aimed at planning for terrorist acts and hostile activities hostile to the kingdom.
The source pointed out that among those names are senior Yemeni personalities, commercial and political, as well as sheikhs. I say this piece of news has no hidden implications and meanings of the Saudi haughtiness and arrogance towards the Yemenis it is also clearly proves Saudi interference with Yemen’s affairs. (read the rest)
Thats an interesting article from Yahya but not nearly as interesting as the interview he gave to the Yemen Times last year where he says the regime asked the Houthis to go fight in Iraq, and that the regime is supporting, facilitating and arming terrorists.
Yemen Times
“We came to know from historical events that violence begets violence,” said Al-Houthi
Unfortunately, the Yemeni authorities have been entangled in the Houthi crisis since the middle of last year. Everyone is looking after his own benefits, regardless of the peoples’ blood that is being shed.
Although they know very well that the planes, tanks, missiles and all destructive weapons which are being used, will not exterminate extremism, but furthermore, escalate it. Moreover, it could probably create an underground movement out of it. They also know that law and not violence is capable to re-establish social order again.
We wish that the authority will be credible enough to find a fair solution that takes the Houthi crisis from the confrontation to the law field and replace the bloodshed, death and destruction of property and public facilities to peace and justice. In an effort to resolve the problem, we contacted Yahia Badriddeen Al-Houthi brother of late Hussien Al-Houthi, founder of the (Believing Youth) who was killed by government forces last September. Yahia is an MP of the ruling party. Now he is living in Germany. He agreed to hold an exclusive interview with the Yemen Times. Now to the details:
Q1: What is your opinion of the conflicts that are going on in Saada between the authorities and the Believing Youth (Al-Shabab Al-Mum’en)?
A: The authorities’ practice in Saada and other governorates are a violation to Sharia, constitution, international laws, charters, and conventions. It is against Humanitarian ethics. Many reliable sources and lawyers described it as genocide and a crime against humanity. Here is a study from an international lawyer:
Yemeni authorities had violated the basic rights of the Houthi groups. It is considered by the international community to be serious violations. The crimes are categorized as follows: genocide and crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and terror crimes.
According to these criteria, the actions committed against the Houthies are considered to be a genocide, this is according to articles that are contained in convention of 1948, of the genocide combat and their punishments, especially articles (b) and (c), which describe genocide as all actions that are meant for destroying totally or partially an ethnic or religious group.
The eviction, exile or displacement are considered genocide if they aim at total or partial destruction, for a human group. The Cairo declaration of April 1992 confirms that eviction and displacement are genocide crimes. In short, all that happened in Saada, according to international agreements and conventions, in addition to specialized court martial is a crime against humanity, committed against the Houthis.
Q2: Why, in your opinion, did the government choose this time in particular to resume escalation of the crisis in Saada?
A: I have no clear idea of the motivation of the timing of the authorities for the offensive against Al-Khafji on 28 November 2005. The preparations for this offensive took place two weeks before it started. However, what I noticed is that it is synchronized with the Saddam’s trial, which the media began broadcasting. I thought perhaps by starting this war, they want to achieve two things:
First, to turn away the attention from a trial of a tyrant whom they have stood to his side for a long time. This happened during his war with Iran and when he invaded Kuwait. In 1990, the authorities mobilized the people to go to the streets in most Yemeni cities, demanding Saddam to attack the neighboring countries with chemical weapons. This was followed by the firing of the Saudis to the Yemeni workers who were misguided by their authorities to demonstrate in favor of Saddam inside Saudi Arabia. This happened while he was attacking Riyadh with missiles.
Secondly: This timing could be a cipher for the Yemenis in Iraq, with their fighting mates, to escalate their insurgency during the trial, so as to terrorize the judges, the witnesses and the investigators. This is aimed at preventing a death penalty and to deprive the Iraqi people of the enjoyment of this historical event. And by the way, many Arab countries are exerting efforts to undermine the process of change in Iraq so that it would not extend into their own countries. They do this even if it is on the expense of the stability and peace of the Iraqi people, if this could contribute to the continuity of their regimes. I noticed this at the Al-Quds conference in Sana’a, in which Some Iraqis praised the Yemenis fighting in Iraq. More over, they thanked them, to prompt them to volunteer and lead the same violent track in which their colleagues have killed hundreds of Iraqis in the streets, mosques and markets.
Q 3: In your view, what is behind the search for presumed terrorists?
A: If the authorities claim that they are looking for terrorists in Saada then this is untrue. It is an indication of the unrest of the government because of the terrorism issue. The terrorists are in Sana’a and not in Saada. They should first extradite those who are wanted by international courts and then look for other terrorists. If the authorities are honest, why did they attack our people in the market places and villages? Why don’t they give them photos, of those terrorists, and ask them for help? Surely, they would cooperate, to avoid the catastrophe that is incurred on them by those terrorists.
However, things are not as the government claims. It is only an escapist attempt to escape from its terror liabilities, to avoid handing over regional leaders. This explains why the war against us, in Saada, is escalated by the time the president returned from America. He faced the demands for handing terrorists. He tries to create confrontations with others to convince the American administration, but the Americans know what is happening. They also know such games, which are like tat of the fox that ate the sheep and threw the bones beside the sleeping wolf to hold him accountable for stealing the sheep. I also do not think that they are ignorant of the fact that the Yemeni fighters in Iraq have a connection with the Yemeni authorities. They know that they have facilitated their travel to Iraq. The committee for dialogue that is headed by Hitar is one of his escapist devices. They were convinced by this committee to go to Iraq.
I rightfully say that the authorities asked our followers to go to Iraq before and during the war. The pressure on them is due to their refusal to go there. I am ready to prove that in an appropriate time. If the authorities and the terrorists have any matters to settle with Americans in Iraq, our followers have nothing to do with that. The ones who have taken the American dollars should bear their responsibilities. As for the Afghani Arabs, they are under protection of the authorities. They are in the army, and they fought in Maran and some were killed there.
I believe that the Americans will not forgive its humiliation and the strikes against its people. They do not believe our authorities, but now they are playing with them the game of hide and seek. They will also not forgive those who send fighters to Iraq. Although most of the death toll is among Iraqi people, the Americans will not tolerate being defeated. The repentance attempts of visiting America will be fruitless because America knows that it is a preservative measure and it is not true as long as they did not hand over those who are wanted. They are also accused of increasing the number of terrorists in Yemen and in the African Horn region. The cases of weapons distributed to the Somalis and those, which were used in attacking the American Consulate in Jeddah, are good examples. Added to that, is the case of the Yemeni weapons in Sudan. They distributed weapons to ailing and starving people. I suggest that the authority should have saved our people from the expected destruction, by handing those who are wanted, and break relations with terrorist’s organizations. They should stop aids to them and close their overt and secret schools in order to save Yemen and its people. I also request the Allied Countries to find a quick resolve to the Yemeni terrorist’s case. They either pardon them or receive them. Leaving them as an undecided matter destabilizes the country and the people, because they often look for unreal excuses, cases and exits. Yemen became like a school of troublemaking students. This has its negative effects on the life of the Yemeni people.
Q 4 : Why are some lobby centers trying to undermine the presidents amnesty that he announced last September, what benefits will they gain?
A: Some of these lobbies are involved in terror. Others represent the environment that spawns terror. Those are the warlords, who benefit from war and the end of war means an end to their trade. It would have been a privilege if the President kept his word, on the resolution he announced on 25 September 2005. He would have saved his prestige among the international leaders. It was aired in all languages by all news agencies. It will be for the good of the Yemeni people, and all the wars that they fought were only sources for damage, poverty and diseases.
Q5: What in your opinion is the way out of your crisis with the Authorities?
A: If the President was keen to resolve the Saada crisis, it would have been an easy matter, but as I said before, we will say what is true if our point of view is being asked.
Q6: What is to become of the ideological call, which was founded by late Sheikh Hussein Bedridden Al-Houthi? Will it continue or is it going to diminish, as it is the case with some political ideologies?
A: My brother’s ideology is bound by its substantiality and its ability to convince people. This will be left to time.
Q7: How is your father cleric Bedridden Al-Houthi’s health? Is he in a safe place?
A: He is in a good health, and he is not in need of hospitals. Many of his followers are around him and ready to protect him, while he is moving from one country to another.
Q8: What questions were you expecting and was not asked?
A: My question is that why did not the partisan and independent media tackle our case and bring it to the public so that they could know our oppression. Why do not they criticize the authority, like the brave Al-Khaiwany?
Q9: Any last comment?
A: It is contained in my previous answers, with compliments
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