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Omani Sultan assures on situations in Sa'ada

Mohammed Yahya on 08/19/2009 at 2:49pm (UTC)

(MYM CHANNEL) President Ali Abdullah Saleh received here on Wednesday a letter from Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin Said ,assuring on the situations in the northern province of Sa'ada in light of the recent military operations against the rebels there.

The letter handed over by the Omani Sultan's convey, Deputy Head of the Communication and Coordination Office Hilal bin Hamoud Al Ma'amari, included asking after the President's health and wishes good health for him.

Furthermore, the letter dealt with the brotherly relations and the joint cooperation between the two brotherly countries as well as the developments that concern the two countries and the Arab nation.

The letter affirmed Oman's support to Yemen in whatever preserves its unity, sucrity and stability.

Saleh praised the level of the current distinct relations between the two brotherly counties and the supportive positions of Sultanate of Oman to Yemen.

In 2004, the Houthis launched an armed rebellion in the northern province of Sa'ada, continuing to fight the troops, kill innocents and attack their properties and commit banditry as well as derailing development projects and peace efforts.

Lately the army moved severely against the rebels, in an offensive prompted by rebel continuous lawbreaking and sabotaging.

Warrants for rebel leaders issued

Mohammed Yahya on 08/19/2009 at 2:47pm (UTC)

(MYM CHANNEL) - Prosecution has issued arrest warrants for 55 rebel leaders in the northern province of Saada and other provinces on Tuesday.

The warrants came after the Interior Ministry asked the Attorney General to give orders for issuing them.

Launching an armed rebellion in 2004, the Houthis continue to fight the troops, kill innocents and attack their properties and commit banditry as well as derailing development projects and peace efforts.

Among those sought to be arrested is Badr al-Din Amir al-Din al-Houthi, the spiritual leader of the Houthi rebels.

Lately the army moved severely against the rebels, in an offensive prompted by rebel continuous lawbreaking and sabotaging.

Yemen: Black box from plane found

Mohammed Yahya on 08/19/2009 at 2:45pm (UTC)

One of the black boxes from a Yemeni plane has been located, a Yemeni official said Wednesday, a day after the Yemenia Air's plane crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Republic of Comoros.
Recovering the box will take place soon, the official said.
Early on Tuesday, an Airbus 310-300 came down in bad weather with 153 passengers and a crew onboard. Only a 14-year-old French girl survived. She is now being hospitalized in a Moroni hospital. 66 of the passengers were Fench citizens.
Rescue teams from Yemen, France and African states near the crash site on Wednesday were continuing search for bodies and debris.

Yemen hints Iran behind Shiite rebellion

Mohammed Yahya on 08/19/2009 at 2:42pm (UTC)

Yemen on Tuesday hinted that the Shi'ite rebels are receiving financial support from Iran. The government spokesman, Minister of Information Husain al-Lawzi added that Yemen is working to bring an end to the rebellion in the northern Saada governorate.
According to SABA news agency, the Yemeni official said that "armed and security forces and local authorities in Saada are working to fulfill all constitutional and legal requirements included in the six points presented to Houthis recently by the Supreme Security Commission." The minister pointed out that the government is running out of patience regarding the rebels.

He stressed a foreign financial, political and media aid offered for the Shiite elements in Saada. "There are religious authorities that are trying to interfere in the affairs of our country. These authorities are giving financial and political support to acts of terrorism and destruction which are aimed at the heart of the security and stability of Yemen and especially Saada", Lawzi said.
Yemen said earlier that it wanted to arrest 55 rebel leaders.
Meanwhile, Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh paid on Tuesday an inspection visit to military units. In his speech, Saleh stated that "our military forces are able to confront and defeat al-Houthi rebels who broke the law and announced their rebellion against the country."
He noted that if "this war carried out by rebellion elements could be ended in its first moments if it was based on a regular war."

Yemeni president vows to crush Shiite rebellion

Mohammed Yahya on 08/17/2009 at 11:07pm (UTC)

SANAA — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh pledged on Wednesday to crush a Shiite rebellion in the north as the army pressed an offensive launced in Saada province nine days ago

"The armed forces ... are continuing their heroic acts. We are determined to destroy this group and we mean what we say," he said at a military academy celebration.

"We will uproot this cancer that exists in Saada province."

Saleh spoke as the army pressed on with its all-out offensive, dubbed Operation Scorched Earth, against Zaidi Shiite rebels, also known as Huthis, in the rugged mountainous region, local officials said.

Fighting began in Saada province itself, on the border with Saudi Arabia, and has since spread to Amran province to the south, where officials said fierce clashes were again taking place on Wednesday in the Harf Sufyan area.

There was also heavy combat in Al-Mahazer, in Saada south of the provincial capital, and Al-Malahiz to the northwest.

"They have pushed us to use force. We will buy all the weapons needed to hit them wherever they are," Saleh said, accusing the rebels of being a "deviant group".

On Tuesday, Saleh inspected military garrisons close to the front, according to Saba state news agency.

The interior ministry also named 55 rebel leaders as wanted on charges of "armed rebellion, abduction and execution of civilians, destruction of property and attacks on government forces."

The death toll is not clear, but the rebels have accused government forces, which deployed warplanes in the offensive, of killing dozens of civilians.

Yemen has implicitly accused Iran of backing the rebels and denouncing Iranian media coverage of the war.

"The manner in which (Iranian) media, such as Al-Alam and Al-Kawthar televisions and Tehran Radio report the events reveal the party which is backing the acts of sabotage," Information Minister Hasan Ahmed al-Lawzi said on Tuesday.

Last week, the government set conditions for ending the offensive, including rebel evacuation of government offices they have occupied, handing over ammunition and equipment and freeing prisoners.

The rebels dismissed these conditions and accused the government of failing to respect a Qatari-brokered June 2007 ceasefire intended to end a conflict that has left thousands dead.

The government also accuses the rebels of kidnapping nine foreigners in June, three of whom were found dead.

Five Germans and a Briton remain missing, but the rebels have denied any involvement, accusing the government of using the disappearance of the Westerners as an excuse to attack them.

The government has been engaged in an intermittent war with the rebels, who reject the current government and want to restore the Zaidi imamate overthrown in a 1962 coup. Thousands of people have been killed since the conflict first erupted in 2004.

An offshoot of Shiite Islam, the Zaidis are a minority in mainly Sunni Yemen but form the majority community in the north. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is himself a Zaidi.

In May, the International Crisis Group said the truce in Saada was "fragile and could prove short-lived," warning that the conflict "carries grave risks for Yemen's political, sectarian and social equilibrium."

Interior minister meets UK ambassador

Mohammed Yahya on 08/17/2009 at 11:05pm (UTC)

SANAA, Aug. 17 (MYM channel) - Minister of Interior Mutahar al-Masri met here on Monday with the UK ambassador to Sana'a Tim Torlot and Good Governance official in British embassy Ms. Clair Falings.

The meeting aims to bidding farewell to the Ms. Clair Falings, who has supervised on the project of supporting police and judiciary in Yemen, in the occasion of ending her missions.

Al-Masri praised the growing and lasting bilateral relations with Britain in all fields including security.

Torlot and Falings also hailed the level of mutual relations between the two countries, appreciating facilities provided by the government to ease the implementation of their missions.

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