UAE completes its occupation of Socotra in favor of US (VIDEO)
SOCOTRA, April 19 (YPA) – The UAE continues to extend its influence in Yemen’s Socotra archipelago towards tightening its occupation, by dismantling the so-called “Hadi and Islah party “Muslim Brotherhood forces” and strengthening its forces and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) militias that Abu Dhabi has funded and financed to become an arm of its influence in southern Yemen, under American cover in the exchange of interests.
In a new development, military defections in the ranks of the so-called ” 1st Marine Infantry Brigade” forces dominated by the Al-Islah (Brotherhood) group, announced by the a new battalion of defection.
The new military rebellion, and its so-called “battalion of units of the presidency of1st Marine Infantry Brigade “, appeared in a video footage circulated on Saturday, includes a rebellion statements against “Hadi” and “Muslim Brotherhood” and joining the Southern Transitional Council militia.
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The new military rebellion, coincides with the announcement made by Hadi Forces that they takeover of Socotra International Airport, the Special Forces camp and other areas of the island, which were under STC control.
The new rebellion is the fourth in a row in the so-called “1st Brigade, A Shahah Bahri”, after the first mutiny within the brigade was carried out by the 3rd Battalion and the Coast Guard battalion in February, and then three other battalions, last Tuesday.
On Tuesday, the Brigades announced their allegiance to the Southern Transitional Council and joined its militias.
According to observers, “the UAE is clearly moving towards tightening control of Socotra and the absolute unilaterality of its influence, even if it is necessary to blow up the situation militarily between Hadi’s forces, the Brotherhood and the southern transitional forces.”
But the most important question is: for whom does the UAE work, and who is behind the protection of its public tendencies to occupy the Island of Socotra? The answer is provided by the positions of the UAE’s cover for the incursion into Yemen, represented by the Southern Transitional Council, and in the American position.
For his part, the STC voiced its support for the military rebellions in Socotra.
Member of the presidency of the Council Salem Thabet al-Awlaki welcomed the defection of 1st Marine Infantry Brigade forces on the island of Socotra” that he described as a national position.
“This position comes less than a month after the vice president of the so-called Southern Transitional Council, Hani Ben Brik, announced the arrival of US aircraft carriers and warships in the Waters of the Arabian Sea to combat terrorism.”
The province of the Socotra Archipelago is the gateway to three of the world’s most important seas, and its strategic location dominates international commercial as well as military traffic in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, reinforcing international ambitions by occupying it.
According to regional and international political analysts, the UAE considers “mere cover or regional agent of the United States of America”, in the latter’s announced attempt to complete the deployment of its military bases by establishing bases in the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Indian Ocean.
The arrival of US military pieces in the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the coast of Yemen in Lahj, Mahrah, and Hadramaut provinces, coinciding with the announcement made by the US National Security Council thanking him for what he called “the role of the UAE in the fight against terrorism in Yemen.”
“The Supreme Security Council of the United States has justified the UAE’s incursion into Yemen, claiming that UAE forces have achieved great success in the fight against terrorism.”
But it justified the US incursion by confirming what he called the “US-UAE partnership in the fight against terrorism in Yemen.”
This reinforces the State Department’s announcement in early April of the deployment of additional US troops in the Arabian Sea under the pretext of “fighting terrorism” and announcing a “financial reward for tracking Iran’s arms smuggling network into Yemen,” as it claims.
E.M