Report: Terrorism in Southern Yemen is a Saudi-Emirati imprint
SANAA, Feb. 19 (YPA) – The countries of the Saudi-UAE invasion alliance have worked to create more terrorism in Yemen by financing and supporting al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist operatives in the southern provinces with money and arms since the beginning of their aggression against Yemen on 27 March 2015, under the guise of fighting the so-called “Houthis”.
After the withdrawal of the Yemeni army from the city of Aden and southern provinces in the second half of 2015, Saudi Arabia and the UAE sought to establish their armed militias in the these provinces, which came under control of the so-called exiled Hadi “government”, in the context of division of influence between them over oil resources and seaports located in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.
Official reports and investigative journalism revealed the involvement of the Saudi and UAE invaders in arming al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorist operatives with the latest sophisticated U.S. and European weapons in the past years.
During the years 2016 and 2017, al-Qaeda operatives in Abyan and Shabwah provinces have received large quantities of weapons that were arriving through trucks from Ma’rib province, which is under the control of the Islah party, or through the port of Aden, under the pretext of fighting the so-called “Iranian tide” in Yemen.
In November 2018, a report released by the British newspaper The Guardian confirmed that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have armed terrorist groups in southern Yemen with armored vehicles, rocket launchers and rifles, which were purchased from European and American companies, However, these weapons did not only go to al-Qaeda and ISIS, but also to more marginalized armed groups in order to increase their infighting in these provinces.
According to a report prepared by journalist Mohamed Aboul-Gheit and the network of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) in a documentary titled “The End User”, the UAE-funded Giants Brigades have many members belonging too al-Qaeda. This mercenary gang plays a pivotal role in the war on the West Coast.
The UAE has not only done so, but has tended to establish local regional militias in the southern provinces, under the names of the “Security Belt” or “Ever Forces”, whose fighters often belong to terrorist groups in Shabwah and Abyan, through which they have managed to control the oil sources in Shabwah and Hadhramaut, as well as controlling the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Gulf of Aden, and Socotra Island.
In early February, CNN confirmed that US-made weapons have reached fighters linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation in southern Yemen: weapons which America had supplied to the Saudi-Emirati alliance in the war on Yemen that led an official in Ministry of Defence to demand the Pentagon to open an investigation into the diversion of Saudi and UAE weapons to terrorist elements in Yemen.
The ironic thing is that the US alleged that they are fighting al-Qaeda through air raids in Abyan, Shabwah and Marib, while Saudi Arabia and the UAE are giving the green light to arm those elements with the latest sophisticated weapons.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have not only armed al-Qaeda elements in the southern provinces but have also hired special forces to carry out assassinations in Aden, which have been able to eliminate many military, security and political figures, clerics, preachers, mosque imams, educators and others.
Through the assassination squads, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have been able to spread chaos in the southern provinces, threatening the inhabitants of those provinces by carrying out various terrorist operations. This way they terrorize the population there, many of whom are demanding the departure of the Saudi occupation forces.
In October 2018, the Bazvid News website revealed the involvement of the UAE in the implementation of terrorist and bombing crimes in the southern provinces through the hiring of the American Operations Group company, a hired death squad operated by Israeli officers and American mercenaries.
Since entering the southern provinces, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have, through enormous funds, assigned assassinations to a number of local personalities loyal to them, both from the leadership of the so-called Southern Transitional Council, which is funded by the UAE, or by leaders in the Islah party through the Military leader Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, funded by the Saudi regime. In many cases, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have resorted to assassinate one another’s mercenary leaders and collaborators, in a bloody contest for domination of Yemen’s south.
Events in the southern provinces have proven that terrorism, the spread of chaos, assassinations, bombings, abductions and rape all have a Saudi or UAE imprint within the framework of the American-Zionist project in the Arab region.
These goals were recently illustrated in the Warsaw Conference, where the project was unveiled in cooperation with the exiled Hadi “government”.
In comparison: the governorates of Yemen that are under the control of the National Salvation Government in Sana’a have been able to maintain security and stability and reduce terrorist crimes, and has shown outstanding successes of the security services.
Thanks to the martyrs and wounded who have given their lives for the sake of the homeland the confronting of the Saudi-led aggression on all fronts, the areas liberated by the September 21 Revolution and ruled by the National Salvation Government are safe and secure, while the Saudi-occupied south has turned into a quagmire of violence and despair.
E.M