Emirate officer assigned to manage security chaos in Hadramout
HADRAMOUT, July 10 (YPA) – The UAE has assigned one of its intelligence officers to manage the security chaos in Hadramout province, eastern Yemen, informed political sources revealed on Monday.
The political activist and former leader in the “Southern Resistance,” Adel al-Hassani, confirmed that the UAE assigned the officer, “Hamdan al-Kaabi,” known as “Abu Nasser,” to meet with local groups at al-Rayyan airport in the city of Mukalla, the provincial center, to stir up chaos in the province.
Al-Hassani stated that the Emirati officer distributed the money to the group leaders and instructed them to carry out the task assigned to them.
He wondered, saying, “Will Hadhremi (people of Hadramout) realize the scheme and how to deal with it?”
This came after the pro-Emirati “Hadhrami Hiba” movement called yesterday, Sunday, for its followers to hold angry protests in the districts of Hadramout tomorrow, Tuesday, against the corruption of the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition and its manipulation of the province’s revenues.
Emirati-Saudi disputes in Hadramout have surfaced during the past months, resulting in the Saudi establishment of the “Hadramout national council” of political and tribal figures loyal to it at the end of June to limit the movements of the pro-UAE factions to control the district of the oil-rich province.
This came after the confession of the deputy president of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, Ahmed bin Brik, last month, of an agreement with Saudi Arabia to deploy its loyal “Dera al-Watan” factions in the districts of the Hadramout valley and to remove the brigades of the “First Military Region” affiliated with the Islah Party to Marib province.
In 2016, the UAE closed Al-Rayyan airport to civilian flights, making it a US military base on the coast of the Arabian Sea, after claiming to confront terrorist elements in the city of Mukalla.
The UAE has turned Al-Rayyan Airport into a den for an administration to conspire against the security and stability of Yemen and plunder its oil and gas wealth in the eastern provinces of Yemen, and a part of the airport was turned into secret prisons and detention centers to hide and torture human rights activists opposed to foreign occupation.
Last February, the Saudi “Al-Hadath TV” quoted its sources in the Pentagon as saying that Washington has two CIA military bases in Yemen, one of which is in Mukalla, Hadramout province, without disclosing the other military bases.
YPA