Southern politicians reveal Houthi plan to control Shabwah
Security agencies in Shabwah Province (southeast Yemen) have dismantled a terrorist cell linked to Houthi militias that carried out terrorist operations last October.
Houthi terrorism
A security source revealed that the Houthi cell was preparing to carry out terrorist operations targeting high-ranking leaders in Shabwah province, including Governor Awad Bin Al-Wazir Al-Awlaki, leaders from the Arab Alliance, the Shabwah Defense Forces, the Giants’ Brigades, and military and security leaders; noting that the Houthi cell planted two improvised explosive devices last October; According to the statement, the cell members admitted to detonating another explosive device placed on the roadside on Martyr Qatan Street, targeting a crew of the Martyr Qatan Brigade that had a former security chief on board. The explosion killed his son, injured three others, and caused material damages to citizens’ shops and homes.
Shabwah governor targeted
In the same context, the Houthi cell attempted to target the governor of Shabwa, Awad Bin Al-Wazir Al-Awlaki, shortly after he confronted an armed rebellion by forces loyal to the Reform Party of the Muslim Brotherhood. Through this cell, it tried to turn him into a military coup, but the “Shabwah Defense Force” and the “Forces of the Giants” intervened in a military operation that culminated in the control of the situation in a fast and record manner.
Houthi terrorist designation
The Yemeni cabinet, meeting in the interim capital of Aden last Wednesday, called on Yemen’s partners in the fight against terrorism, the world’s countries and the international community to designate Houthi militias as a terrorist organization, ban contacts with them, and dry up their funding sources.
On October 21, the Houthi group claimed a “minor warning strike” on an oil tanker in Dhabba port in the eastern province of Hadramawt.
Security vacuum
Wadah Bin Attiyah, a member of the Southern National Assembly and a member of the Riyadh Consultations, said: “It is well known that Houthi controlled state agencies in Sana’a, including the National Security and Political Security Apparatus. Therefore, most of the terrorist operations targeting field leaders are planned by Houthi and carried out with the cooperation of the Brotherhood organization in Yemen.”
He added that criminal operations recently focused on Shabwah with the aim of creating a security vacuum and creating chaos to prepare the ground so that the Houthis can invade and occupy Shabwah to break the back of the south, through which they want to control oil and gas and re-smuggle from the Arabian Sea, which was taking place at the time of the Brotherhood’s control of Shabwah. He added that the southern forces, led by the Giants’ forces and the Shabwah defense forces, are aware of this dangerous scheme, and with the support and backing of those working with all force to foil those malicious schemes that threaten social peace and security in the region and the line of navigation and international energy.
The Yemeni political analyst said that the southern forces are fighting on a number of fronts and are confronting terrorism on two fronts: the ISIS Brotherhood and the sectarian Houthis. There is a clear failure on the part of the international community and the international anti-terrorism coalition to provide military and logistical support, as well as their leniency towards countries and entities that support the Houthis and the Brotherhood and spread chaos in the south and the liberated areas; had it not been for the southern forces, the Gulf of Aden, Bab al-Mandab, the shipping line and the global energy would have been at the mercy of the militias.
For his part, Suhaib Nasser Al-Humairi, a southern activist, said: The targeting of the high-ranking leaders, who owe allegiance to the South and the South cause, is done through groups of a religious nature. This ideology extended to these forces to control the oil-rich southern regions, not only in Shabwah, from Aden to Shabwah and Hadramaut. He confirmed that this targeting was not a good day today, but since the unity agreement between the South and North Yemen. The targeting and liquidation of the Southern leaders is taking place, and no leader has been targeted to this day. However, after the Southern Forces were reinforced with weapons, fortified and trained, most of the schemes that lead to the targeting of the high-ranking leaders and thwarting the plans of the Brotherhood and the Houthi organization.
