The Muslim Brotherhood accused of launching secret recruitment campaign in Taiz – Details
Following the political losses suffered by the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, the group is attempting to regroup militarily by recruiting more than 15,000 individuals outside the framework of legitimacy and integrating them into the army and security forces in Taiz province.
The member of Brotherhood Mohammed Salem al-Khulani, former head of the military police in Taiz, is conducting recruitment, numbering, and distributing Interior Ministry forms called the Emergency Brigade under the direction of Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Ebrahim Haidan.
Human rights activist and journalist Ahmed Said accused Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar of being behind secret recruitment in Taiz, saying he is still tampering with decisions in Taiz.
The human rights activist, said the Presidential Council had not yet been recognized by the Brotherhood who controls Taiz, stating that the secret recruitment led by the brotherhood member Mohamed Salem al-Khulani continued, despite the directive of the President of the Presidential Council of the Directorate to end conscription.
Said said the recruitment and numbering operations in Taiz are based on instructions and orders from former MP Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, according to officials.
Ahmed Saeed, a human rights activist, said the fact that the member of the Brotherhood, Interior Minister Ibrahim Haidan remains in the ministry poses a threat to the success of the political consensus within the Presidential Council.
Minister Haidan is in a room at Al-Maashiq Palace, while the Interior Ministry is running it through Deputy Abboud al-Sharif from the Seiyun Reform Headquarters, he said, adding that this headquarters is now recruiting rapid intervention battalions in the provinces under the name of “security battalions”.
