Traffic Militias in Sanaa: Rising conflicts and unexplained killings
Large Houthi leaders are racing to consolidate their influence in Sanaa by forming and building new military and security forces and groups to add to their militia formations.
The most prominent of these influential Houthi leaders is the so-called “Abdel Karim al-Houthi”, the uncle of the rebel leader who was appointed as the interior minister in the unrecognized coup government.
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Recently, Houthi militias pushed new groups in the kidnapped capital of Sanaa to replace the traffic police organizing the traffic operation, under the guidance of the powerful leader Abdel Karim al-Houthi.
The Houthi militias called the groups “traffic control” police and deployed heavily to Sanaa neighborhoods, not just the main traffic lines, as is known, to deploy traffic police.
Members of these new groups, which are affiliated with Interior Minister Abdel Karim al-Houthi, cover their faces with the mask of the anti-terrorism forces and special missions despite their wearing the uniforms of the “traffic police”.
Pictures of buses parked on both sides of the road near al-Ruwaishan tour in central Sanaa show the moment the forces deployed to conduct thorough searches that exceed the duties of traffic policemen and traffic policemen.
Sanaa is witnessing a fierce conflict between the major Houthi leaders. The most prominent of these conflicts is between Abdel Karim Al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi militias, and Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, a prominent leader who is aspiring to play a pivotal role within the hierarchical and organizational structure of the terrorist group.
Hawks are fighting:
Security sources in Sana’a revealed recruitment operations by the Houthi coup interior minister, Abdel Karim al-Houthi, which includes several sections of the interior, including emergency services, traffic, central security, facilities police, the ministry’s general directorate and public security.
The influential leader of the militias, Abdel Karim Al-Houthi, is recruiting large numbers of new recruits, the majority from the areas of Sa’ada, Amran, Sana’a, Dhamar and Hajjah, which are affiliated with the extremist wing of the militias, the so-called Hawks Wing, which is most closely linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
According to the sources, the leader Abdel Karim Al-Houthi is building what resembles his own force, using the Ministry of the Interior in the coup government as a framework and cover to build these military groups. These groups receive intensive training that includes the use of medium and heavy weapons, such as tanks and artillery.
It said field training is provided to the groups recruited by al-Houthi, such as urban combat, storming buildings and special operations.
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These moves come to have a strong military and security bloc in the game of competition for military influence within the militia formation, which is centered on a conflict between Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi and Abdel Karim Al-Houthi, who aspires to succeed the leader of the coup militias.
With this step, Abdel Karim al-Houthi will take control of all areas of the capital Sanaa, including roads and Sanaa’s interior ports, which are a check on the movements and locations of militia leaders, according to security sources.
Lie of traffic control:
Despite the unacknowledged attempts of the coup government’s interior to promote this armed deployment as a way to regulate traffic and reduce bottlenecks in the capital’s streets, the spread of new groups of this size and their scrutiny of people’s identities instead of driving licenses and vehicle ownership reveal the main goal of deploying these heavily armed groups in the middle of the streets.
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The spread of these militia groups and their scrutiny of identities to be confirmation of the course of the Houthi conflict and the rise of mysterious assassinations that have targeted a number of the militia’s leaders and field supervisors, some of whom occupy high military ranks and occupy high positions.
Among those killed in Sanaa was “Abulkarar Saad Al-Morani”, security supervisor for Houthi militias in Huth District, Amran province, through his bodyguard in the past few days.
“The majority of the assassinations have been attributed to the growing conflict between Houthi militia leaders, competing for control of power centers and gaining access to wealth”.
Over the past two months, Sanaa witnessed more than 34 killings of civilians and Houthi leaders as part of the mutual elimination of Houthi security and military militias.
