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Arabia
Saba calls off Hadi's congratulation to Al-Assad
2012-04-18
[Yemen Post] The Yemeni News Agency(Saba) has cancelled on Tuesday a news story about a congratulation cable of President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi to the Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
on the 66th anniversary of Syria's Independent Day.

The news story that angered many Yemeni people, in particular those protesters who took to streets against the regime of the former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
was called off two hours after it was published.

Yemen analysts said that the news story aimed to affect Yemeni relationships with the neighboring Gulf States and the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
s States that seek to oust Al-Assad regime.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
a source of the Presidency Office denied that Hadi sent a congratulation cable to Al-Assad, pointing out that Secretary-General of the Presidency Office Abdul-Hadi Al-Hamdani who is close to Saleh was behind the news story.

A source of Saba told Aden Online that the agency received the news story from Hadi's media secretary, Yahya Al-Arasi, pointing out that the agency publishes any news sent from Hadi's office without any amendments.

The source said Al-Arasi belongs to the Alawite Sect in Yemen and he sympathizes with Al-Aassad regime, pointing out that his tends could affect on Hadi'ss regional and international reputation.

"While Yemeni protesters, politicians and activists demand to expel the Syrian Ambassador from Yemen, Hadi's assistant has strong relations with Alawite groups" he added.

According to the source, Al-Arasi had invited journalists to attend a seminar titled (the Esmaili Sect as a model to equal citizenship) and that the seminar was postponed to unknown reasons, pointing out that he also has kinship relationship with the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates....
family in Saada.

Posted by:Fred

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