A Yemeni committee will resume talks next week with more than 600 detainees of the Believing Youth group (Al Shabab Al Mumen) in an attempt to convince them to give up their extremist ideas, religious sources said. The five-member Thoughtful Dialogue Committee began its dialogue sessions early last March, but were suspended following an armed rebellion which broke out in the north. "The dialogue with those influenced by the ideas of Shaikh Hussain Badr Al Deen Al Houthi [the slain preacher] and his father, Badr Al Deen Al Houthi, is the only solution to the problem, said Judge Hamoud Al Hetar, committee chairman yesterday.Meanwhile, Yahya Badr Al Deen Al Houthi, Member of Parliament and son of Badr Al Deen Al Houthi, said that the solution to the rebellion is with the President, Ali Abdullah Saleh. "We appeal to the President to have mercy on my father considering his old age," Yahya told the London-based Al Sharq Al Awsat over the phone from Sweden. He appealed to Saleh to put an end to "killing and detaining of Zaidis", referring to his father's followers. He pointed out that his eighty-two-year-old father is suffering from asthma and other diseases, confirming that he is in contact with him. He said government troops killed four of his 13 brothers and jailed three.