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| Three Dead in Attack on Yemen Shiite Rebel Leader |
| 2013-03-24 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen in Yemen on Saturday killed three guards of a leader of 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. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... Iranian catspaws who escaped the liquidation bid in Sanaa where he is taking part in a national dialogue, witnesses said. The gunnies shot up the vehicle of Abdulwahid Abu Ras, the rebel chief in the northern province of al-Jawf, in Nasr Street in the capital shortly after the morning session of the talks, witnesses said. Three guards were killed and two were maimed, they said. Saba state news agency cited the head of the national dialogue, Abdulwahab al-Ansi, as condemning the attack on Abu Ras during the afternoon session of talks. "Those behind the attack want us to withdraw from this conference, but we will stay," said Houthi MP Abdulkarim al-Jadban, addressing participants in the talks. Yemeni factions began last week a national dialogue aimed at drafting a new constitution and an electoral law for the 2014 general election and presidential polls. The dialogue, scheduled to run for six months, brings together 565 representatives of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country's various political groups -- from secessionists in the south to Zaidi Iranian catspaws in the north, in addition to civil society representatives. The negotiations are being held under the U.N.-brokered deal that eased former strongman 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... out of office in February 2012 following an 11-month uprising against his 33-year rule. |
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