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| Yemenis Stage First Protest Against Rebels Ruling Sanaa | |
| 2014-09-29 | |
[AnNahar] Hundreds of Yemenis erupted into the streets of Sanaa Sunday to demand the withdrawal of Iranian catspaws, in a first protest against the
Protesters from the February 11 Revolution movement marched along the main Zubairi road in Sanaa chanting slogans against the Houthis who remain in control of most of the city. "We don't want Huthis any more," shouted the demonstrators, whose movement was behind the 2011 uprising which ousted 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... Houthis are heavily deployed across Sanaa but there were no reports of confrontations between the The rebels swept down from their stronghold in the rugged northwestern mountains last month, demanding economic and political reforms. Last week, they seized key state installations without resistance, most of them in northern Sanaa, after festivities on the city's outskirts with Islamists killed more than 270 people. The demonstrators on Sunday put out a statement demanding the "withdrawal of all armed militias from the capital and the return of security forces". They also urged the Houthis to "apologize to the Yemeni people" and implement a UN-brokered peace accord, including a security protocol that stipulated their withdrawal from Sanaa once a new prime minister is named. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has failed so far to name a new premier as stipulated by the agreement. After initial hesitation, the rebels signed the security protocol, state and rebel media said on Saturday. In Mazjar, a town in the eastern province of Marib, the entrance of a small hospital used by the Iranian catspaws was targeted by a suicide boom-mobileing on Sunday, tribal sources said. Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , a group linked to Al-Qaeda, said on Twitter that it carried out the attack which had caused "dozens" of casualties. It also grabbed credit for an ambush on the army in Shabwa province that had left three dead and five maimed, although there was no independent confirmation of either toll. Also known as Ansarullah, the Iranian catspaws now in Sanaa have battled the government for years, complaining of marginalization. Yemeni authorities accuse Iran of backing the rebels, who also appear influenced by Leb's powerful Tehran-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah. | |
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