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Senior Yemeni Military Leader Killed in Car Bombing in Aden
2022-03-24


A boom-mobileing killed a senior Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i military leader and three of his entourage in the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday, three security sources said.

The defense ministry confirmed that Brigadier General Thabet Gawas was killed in a "cowardly attack carried out by several terrorist elements" but provided no further details.

Gawas was returning from a personal visit when his car was hit by the blast in a suburb of the city, the security sources said. Aden's AIC Television showed footage of a car in flames.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Gawas had long been an enemy of the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
militias, fighting them in their northern stronghold of Saada even before the 2014 coup against the legitimate government.

In 2004, he led the first military operation against the Houthi rebellion that ended with the killing of the founder of the militias, Hussein Badreddine al-Houthi. The operation earned him the name "Vanquisher of the Houthis" among several Yemenis.

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