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Southern Movement reveal plans to fight Saudi-led coalition in southern Yemen
2022-12-29
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The so-called "Southern Movement" on Wednesday revealed arrangements to spark a civil war in southern 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...
This coincides with Saudi threats to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC).

Abdurahman al-Wali, head of what was known as the "Southern Parliament", said in a post on his official page on social media that "the south is being pushed against its will towards rupture and disintegration, and deepening tribal and regional alignment."

Al-Wali considered this alignment as a result of regional and international feeding in favor of external agendas, and not due to deep roots internally.

Al-Wali’s statements coincide with calls in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
province, which throughout history constituted turning points in the south’s path, for a wide tribal meeting aimed at expelling the STC, in parallel with a Saudi threat to spark a civil war in the south in response to the STC’s efforts to control the oil plateau of Hadhramaut.
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