Government declares end of military operations

The following article is from the Yemen Times... though poorly edited, it is quite revealing...

the question it begs is this: When someone is an Ithna Ashari Shia named Hossein, lives in Sa'ada, Yemen, has a mass following there, and is supposedly calling for the "restoral" of Imamate, what sort of Imamate would he be talking about?





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Mohammed bin Sallam


YEMENTIMES.COM

Sheikh Al-Houthi’s rebellion will be fully annihilated within 12 hours, also state forces have conquered all of the Mran area though there remain a few pockets of resistance in villages, said Army Chief of Staff Brigadier Mohammed Al-Qasimi.
He said there are a number of armed groups in the northeastern outskirts of Sa’ada, which have been given a warning to surrender, otherwise “they should expect an attack of similar ferocity. ”
“Bloody battles are continuing between Al-Houthi’s militants and government troops in Mran and Hamdan areas. The army now controls a huge area because of superiority in numbers and resources- they used warplanes, regularly bomb Al-Houthi followers,” said a source close to Al-Houthi on Saturday night in a telephone conversation with the Yemen Times.

Eyewitnesses confirmed to France Press that the army used tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery, as Al-Houthi’s followers displayed violent resistance from their positions, sniping and targeting government troops with heavier weapons such as machine guns and missile launchers.
The army went on the offensive after the failure of mediations. Previously President Saleh had ordered, on July 27, a committee to be formed consisting of 26 leading figures including opposition party leaders, ministers, parliamentarians and clerics.
The mediation yielded no results. The committee returned to Sana’a having two opinions, one of them disapproved the army’s breaching the truce suggested by the committee whilst others approved of a military assault backed by high ranking army officials.
The committee, after returning from Sa’ada had held a meeting with the president, in which he asked them to sign a statement that approved of a military solution to the problem. But the majority of the committee members refused to sign the way the President wanted. The committee has been holding meetings till the writing this article and is expected to issue a statement, which has been delayed due to the majority of the committee members abstaining from Saturday’s meeting.
The supporters of Al-Houthi had been increasing in number, reaching recently 3000 men in comparison to 15000 government troops. Bloody clashes had started on June 18 and were continuing upto the writing of this article, claiming the lives of over a thousand civilans and troops, while the number of the wounded is much more. Losses in property and homes have not been estimated yet.
Hussein Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi, a former member of Parliament, follows the Ja’afari school of religion, and is leader of a Shiite group named the “Believing Youth”, which similarly cherishes the Ja’afari school so popular in Iran. The group was established in 1997 with the support of the government to block the Wahabi school in Saudi Arabia to influence the northern part of Yemen, basically inhabited by Zaidis and Ismailis. Many Shiite schools were established along the Yemeni Saudi borders. The Yemeni government recently turned on Al-Houthi, accusing him of proclaiming himself as a Commander of Believers (ruler), calling for restoring the Imamate and threatening the wider peace.
Al-Houthi denies this. He told the BBC in an interview from his stronghold in the Mran area that the state’s allegations are “groundless.” “I call for reciting the holy Koran, disseminating it among people, and hating America and Israel,” stated he.
He said the dispute with the government is political in nature and could have been solved through peaceful negotiations and not through military might and acts of killing and destruction.
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Breeding Fanatics, The Jewel Offspring and the Culture of Baseej
Sirralkhalta i.e. the “Secret Formula”
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By Yahya Al-Olfi alolfi@hotmail.com


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Myself, like many Yemenis, denounced the government for its arbitrary arrests of the youth shouting “Death to Israel” Death to USA”. This is because, we thought that this is merely a reflection of the crimes committed by the Israelis against Palestinians and shamelessly endorsed by the USA. But later discerned that such maniacs are in for a holy war against the state, against reason and against the era we are living in. They want to die so that they can credulously win paradise where they were made to believe that they would willow in eternal luxury (who on earth would refuse eternal life with abundant Milk, Honey, Wine and Seventy Gorgeous Lassies for each and every martyr dying in defense of the jewel offspring).
Shiite Islam, is known as a wayward version from mainstream moderate Islam and its secret formula lies in the alleged lineage to the prophet who passed away without leaving any male children. For political reasons and so as to monopoly power or attain a higher status came such a fake lineage.
Indeed in Yemen, this was utilized by the Persians in order to maintain their privileges from which they were threatened to be dispossessed. So this is why they go on against reason. Also, we must not forget that inheritance in religion is deeply ingrained in the human Psyche and that can be easily grasped when looking back at preislamic religions and the religions still practiced nowadays by other humans in the jungles of Africa and South America. In fact, a man like Ibrahim Ben Ali Al-Wazeer- who is living in the USA- has not been affected yet by the extent of human advance in the USA after more than 30 years of residency and still pitifully believes that he is the one and only because he comes from a celestial spiritual jewel as you shall see below.
I have also been intrigued by “Al-Sadr phenomenon in Iraq” because the man came out of nowhere and tended to believe that the Americans were behind him at the start but later found out from listening to the news and reading papers that someone else is standing behind him.
The same applies on Al-Houthi and his fellow minded Yemenis. Anyhow, while I was riding the other day on a minibus I heard a 14 years old boy opposite me telling another one next to him that he has just gotten his graduation certificate from “Badrr center”. The other one asked him where was such a center and what privileges did it offer. The boy answered that, studies and board were on the account of a certain man named “Al-Mahatwari”.
When he took out the certificate in order to show it to his peer I took a glimpse of a fascicle titled “ The Islamic History” in a distinct writing. Under the title I read: “ The Prophet peace be upon him, Ali, Al-Hassan and Al-Hussain Peace be upon them all”.
Out of curiosity and due to what is taking place in Saada and in Najaf by the Shiite fanatics I asked him to please let me have a look . He gave me the fascicle. I opened it expecting to read an objective subject matter dealing with Islamic history but was startled to read a concocted Hadeeth (i.e. supposititious sayings of Prophet Mohammed) The saying goes on to say that almighty Allah (from IEL i.e. God in Semitic Languages such as Karbiel and Gabriel) created a Jewel from his spirit and broke it into two halves, one half dwelled by the offspring of Abdullah i.e. Prophet’s father and the other half for the offspring of Abutalib i.e. uncle of the prophet, the father of Ali.
Then, the almighty ordained that Mohammed becomes his prophet and Messenger and Ali with his offspring become the Custodians after the prophet till doomsday”. The student seems to be from outside Sana’a and as I had to descend because I reached my destination I sufficed myself with quick flicking. A serious question is raised here, who is behind such a center and why did the state permit it to be built on a public property. If the state is behind such “Superstition Teaching Centers” for political reasons, it is now reaping its crop in Saada. If religion is important in non-Arab countries, it is everything in the Arab World and playing with religion is playing with fire.
Who is financing such centers and what sin did the young people commit to let them join these dens of evil and later meet the destiny of the misled fanatics who are now dying in Saada for mere nonsense aided by some tribal sheiks who in the day declare allegiance to the state and shift allegiance in the night just like in the first days of “26th September revolution” keen not to miss worldly interests and are intent to maintain their clandestine religious conviction. Don’t we know that the so-called “Al-Houthi” in Saada merely represents a HISTORIC LIE whereby Yemeni Persians saved themselves from Alshaibani’s wrath after foiling the Barmakide Attempt. This Lie is only compared to the ETHIOPIAN LIE in that Ethiopia is the original land of the Kingdom of Sheba, the evidence is available in history, customs, traditions, names, customs etc. and Yemenis are not idiots for they kept fighting this sinister lie and are still adamant.
The poor youngster fanatics in Saada seek redemption and are being redeemed by the ignorant inheritors of the said fib. The president once said:
“…one should not breed a serpent lest he becomes its victim….” and this is what is happening due to the permission for books issued by “Imam Hussain Foundation in Qum, Iran” to invade the market for I saw with another student a book about “Enjoyment Marriage” published by the same foundation and is authored by a man named “ Mohammed Takki Alhakeem” and bearing the word “Gift” and the stamped address of the foundation in addition to a Magazine titled Al-Husseiniah containing a saying: ” If you weep or merely sob for Alhussein’s death in Karbala, the paradise is guaranteed for you in the hereafter”.
So the Shiite fanatics in Saada are fighting under the title “ Death to Israel and Death to USA” because they believe that the ignorant rogue Alhouthi comes from the Jewel thing and he is their redeemer. They are wishing to die under his flag because he has given them “Indulgence Deeds” just like Al-Khomeini’s Baseej who used to die in swarms during the first gulf war. Shiite Fanaticism is detrimental to Arabs and Muslims and represents less than dust specks with regard to Israel or USA.
Truly such an Islamic school is a malignant carcinoma whose remedy is only successful by elimination because it is even detrimental to the land and the plants and is worse than nuclear waste. Again, the insurgency is Hadaoist and Persian-based not a home-made Zaidi one as wrongly proclaimed. =============== FEATURE-Broader sectarian rift feared in northern Yemen 20 Dec 2011 17:20 Source: Reuters // Reuters A tribal fighter loyal to tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar walks near a building damaged during recent clashes with government forces in Sanaa December 20, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah * Fighting between Shi'ite Houthis and Sunni Salafis * Foreign powers accused of backing both sides * Conflict feared to spill into Saudi Arabia * U.N. envoy meets with Houthis By Tom Finn SAADA, Yemen, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Their faces bruised and limbs scarred by bullet wounds, scores of young men writhed in agony on shabby mattresses at a Yemeni hospital in Saada, victims of a conflict largely hidden from the world. Shi'ite Muslim rebels in Yemen's northern mountains near Saudi Arabia had fought government forces for years until an uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh this year gave them a free hand in the lawless frontier province of Saada. In recent months the conflict, next door to the world's top oil exporter, has taken on a dangerous sectarian twist. The Houthis, as the rebels are known after the clan of their leaders, have been fighting Salafis, a hardline Sunni Islamic group whose creed is similar to that of Saudi Arabia. Each side offers conflicting accounts on everything from air strikes to motives. The Houthis accuse the Salafis of receiving funds and arms from Saudi Arabia, while the Salafis say their religious schools have been shelled by the Shi'ite rebels. The Houthis deny charges by the Yemeni government and some of its regional allies that they have ties to non-Arab, mostly Shi'ite Iran. The Houthis adhere to the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, doctrinally distinct from that practised in Iran. In the Saudi-funded hospital, Salafi and Houthi fighters lay side by side, nursing wounds from renewed clashes in the Salafi stronghold Damaj that coincided with a visit to Houthi leaders this month by U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar. Some muttered prayers to themselves and stared vacantly at the ceiling. Most were unwilling or unable to talk. A man named Ali, with a pale face and a thick black beard who identified himself as a "supporter" of the Salafis in Damaj, accused the Houthis of trying to "exterminate Sunnis from Saada". Although Saleh has signed a deal to hand power to his deputy after 10 months of protests, Yemen is still roiled by a southern separatist movement and al Qaeda-linked militants who have seized territory in the south, as well as the Houthi revolt. While Saudi Arabia was worried by the potential breakup of Yemen, it was particularly alarmed by the prospect of a Shi'ite mini-state springing up on its border, said Hasan Zaid of Yemen's Shi'ite-dominated al-Haq party. "They hope by funding the Salafis they can weaken the growing strength and popularity of the Houthi movement," he said. Saudi Arabia intervened militarily against the Houthis in 2009 before a ceasefire took hold last year. ANTI-U.S., ANTI-ISRAELI SLOGANS Residents said the latest bout of sectarian violence erupted in early October when a boy walked into a Salafi-controlled medical center brandishing a Houthi protest sign. The boy was assaulted by the Salafis, residents said, triggering an armed conflict, which has continued sporadically in spite of nearly a dozen mediation attempts. "Negotiations have reached a dead end," said Mohammed Abdul-Azizi, a youth activist who accompanied an eight-person delegation from Sana'a to mediate. "Too many people have interests in this conflict." With the government distracted by months of mass protests demanding an end to Saleh's 33 years in office, the Houthis have been able to extend their grip over most of Saada province. Although the latest round of fighting between government forces and the Houthis officially ceased in 2010, the human and financial toll on Saada is still plain to see. Lean-looking children on crutches, maimed by shrapnel, hobble frantically in lines of moving traffic, begging drivers for food and money. Local doctors estimate that 2,000 men, women and children have been handicapped as a result of the war. Years of air raids have virtually demolished Saada's old town, once a proud symbol of Yemen's ancient architecture. Hundreds of houses, their mud-brick walls pocked with bullets, lie empty in a tangle of floorboards, rusting refrigerators and broken stairwells. As Benomar toured Saada city last week, Houthi slogans were everywhere, stencilled in red and green on billboards, government buildings and mosques: "God is Greatest. Death to America. Death to Israel. Damned be the Jews. Victory to Islam." POLITICAL PROCESS Although Yemen has a Sunni majority, most northerners are Zaydis. The two communities have a tradition of peaceful coexistence, but the sectarian aspect of the conflict in the north has prompted fears of a wider confrontation. Following his rare meeting with Houthi leaders, Benomar said they were willing to "engage in political negotiations" with the new government and enter a process of national dialogue. Yemen's wealthy Gulf Arab neighbours, with Benomar's help, brokered the power transfer deal with Saleh which led to the formation of a national unity government tasked with preparing for presidential election in February. Like southern separatists, the Houthis are hoping that a federal system will emerge under the new constitution which will grant them more autonomy, Benomar said after talks with the rebels' 35-year-old leader, Abdel Malik al-Houthi. "The Houthis sense there is a new political situation evolving, one which they can potentially be part of," Benomar told Reuters. "For years they have been complaining about exclusion and marginalisation and their main concern now is that the new political deal should not be limited to the traditional political parties." (Writing by Mahmoud Habboush; Editing by Sami Aboudi and Sonya Hepinstall) ================