Yemeni ex-President Saleh killed by Houthis following his realignment with Saudis

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The former President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has been killed by Houthi fighters. Meanwhile, violence rages in the capital Sanaa following the breakdown of Saleh’s alliance with the movement last week.

Saleh’s death has been confirmed, both by his own General People’s Congress party and the Houthi-backed media. According to media claims, the movement has now gained the upper hand in the capital.  

“The ministry of interior statement announces that they have taken over all the positions and strongholds of the treacherous militia in Sanaa and the surrounding areas, as well as other provinces in order to impose security,” Houthi TV reported adding that “Saleh and his supporters” had been killed.

In a statement on Monday, Saleh declared that Yemen “had to be saved from the madness of the Houthi group.”

Houthi sources reported that Saleh, who led the country from 1978 until 2011, was ambushed while attempting to flee the capital towards the province of Marib. His car, which was also carrying the secretary-general of his party, Yasser al-Awadi, was allegedly first hit by an RPG, and then riddled with bullets as Salah tried to escape on foot.

Unverified images allegedly depicting a dead Saleh with a fatal gunshot head wound have surfaced online. A video was uploaded to social media, in which fighters cried “Praise to Allah!” as they showed off the dead 75-year-old’s body to the camera operator.

Other reports said that Houthis had blown up Saleh’s home in Sanaa, and wounded and captured his son, Khaled.

Saleh, who was deposed as part of the Arab spring that swept through the region over six years ago, had formed an uneasy alliance with the Houthis against the Saudi-led coalition after war broke out in the country in 2014.

But in the wake of a falling-out with the Houthis sparked by a dispute over control of a mosque in Sanaa on Wednesday, Saleh said that he was prepared to turn a “new page” with the Saudis, provided they lifted the debilitating blockade of the country.

“I call upon the brothers in neighboring states and the alliance to stop their aggression, lift the siege, open the airports and allow food aid and the saving of the wounded and we will turn a new page by virtue of our neighborliness,” he said.

The Houthis immediately labeled him a traitor, and according to the International Committee of the Red Cross more than 125 people have died in fighting between the two factions over the past six days.

The intensified fighting, during which the US-backed Saudi force shelled the Iran-supported Houthis to reinforce their new-found ally, has “completely paralyzed humanitarian operations” in the Yemeni capital, AP reported Monday citing an adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, Suze van Meegen. “No one is safe in Sanaa at the moment,” she said.

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4 thoughts on “Yemeni ex-President Saleh killed by Houthis following his realignment with Saudis

  1. We all know who started and supports this evil done by jews pretending to be arabs, like the Saud family have been since they betrayed the Turks in W.W. 1, then the peoples of Arabia throwing in with the jews and claiming them as brothers, because of course, they are.

    “We, the Saudi Family, are cousins of the Jews: we entirely disagree with any Arab or Muslim Authority which shows any antagonism to Jews; but we must live together with them in peace. Our country (Arabia) is the fountain head from where the first Jew sprang, and his descendants spread out all over the world.”
    King Faisal Al-Saud bin Abdul Aziz’s statement to the Washington Post, Sept.17, 1969:

    1. THANK YOU for posting that statement by King Faisal–I can’t tell you how many I’ve tried to convince that the Saudis are Donmeh Jews after all (and glad I finally spelled Donmeh correctly!)

    2. Which Turks did they betray? the Turks who ran the old Ottoman Empire in WW1, or the ones who took over after WW1, Attaturk and the rest–who were also Donmeh?

  2. Wasn’t there a huge shipment docking in Saana just 4 or 5 days ago with humanitarian relief supplies for civilians? Who controls that now?

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