Deputy Director of Criminal Investigation, Taiz, smuggles Houthis into the city and joins them with Al-Mikhlafi's forces
English - Tuesday 14 April 2020 الساعة 04:31 pm
Taiz, Newsyemen:
Security sources in Taiz Governorate said that military leaders had received information that a senior security official in the governorate had been involved in introducing Houthi elements into the city of Taiz and integrating them into the security forces and the army.
The sources added that the Taiz axis command obtained information revealing the relationship of Colonel Majed Al-Zanqul, the deputy director of criminal investigation in the province and a former military battalion commander, to the Houthi militia.
Al-Zanqul was one of the close associates of Sheikh Hammoud al-Mikhlafi, and the beginning of the war he formed what is called the Zanqul battalion, and the battalion was attached to the army before a decision was issued to appoint al-Zanqul as deputy director of criminal investigation in the Taiz Governorate to become the first man in the criminal investigation department.
The information reveals al-Zanqul's involvement in facilitating the entry of elements who fought with the Houthi militia into the city of Taiz, the majority of which belongs to the provinces of Rima and Dhamar, according to the report.
The sources indicated that many of the Houthi elements that Zanqul facilitated entering Taiz were recruited into the Yafres camps established by Sheikh Hammoud al-Mikhlafi with funding from the State of Qatar.
The past days have witnessed confrontations between gunmen affiliated with Majid al-Zanqul and forces belonging to the 22-mecca brigade in Wadi al-Qadi, against the backdrop of a land dispute, which Zanqul considers a regional target for all the people of Raymah governorate in Taiz and the looting of their property.
