"Al-Islah officers carry out smuggling operations and shocking information about Al-Ahmar in arming Houthi
English - Wednesday 22 April 2020 الساعة 07:01 pm
Aden, Newsyemen:
The local Al-Sharea newspaper revealed new information about the smuggling and sale of arms shipments to the Houthi militia, in which military leaders associated with General Ali Mohsen and the Islah Party were involved.
The newspaper said, in a report published on Tuesday, that the military leaders involved in looting weapons from "army" stores and smuggling them to the militia are linked to Vice President Ali Mohsen and the Islah party.
According to the newspaper, dozens of smuggled arms shipments originated from Marib and another that came from Oman, and military leaders were involved in facilitating the passage of arms shipments from Oman to the Houthi militia.
It added that many of the arms smuggled arms to the Houthi militia originate from the "Ruweik", the headquarters of Ali Mohsen in Marib.
Al-Sharea indicated that the army leaders loyal to Al-Ahmar and the Islah Party control the land outlets with Oman, and all roads leading from Mahra to Marib.
It stated that during the past five years of the war in Yemen, a significant number of arms shipments were stopped and seized during attempts to smuggle them from the Ma'rib Governorate to the Houthi militia, or towards the southern governorates. Likewise, more smuggled arms shipments to the militia and towards the south were detected.
Military and local sources reported that military leaders in Marib and previously in Al-Jawf have looted weapons from government forces stores, sold them / sold them at low prices to the Houthi militia, and facilitate their smuggling operations to areas of their control; or participate directly in these smuggling operations.
The sources pointed out that the military leaders who have looted weapons from the "army" stores, and facilitate their smuggling to the Houthi militia, or to the southern provinces, are linked to the team, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, Vice President of the Republic, and the Islah party, and are protected and supported by both sides.
The newspaper said that the Houthi militia was able to build a secret network through which it purchases weapons from leaders in "government forces" (mostly through arms dealers), and it also built a vast smuggling network through which it transports these weapons, in separate shipments, to the areas under its control.
According to the sources, smuggling operations are carried out through the transport of weapons in shipments that are transported to the militia-controlled areas; through arms dealers and extensive smuggling networks that employ arms dealers, government military leaders, tribal sheikhs, and local destinations in more than one region.
It reported that other smuggling networks, in the southern governorates, are smuggling other arms shipments from Yemen to the Horn of Africa; by sea. A number of those shipments come from, or pass through, Marib.
Information indicates that most of the arms smuggling operations are carried out from the two governorates of Marib, and Al-Jawf which were under the control of the legitimacy previously, and through arms dealers and military and tribal forces with direct links with the leadership of the local authority in the two governorates, and links at a higher level with Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, and leaders of the Islah Party, and others linked to the Houthi militia.
The sources added that arms dealers in Sana'a and other governorates (loyal to the Houthi militia) have strong interests in military commanders in Marib and Al-Jawf (before the militia took over Jawf).
According to the sources, these military leaders have looted / are looting weapons from “army” stores, selling them to the militia through their associated arms dealers, and facilitating their smuggling operations to Houthi-controlled areas, especially Sanaa.
Information says that arms dealers loyal to the militia have found several ways in which they have secured the delivery of money (the value of weapons) to the military leaders who are traitors in Ma'rib today, and al-Jawf before.
Al-Sharea newspaper said that due to these smuggling operations, the Houthi militia gets many of the weapons provided by the Arab coalition to the "army" of the "legitimacy."
The newspaper said, the evidence that the Houthis get the Cornet, the American “Al-Jaitri” and the “Al-Salmani Al-Jaitri” missiles (this is how the forces loyal to legitimate government call it, according to King Salman, and according to that its manufacturing in Saudia during the reign of King Salman).
The Saudi soldiers are armed with this "Jitiry" made in their country. Houthis also get snipers, and the American improvised weapons caliber fifty. These are American weapons that the Yemeni army had not previously armed with, but rather, after 2015, the "coalition" provided them for "legitimate" forces in Marib and Al-Jawf.
