Sources: Al-Houthi seeks to release leaders of al-Qaeda in Sanaa prisons

English - Wednesday 15 July 2020 الساعة 03:48 pm
Sanaa, Newsyemen, private:

Sources in the Houthi militia-controlled intelligence apparatus have revealed the involvement of Houthi leaders and supervisors in seeking the release of some of the Al-Qaeda leaders held in political and national security prisons in Sana'a.

The sources said: Some Houthi leaders, including supervisors and some sheikhs appointed by the militias as members of the Shura Council, are making unremitting efforts to release a number of al-Qaeda leaders who are serving prison sentences based on judicial rulings issued against them by the Yemeni judiciary during the last period or elements that have been arrested and deposited prison before the Houthi militia coup and its control of state institutions in September 2014.

According to the sources, there is a relationship of kinship between the leaderships affiliated with Al Qaeda and imprisoned in prisons, and the leaders and supervisors of the Houthis who are seeking to release them, and they are using their positions to press for the release of those terrorist elements.

The sources, who declined to be named, indicated that the Houthi leadership in the intelligence service requested written orders from the militia’s political council leadership or the militia leader personally, in an attempt to evacuate their responsibility if the mediation of militia leaders succeeded by pressuring them to release those terrorist elements.

It pointed out that some of the terrorist leaderships that the Houthi leaders are seeking to release are accused of carrying out terrorist acts, including attacking the headquarters of foreign embassies and bombings in the capital, Sanaa, and some governorates, and that these elements are placed on international terrorist lists, especially the American and British ones, which stands behind the fear of the intelligence agency leadership Al-Houthi released it, thus finding a justification for the Americans and the British to use this paper against the militias in international forums.