International newspaper: The Yemeni Brotherhood is preparing to use Turkish drones
English - Sunday 06 September 2020 الساعة 05:21 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The London-based Al-Arab newspaper reported that the military escalation, by the Muslim Brotherhood, in the governorate of Abyan, in southern Yemen, comes in the context of the pro-Qatar movement’s attempt to “legitimize” the pro-Qatari movement to dissuade interim President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi from any efforts to bring about changes in the legitimacy structure that might weaken the influence of this movement.
The newspaper said, in a report published on Saturday, that the escalation of military confrontations in Abyan, while consultations are underway to form the new government in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in an attempt to thwart the agreement and implement a Brotherhood plan supported by Qatar to impose a fait accompli policy in southern Yemen and tighten the screws on Aden is from the axes of Abyan and Tor Al-Baha, in parallel with the Houthi attack on Al-Dhalea, which draws a geopolitical triangle for the scheme targeting the areas of influence of the Southern Transitional Council and the implementation of the project to transfer the conflict to southern Yemen.
The newspaper, citing Yemeni sources, describing it as well-informed, revealed an expected development in the scenario of expanding the circle of war and aborting the Riyadh agreement through an agenda supported by Qatar and Turkey aimed at removing the situation from the control of the Arab coalition and dragging the parties opposing the Houthi coup into an open military, political and media conflict that enhances the influence of other regional countries that are hostile to the Arab coalition countries, and is working to find a foothold in the Yemeni scene by exploiting its ideological influence and moving its influential tools in the Yemeni government institutions.
The sources said that the media rumors broadcast by Yemeni activists and media figures close to Doha and Turkey in the past two days, claimed the participation of drones in targeting the Brotherhood militia in Abyan, a pre-preparation in order to justify the use of drones affiliated with the Brotherhood in the coming period, with drones obtained from Turkey.
It indicated that since last May, Turkish officers in Shabwa governorate have been training armed elements of what is known as the "Popular Mobilization" camp funded by Qatar (supervised by the former Yemeni Minister of Transport, Saleh al-Jabwani), to use drones in aerial photography and to identify and monitor fixed and moving targets, in There was information about discussing the possibility of transferring the Houthi’s experiment in directing booby-trapped aircraft to the Brotherhood’s militia.
Al-Arab quoted Yemeni political researcher Mahmoud Al-Taher as saying that the confrontations are a new attempt to provoke the southerners and force them to adhere to a previous decision on suspending consultations related to the Riyadh Agreement, to create pretexts to launch a military operation to target the southern governorates, to reduce the area controlled by the Transitional Council and impose a new reality in the negotiations, and the deduction from the Transitional Council’s share in the government and the political benefits it obtained under the agreement.
Al-Taher doubted the possibility of reaching a consensus on the form of the next government according to the timetable set in the mechanism for accelerating the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement, given the complications that permeate the consultations for the distribution of ministerial portfolios, and the obstacles that the Islah party, which controls the political and military decision, places in the legitimacy of implementing the agreement.
This means, according to Al-Taher, that there is a clear harmony between the attempts to empty the political consultations of their content and fuel the military situation in order to delay the implementation of the agreement.
Al-Taher believes that the talk about implementing the Riyadh Agreement in the near future does not correspond to reality. Because of what he calls the fraud practiced by the Brotherhood, the lack of intention on its part to unify efforts towards confronting the Iranian project, and the unwillingness to lose the commercial interests of the military and political leaders who are profiting from the war.
In addition to this, a broad current identifies with the Turkish and Qatari agenda, which has become intersecting with the Iranian agenda, which calls for swift action by the Arab coalition to besiege this growing current within the legitimacy and to exert pressure to push political consultations and bring the government to light, so that all the active Yemeni political components participate in it. On the ground, which is exposed to a state of exclusion by the Brotherhood.
The "Arab" had previously revealed the request of the Brotherhood in Yemen and the pro-Doha movement in the Yemeni legitimacy to obtain military support from Ankara in the wake of the confrontations in Aden in August 2019, which ended with the Southern Transitional Council taking control of the city.
At the time, it pointed out that the request focused on techniques aimed at neutralizing the Arab coalition aviation, which the Brotherhood accused of bombing the "National Army" and the Brotherhood groups in the August confrontations and obstructing the advance of those forces towards the temporary capital.
A leaked recording of the Brotherhood’s military leader in Taiz, Abdo al-Mikhlafi, known as “Salem” revealed that the Popular Mobilization Forces and the army forces under the authority of the Brotherhood had received promises from Turkey to provide weapons and vehicles, according to what came in the recording in which “Salem” attacked the Arab coalition and mocked the way he dealt with the attacks of the Houthis.
