Yemen without Zakaria al-Shami ... the killing of the Houthi spy and the godfather of ruin
English - Tuesday 23 March 2021 الساعة 01:34 pm
NewsYemen, Al Ain News:
Major General Zakaria al-Shami died of his wounds and the "Corona" virus, after years of betrayal and employment to the Houthis, and the leadership of the process of destroying Yemen.
Al-Ain al-Akhbariya learned from security sources in Sana'a that Zakaria al-Shami (49 years) was wounded in a qualitative military operation, believed to be airborne, and was transferred to a hospital for medical care under strict security measures.
And the sources added, "The man's condition deteriorated after he was infected with the Coronavirus in the hospital, which is spreading like wildfire, especially in hospitals, due to the overcrowding of the sick and injured, and the militia's failure to take any health precautions."
The sources added, "Al-Shami breathed his last in the hospital yesterday," but did not rule out the liquidation of the Saada wing in the Houthi group, which is strongly supported by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer Hassan Erlo, to Al-Shami, taking advantage of the illness of his father, Yahya, to whom the virus was transmitted and his condition also became critical.
Since the Houthi rolled from Saada to Sana'a, Zakaria al-Shami has played the role of the militia’s biggest spy within state institutions in the kidnapped Yemeni capital.
Zakaria not only committed the crime of high treason, but he and his father acted as a poisoned dagger in the back of the Yemeni army, which went beyond the leakage of secrets to the dismantling of the brigades according to an Iranian plan and with the blessing of the Brotherhood.
After the confirmation of Zakaria's death of his injury, mystery surrounds the fate of his father, the most dangerous shadow man, whose death could constitute one of the most fatal blows to the top military leaders in the closed Houthi circle.
And last year, the Houthi wings' struggles intensified, as the father and his son form the pyramid of power in the Sana'a wing, which the Saada wing, which is the most extremist and adherent to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, seeks to remove, because of the control of the Shami family over more than 28 positions, the most important of which are intelligence, transport and media.
Al-Shami comes from the Al-Sada District in the Governorate of Ab (central Yemen).
And recently, after his fierce struggle with the Saada wing, he headed for a bloc with the rest of the Hashemite families in the so-called "Sana'a Wing" within the Houthi militia.
Spy Officer
Zakaria is considered one of the most prominent leaders of the Houthi underground militia, which has promoted positions within the Yemeni army from an early age, and he is the son of one of the founders of the group and its military wing within state institutions before the rebellion in the Saada mountains.
Zakaria, born in 1972, graduated from the Military College in Sanaa at the age of 21 and included in several military positions until 2010, after his return from Malaysia after studying foreign languages, before he obtained a master's degree in military science from Sudan.
Zakaria's name appeared in several Yemeni security reports during the militia's fighting the six wars of the Saada rebellion, and his work with his father, Major General Yahya al-Shami, who was the governor of Saada governorate, was considered the chief spy for the Houthis commissioned by his father, the military commander of the Hashemite dynasty at the time.
Zakaria informed Houthi leaders of all the Yemeni army's moves against them in the first and second wars, the impact of the leak of confidential information to the militia from inside the military operations room and it remained a mystery to the Yemeni leadership.
According to Yemeni reports, the leadership of the Yemeni army resorted to monitoring the movements of all the companions of the Levantine governor and the surrounding circle, headed by his son.
At the time, Yemeni intelligence revealed that Zakaria al-Shami communicated with a number of Houthi leaders, including the military commander and the personal protection official for the militia leader, called Abu Jihad al-Ayani, as well as with al-Suri, Taha al-Madani, responsible for the security file and the most dangerous man within the hierarchical structure, who was killed in an air strike by the coalition in early June. 2015.
As a result of this information, al-Shami, the father, was removed from his post and transferred to Sana'a, but no penalties were imposed against him, while al-Shami the son returned to the central regions of the Ibb governorate, his father’s hometown, to continue working and secretly supervising the Houthi militia.
Dismantling the army brigades
Zakaria was intensively active secretly in forming and training Houthi military cells before returning to the forefront of the Yemeni scene as a representative of the militia when Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi took over the presidency of the country, who appointed him deputy chief of staff of the Yemeni army, while his father was the head of the army and security team in the National Dialogue Conference.
Al-Shami, the father and son, worked on the careful dismantling of the Yemeni army according to a plan drawn up by Iran, by overthrowing the capable military leaders and replacing them with new leaders, claiming that they belonged to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, so that the Houthis and the Brotherhood would share the most important posts of the Ministry of Defense at the time.
After the Houthi coup, and President Hadi's request for the intervention of the Arab coalition, Major General Zakaria and his father, Lieutenant General Yahya, were the most prominent and influential militia leaders and present in the Yemeni army for their long time in the armed forces.
Al-Shami was a member of the so-called Houthi Supreme Military Security Committee, which includes senior leaders of the closed circle of the terrorist organization, and then he was appointed in the coup government as Minister of Transport in 2016.
For 5 years, Zakaria has been practicing his military activities by supervising all military activities that take place through the ports under the control of the Houthi militia, especially the port of Hodeidah, and he is considered one of the cell smuggling of Iranian weapons, cutting drones and ballistic missiles.
While he was in the hierarchy of the militia's high command, Zakaria had military and field activities for the benefit of the Houthis as a military expert in several areas, including training, information systems, thunderbolt and special forces.
It also turned Sanaa airport into a huge den for reconstructing and booby-trapping aircraft and using it as a platform for terrorism and a gateway to blackmail the international community.
