An intelligence report reveals the hidden links between Al-Houthi and "Al Qaeda and ISIS" - photos

English - Wednesday 31 March 2021 الساعة 07:20 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:

On Wednesday, the Yemeni mission to the United Nations delivered a government report prepared by the Yemeni intelligence services (the Political Security Service and the National Security Agency) to the President of the UN Security Council, US Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield, confirming the relationship and cooperation between the Houthi militia, ISIS and Al Qaeda.


The report - seen by NewsYemen - revealed that the Houthi militia had released 252 prisoners from Al-Qaeda members, as well as one of the planners of the attack on the USS Cole, noting that the Houthi operations on Al-Qaeda in Yemen were mock operations, and that 55 of the elements  Al Qaeda in Sanaa under the auspices of the Houthis.

The Houthis ’release, during 2018, confirmed the terrorist Jamal Muhammad al-Badawi, one of the most prominent masterminds in the bombing of the USS Cole, and the terrorist Sami Fadl Dayan, accused of planning the assassination of the martyr Major General Salem Qatan and the terrorist Mayad al-Hammadi, from the Sabeen bombing cell (21  / 5/2012) and the terrorist Maher Al-Rumim and the terrorist Saddam Ali Al-Hamiri (Abu Al-Fida).

He said that many of the released terrorist elements were sent by the Houthi militia to the liberated governorates to carry out terrorist operations there.

The report confirmed that the Al-Qaeda operatives who had earlier claimed by the Houthi militia to be in the legitimate areas and to support the National Army in Marib, had a relationship with it, coordination and partnership with it, and were in political security prisons and convicted of terrorist cases, so it released them and pushed some of them to carry out terrorist acts within the scope of legitimacy and some of them were arrested.


The report states: “Despite the Houthi militia’s claim to fight terrorist elements (Al-Qaeda and ISIS), and through the sources and follow-up of the Political Security and National Security agencies, it was found that many leaders and terrorist elements are present in the areas controlled by the Houthi militia."

Among the most prominent of these, according to the report, is the terrorist Arif Majali, the leader of the Arhab cell, who became a senior leader in the Houthi militia, who carried out the mobilization process and actively participated in most militia battles, known as the supervisor, Sheikh Arif Majali.

Also the terrorist Ali al-Kindi, nicknamed (Abu Israel), a former leader in al-Qaeda and now a leader who works with the Houthi militia and is the coordinator between ISIS and the Houthis, in addition to the terrorist Tariq al-Hadrami, whose real name is Hisham Bawazir, who was in Sanaa, and also the terrorist Abdulaziz Salem al-Dini, and he was arrested  In Marib on (11/13/2020).

He pointed out that the terrorist operations of Al-Qaeda and ISIS were carried out in the liberated governorates, while no terrorist operations were carried out in the areas controlled by the Houthi militia, despite the large presence of terrorist elements affiliated with Al-Qaeda and ISIS in those areas.


The report emphasized that the Yemeni intelligence services monitored the Houthi militia’s implementation of a mock operation against Al-Qaeda, and it did not carry out any real military operation against the organization in Qifah in Al-Bayda governorate, explaining that what happened was a receipt and delivery of those areas based on understandings between the two parties.

He explained that Al-Qaeda evacuated several areas and handed them over to the Houthis to circumvent the army, and that ISIS elements fought in the ranks of the Houthis, and that the National Army captured al-Qaeda members who fought with the Houthis.

He stressed that this Houthi relationship with terrorist organizations has reached the point of joint coordination and the exchange of roles that threaten the security, stability and unity of Yemen and its regional surroundings, and international shipping lines, in a way that requires the international community that raises the flag of the war on terror to assume its responsibilities to support the legitimate government in confronting these Houthi militias and terrorist organizations.  Other.


 He noted that the Houthi militias deliberately mislead by spreading illusory information about civilian sites that have nothing to do with al-Qaeda, determining their coordinates and claiming that these sites are strongholds of al-Qaeda, and among these sites is the school (Al-Farouq School) in Karri district in the governorate of Marib, in which about (1000) students study in both periods.  Morning and evening.

He added, "As soon as they took control of those areas, the militias began to complete the killing, looting, pillage, and bombing of homes, violating human rights, children's rights and women's rights, and causing a large wave of displacement of residents and people from those areas."

The report, which consists of 26 pages, supported by tables and pictures, called on the international community to adopt the classification of the Houthi militia on the list of terrorism.