Yemen and the U.S. intervention

Weird is that the Yemeni gov­ern­ment reject the west­ern pres­sures to resolve its cri­sis inter­nal and hold talks with the oppo­si­tion, at the same time offered to hold con­di­tional talks with Al-Qaeda. The Yemeni army killed Al-Qaeda leader Abdul­lah Al-Mehdar.

Al-Mehdar is a mem­ber of the one of rich­est fam­i­lies in South-Yemen — Hab­ban area. the fam­ily (or tribe) have many busi­nesses in Saudi Arabia.

Amer­i­can writ­ers and blog­gers have a prob­lem to under­stand why Zan­dani opin­ion mat­ters, and why his state­ment is directly reported by the news agencies.

Zan­dani is the most pow­er­ful cleric in Yemen, back to the Russ­ian inva­sion of Afghanistan, the Amer­i­cans needed Arab vol­un­teers to fight the Russ­ian their. Yemen was the recruit­ment base and Zan­dani was their man. The man built his rep­u­ta­tion (and his Al-Iman reli­gious uni­ver­sity) from reqruit­ing cen­ter spread around Yemen till the end of war in Bosnia.

Yemeni writer Abdul Al-Karim Salam saysthat the most feared in the con­flict in Yemen is the tribes par­tic­i­pa­tion. The fight against Al-Qaeda in the remote tribal areas which are pre­dom­i­nated by a social tribal struc­ture the tribes tribal, very sen­si­tive to the west­ern involve­ment against Arab and Islamic issues.

Another Yemeni writer Muham­mad Al-Mukhlafi warns against the U.S. involve­ment in Yemen say­ing that it will be used by Ali Abdul­lah Salih to achieve the following:

There are indi­ca­tions show that exter­nal inter­ven­tion in a direct war against ter­ror­ism in Yemen is not con­fined to the United States and Saudi Ara­bia, but it will include the Euro­pean alliance also, which will put Yemen in sit­u­a­tion sim­i­lar to Afghanistan.

- The war will be used by the gov­ern­ment as a power source of its legitimacy.

- The regime will use the inter­ven­tion to can­cel all the pre­vi­ous dia­logues and agree­ments with the opposition.

The North front

This is very embar­rass­ing, for the sec­ond time, Saudi Ara­bia claims they man­aged to retake the bor­der Al-Jabiri vil­lage and mil­i­tary base, while Houthis denied these claims.

There is one inter­est­ing answer, con­cerns Saudi Ara­bia in this inter­view on Almasry-Alyoum

- About the Saudi involve­ment in the war

- The Saudi inter­ven­tion came because of the strug­gle among the Saudi Royal princes on lead­er­ship, min­istries and wealth, as well as it came save Ali Abdul­lah Saleh at the time when he wanted to declare that the war is lost