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Yemen’s Ansarullah calls for mobilization against former president’s loyalists
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Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has called for a general mobilization against forces loyal to the country’s fugitive former president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
In a statement, Ansarullah also known as Houthi fighters described their offensive against military institutions loyal to Hadi as a battle against extremists. The appeal came after Hadi gave a defiant speech challenging the Houthis. He called the movement’s rule in Sana’a and elsewhere a coup against constitutional legitimacy. It was his first televised speech since he fled the capital Sana’a to the port city of Aden in February. Ansarullah movement gained control of Sana’a last summer after mass anti-government protests erupted countrywide against corruption among the government officials.
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Yemen’s
Shiite rebels issued a call to arms too, to battle forces loyal to the
country’s embattled president, as U.S. troops were evacuating a southern
air base crucial to America’s drone strike program after al-Qaida
militants seized a nearby city.
The turmoil comes as Yemen
battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the target of the drone
program, and faces a purported affiliate of the extremist Islamic State
group that claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings
killing at least 137 people Friday.
All these factors could push the Arab world’s most impoverished country, united only in the 1990s, back toward civil war.
“I
hate to say this, but I’m hearing the loud and clear beating of the
drums of war in Yemen,” Mohammed al-Basha, a spokesman for the Yemeni
Embassy in Washington, D.C., wrote on Twitter.
The Shiite rebels,
known as Houthis, swept into Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September and
now control it and nine of the country’s 21 provinces. President Abed
Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a one-time prisoner of the Houthis in his own home,
escaped last month and installed himself in Aden, declaring it the
temporary capital amid the Houthi insurrection.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/03/yemens-ansarullah-calls-for.html
