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Yemen update 10/03\2015.. fugitive Mansour Hadi plans to return to Saudi Arabia and not Aden
Protest against Saudi led airstrikes in Yemen
Pro Hadi forces took control of Aden Highway in Yemen
Source: Yemen’s Mansour Hadi Not Returning to Aden
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940711001539
Yemen’s former president, fugitive Mansour Hadi, plans to return to Saudi Arabia, and not Aden, at the end of visit to New York where he took part in the 70th UN General Assembly.
“Hadi will arrive in Riyadh after wrapping up his visit to New York,” the London-based Arabic-language al-Arabi Al-Jadid quoted a source close to Hadi as saying on Saturday.
The newspaper’s report came as some pro-Saudi sources had previously claimed that the fugitive Yemeni president would return to Aden.
The newspaper further quoted the source as saying that Hadi will have a long stay in Saudi Arabia.
Hadi who fled Yemen six months ago and sought shelter in Saudi Arabia came back to Yemen’s Southern port city of Aden for two days before departing for New York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting, an action seen by many analysts as a symbolic move with no specific strategic value.
In mid-August, a senior Ansarullah leader renewed the revolutionary movement’s strong opposition to the presence of fugitive Yemeni President Mansour Hadi in the political future of Yemen.
“This movement will never allow the fugitive and treacherous Yemeni president to play any role in the future of Yemen,” member of Ansarullah Political Council Ali Hashem al-Houthi told FNA.
He underlined that the pro-Hadi militias have waged a war in Southern Yemen in line with the Saudi regime’s objectives.
Al-Houthi called on all Yemeni political parties to put aside their differences and prepare themselves to confront the Saudi aggressors.
The clashes between the Ansarullah fighters and the Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terrorists as well as the pro-Hadi militias continue in the Southern parts of the country as
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 192 days now to restore power to Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 6,433 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
Saudi led coalition hits a gas station in Sana’a
Saudi-Led Coalition Troops Crushed in Battle Near Bab Al-Mandab
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940711001101
The Saudi-led coalition forces sustained heavy casualties in fierce battle with the Yemeni army and Ansarullah forces in an area near Bab al-Mandab strait and retreated from the region.
The Saudi-led forces launched an offensive on Ansarullah positions near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait on Friday but were repelled after sustaining heavy casualties in the Yemeni forces’ counteroffensive.
The latest reports said the Saudi-led coalition forces have been pounding Ansarullah and Yemeni army positions in the region with massive missile and air strikes ever since the retreat.
The Yemeni and Ansarullah forces also shot down a Saudi helicopter and drone in the Western parts of the country.
In a relevant development on Friday, a military source said that at least 55 troops of the Saudi-led coalition were killed or wounded in the Yemeni army’s operations in the province of Ma’rib.
The military source said that, in addition to the killing and wounding of nearly 55 soldiers of the Saudi army and its allies by the Yemeni army, over eight military and 5 armored vehicles of the Saudi-led coalition were destroyed in the vicinity Al-Balaq, Thaat Al-Ra’ and Marbat Al-Dam in Ma’rib during the past few hours.
On Monday, Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters conducted retaliatory attacks on Saudi positions in the region of Jizan.
The Yemeni forces fired a barrage of rockets at a military base in the Saudi region of Jizan.
Three Saudi armored vehicles were also destroyed in another attack in Jizan.
Meanwhile, reports said that the Yemenis had killed and injured dozens of pro-Saudi militants, and destroyed ten vehicles belonging to them in the province of Ma’rib.
U.S. Sits Quietly As Saudi Arabia Blocks UN Human Rights Inquiry Into Yemen
Heavy Clashes On The Saudi Border As Houthi Rebels Attack Saudi Military
Bab el-Mandeb in Houthis’ control: Yemeni official
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/03/431835/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-Babelmandeb-Lahij
A Yemeni official has denied reports suggesting that loyalists to former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, backed by Saudi Arabia, have captured the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Houthi Ansarullah fighters.
According to a report by the Lebanese al-Mayadeen news network on Saturday, an unnamed Yemeni official said that the Hadi loyalists had only reached the Khor Omaira area and not the strategic strait.
The reports added that the Yemeni army forces and allied popular committees had foiled attacks by Saudi-backed forces launched from Lahij Province’s al-Sabiha district against Bab el-Mandeb.
Tens of Saudi-backed forces were reportedly killed and wounded in the confrontation.
This comes shortly after Turkish news sources cited a former fugitive Yemeni official as claiming that Saudi army troops and the supporters of Hadi had established control over Bab el-Mandeb and Mayoun Island.
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is considered strategically important as it separates the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa and links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/10/yemen-update-10032015-fugitive-mansour.html
