organization:yemen government

#wikileaks: WHO ARE THE HOUTHIS, PART TWO: HOW ARE THEY FIGHTING?, 2009 December
▻https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09SANAA2186_a.html#efmAB-ACz

WEAPONS SUPPLY
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12. (S/NF) Contrary to ROYG [Republic of Yemen Government] claims that Iran is arming the Houthis, most local political analysts report that the Houthis obtain their weapons from the Yemeni black market and even from the ROYG military itself. According to a British diplomat, there are numerous credible reports that ROYG military commanders were selling weapons to the Houthis in the run-up to the Sixth War. An ICG report on the Sa’ada conflict from May 2009 quoted NSB director Ali Mohammed al-Ansi saying, “Iranians are not arming the Houthis. The weapons they use are Yemeni. Most actually come from fighters who fought against the socialists during the 1994 war and then sold them.” Mohammed Azzan, presidential advisor for Sa’ada affairs, told PolOff on August 16 that the Houthis easily obtain weapons inside Yemen, either from battlefield captures or by buying them from corrupt military commanders and soldiers. Azzan said that the military “covers up its failure” by saying the weapons come from Iran. According to Jamal Abdullah al-Shami of the Democracy School, there is little external oversight of the military’s large and increasing budget, so it is easy for members of the military to illegally sell weapons.

13. (S/NF) ROYG officials assert that the Houthis’ possession and use of Katyusha rockets is evidence of support from Iran and Hizballah, arguing that these rockets are not available in Yemeni arms markets nor ROYG stockpiles. (Comment: Given Yemen’s robust arms markets, especially in Sa’ada, it is possible that Katyushas are available on the black market even if they are not in ROYG stockpiles. According to sensitive reporting, there is at least one instance of Somali extremists purchasing Katyusha rockets in Yemen in 2007. End Comment.) However, according to sensitive reporting, it may have been the ROYG military who aided the Houthis in obtaining a shipment of 200 Katyusha rockets in late November 2009.

#cablegate (via Angry Arab)

U.S. embassy: What #Houthis are fighting for
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2015/01/us-embassy-what-houthis-are-fighting-for.html
▻https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09SANAA2185_a.html

“Over the past 20 years, #Zaydis -) who have historically made up the majority of the governorate’s population )- have felt increasingly threatened by the radical Sunni Salafism exported from Saudi Arabia (ref b).”

U.S. embassy: How Houthis obtain their weapons
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2015/01/us-embassy-how-houthis-obtain-their.html
▻https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09SANAA2186_a.html

"Contrary to ROYG [Republic of #Yemen Government] claims that Iran is arming the Houthis, most local political analysts report that the Houthis obtain their weapons from the Yemeni black market and even from the ROYG military itself. According to a British diplomat, there are numerous credible reports that ROYG military commanders were selling weapons to the Houthis in the run-up to the Sixth War. An ICG report on the Sa’ada conflict from May 2009 quoted NSB [National Security Bureau] director Ali Mohammed al-Ansi saying, “Iranians are not arming the Houthis. The weapons they use are Yemeni. Most actually come from fighters who fought against the socialists during the 1994 war and then sold them.” Mohammed Azzan, presidential advisor for Sa’ada affairs, told PolOff on August 16 that the Houthis easily obtain weapons inside Yemen, either from battlefield captures or by buying them from corrupt military commanders and soldiers. Azzan said that the military “covers up its failure” by saying the weapons come from #Iran."

#salafisme #salafistes #Saoud #Arabie_Saoudite

RAF pilots carried out secret raids in Yemen - Telegraph
►http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/8571133/RAF-pilots-carried-out-secret-raids-in-Yemen.html

The Yemen government had always claimed without any proof that secret attacks were made against it by RAF and Royal Navy aircraft while Oman, with help from the SAS, fought a vicious counter insurgency campaign.

But for the first time the RAF pilots who served under the Sultan have spoken about their role in flying cross-border raids into Yemen territory without authorisation from London.

The first mission happened in 1972 when a fort inside Yemen was attacked by five Strikemaster jets armed with 500lbs bombs following a border incursion in the Dhofar area.

Il aura donc fallu quarante ans pour que nous apprenions qu’encore une autre de ces « théories du complot » typiquement arabes était, hum, parfaitement vraie.