Yemen defence minister to resume duties after fleeing Sanaa

AFP via Ahram Online ^ | Sunday 8 Mar 2015

[piasa]

Yemen's defence minister was set to resume his duties from second city Aden on Sunday after defecting from Shiite militia who control the capital, a source in the president's office said.

General Mahmud Subaihi's escape from Sanaa follows that of Western-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has called on ministers to join him in the southern port city to reestablish the government if they can.

The minister made it safely to Aden but one of his guards was killed in a firefight with Huthi militiamen during the escape, an aide told AFP.

The militia had named Subaihi head of a new security committee when they completed their seizure of power in Sanaa in February.

The government in which he served tendered its resignation under militia pressure in January but it was never accepted by Hadi.

Prime minister Khalid Bahah and most other ministers remain under house arrest in the capital.

Subaihi's convoy made it to Aden without incident, arriving before dawn, his aide said.

One of his guards, who was travelling in a second convoy which left an hour later, was killed when it was ambushed by the Huthis near the central city of Taez.

The militiamen captured another five people travelling in the second convoy but later released them under pressure from local tribes, the aide added.

Hadi, who tendered his resignation in January, withdrew it after escaping to Aden last month saying it had been offered under militia duress.

The city, which was the capital of an independent south Yemen before its union with the north in 1990, is largely in the hands of troops and militia loyal to the president.

Hadi said on Saturday that he now regards it as the capital of the united country because of the militia's grip on Sanaa.

[piasa]

Houthis kill 6 guards of Yemen defense minister
According to the sources,the Houthi groups attacked the convoy of the minister in Khokha as he was on his way to Aden. Six guards were killed and another was injured in the attack

World Bulletin / News Desk http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/156263/houthis-kill-6-guards-of-yemen-defense-minister

Six guards of resigned Defense Minister Mahmoud al-Subaihi were killed in an ambush by Houthi groups on Sunday as he fled the group’s grip in Sanaa and fled to southern Aden city, reliable sources said.

According to the sources, who asked to remain anonymous, the Houthi groups attacked the convoy of the minister in Khokha region in Al-Hudaydah province as he was on his way to Aden.

Six guards were killed and another was injured in the attack, the sources told, noting that the bodies of the slain guards have arrived to al-Subaihi’s hometown in Subeiha region in the southern Lahij province.

A government source had told earlier that armed groups affiliated with the powerful Houthi movement kidnapped five of the minister’s guards and injured another.

Al-Subaihi arrived in Aden earlier Sunday after fleeing capital Sanaa, according to high-ranking sources.

The sources, however, did not clarify how al-Subaihi managed to flee Sanaa.

Al-Subaihi’s arrival in Aden is expected to boost embattled President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi’s efforts to reinstate his rule from Aden.

[BeauBo]

Looks like we are back to separate North and South Yemen’s for a while...

[piasa]

Yemen Houthis take over U.S.-trained special forces base in Sanaa , 25 February 2015 Wednesday

http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/155704/yemen-houthis-take-over-us-trained-special-forces-base-in-sanaa

[piasa]

Yep

[thackney]

The North, once control settles down, will not allow the South to keep oil and gas revenue.

[thackney]

The North, once control settles down, will not allow the South to keep oil and gas revenue.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Iranian missile strikes close OPEC’s sealanes, but our top story is, ethanol bad, me not like ethanol.

[expat2]

Yes, Shi’ia North and Sunni South.

[Straight Vermonter]

Looks like we are back to separate North and South Yemen’s for a while...

People don't understand that just about everything going on in the middle east is a civil war between Shia and Sunni. We can look at AQ, the Houthis or ISIS as anti-Western or whatever but they understand their motivations very differently.

[Biggirl]

Meaning a possible breakup is coming.

[Lurker]

Ethanol is fine. What isn’t is government subsidizing it. There’s no Constitutional authorization for it. Period.

L

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, that’s much more important than repeal of Obamacare, and improving national defense, under which category control of our borders falls.

[Lurker]

It’s all important. But one must start somewhere. So I’m fine with killing off Ag subsidies as one of the first items.

[gleeaikin]

At another FR thread it was reported that these Houthis are allied with the Iranian forces and General Sulemanei who is leading them in the attempt to retake Kirkuk, Iraq.