SECURITY OFFICIAL SAYS 12 REBELS SEIZED IN OLD SAADA CITY

SAADA.OCT.06 (Saba) - Undersecretary of Interior Ministry Major
Mohammed al-Qawsi announced last Monday that the security bodies in
the old Saada city arrested 12 rebels within a terrorist cell which
targets security and stability of the province.

On another hand, a military source told Saba that the armed and
security forces destroyed two workshops of terrorists, located at
Oreig mountain between Saqeen and Hidan areas, were used for fitting
mines and bombs as well as some rebels' accouterments in al-Malahidh
area .

The source added that armed and security forces is continuing
chasing the rebels to uproot them in Sufyan, Saada, and al-Malahidh
areas and thwarting those elements' attempts to slip into some farms
and houses of citizens for using them as shields to carry out
terrorist acts against citizens and soldiers .

The armed and security forces attacked a vehicle of the field
rebels' leader Roh-Allah al-Qutabri in Al Salem area destroying one
of the rebels' dens in the area wherein several rebels were killed
and other injured, the source made it clear.

On their constant victory, the military forces targeted a special
den of the terrorist Ali Abdullah Bakhtan, killing four rebels and
razing a car and a 12.7-machine gun.

The source drew attention that special military units pulled out the
mines and explosives planted by the rebel elements in the roads.

Furthermore, the source mentioned that the military forces found a
big quantity of amassed armaments and explosives, cassettes, CDs and
papers which the rebel elements left behind after their fleeing from
the areas that the armed and security forces mopped up .

Al- Houthi rebels have been launching intermittent wars against the
troops since 2004.

Since the fighting erupted in 2004, thousands of people, soldiers
and insurgents have been killed in Saada province, which located
close to border with Saudi Arabia, after the rebel group was founded
by rebel leader Hussein al- Houthi.

Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik,
was killed by the army in September 2004.

The Yemeni government accuses the Houthi group of trying to
reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican
revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.

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