OFFICIAL DENIES SAUDI FORCES PARTICIPATION IN SA'ADA WAR

SANA'A, Oct. 20 (Saba) - An official source denied the claims of
Houthi rebels that Saudi armed forces have stricken al-Hasamah Souk,
the military-run 26sep.net has reported.

The source affirmed that such claims are baseless, saying that the
rebels are used to propagate fake news to plunge brothers in Saudi
Arabia in the confrontations in Sa'ada, where the heroes of the
armed and security forces supported by the Yemeni people are
defeating and hunting Houthi rebels all over.

On the other hand, security authorities have apprehended two rebels
came from Sa'ada looking for a person in Hais area of Hodeidah,
Interior Ministry reported on Tuesday

One of the arrested was carrying papers prompting people for jihad
against security forces, papers like those seized with rebels in
Sa'ada. The second man has been arrested with about YR 150,000.

The two persons are interrogated currently, while the security
bodies are tracking the person the two men were looking for in
Hodeidah.

In a related context, security authorities in Sana'a capital held
eight people, from Saada and Amran provinces, suspected to have
links with Houthi insurgence.

One of them, 25, has been arrested in al-Sabeen direct with Houthi
documents and publications. All the arrested are questioning now.

Noteworthy, security troops are continuing their progress against
the rebels, killing and arresting tens of them.

Several quantities of ammunitions and explosives have been captured
by the troops in Saada.

Since the fighting erupted in 2004, thousands of people, soldiers
and insurgents have been killed in Saada province and Harf Sufian in
Amran province, 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 al-Houthi group of trying to
re-install the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican
revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.

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