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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