MORE HOUTHIS KILLED, WOUNDED IN SAADA AND SUFYAN

SAADA,Jan.09(Saba)- Security units have destroyed strongholds of
insurgents near Al-Khazan mountain and Thoaeb triangle in
al-Malaheth district, Saada province, causing them a huge loss in
souls and equipments, the state-run almotamar.net has reported.

Many rebels were reportedly killed and some guns destroyed on a car
targeted by the security forces that could cut the road in the area
where the rebels get supplies and weapons through.

The security forces could also snipe three terrorist rebels who were
stationing in a farm in Mahdha area in Saada.

Moreover, the military and security units launched painful strikes
against the sabotage and insurgency elements in Saada, which led to
the killing of five rebels and injuring others and razing a number
of their hideouts.

The units foiled many infiltration attempts into the Samae Mountain
by the rebels and killed four of them.

Local sources affirmed to almotamar.net that the army units
destroyed a number of hideouts of the rebels in al-Mahather ,al-Talh
,Bani al-Anad areas ,killing and injuring a number of insurgents.

In Sufyan area, the armed and security forces waged painful assaults
on the rebels and paralyzed their move on the road to Jawf province.
They frustrated the rebels' infiltration attempts near al-Barak
knoll and forced them to flee, causing them a big loss in
equipments.

The local sources said that the rebel elements are suffering a mess
and a huge scatter amid their rows because of the multi-leaders and
the variety sources of decisions after absence of their current
leader, Abul-Malik al-Houthi, who let the leadership to his
brother-in-law, al -Madani ,despite of his minor age.

A number of those leaders and elements started to take over their
weapons and go back to their villages refusing fighting after
feeling the defeat and the near end, the resources added.

The Houthi rebels have been launching sporadic wars against the
troops since then.

Since the fighting erupted in 2004, thousands of people, soldiers
and insurgents have been killed in Saada, which lies close to border
with Saudi Arabia, after the rebel group was founded by Shiite 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
reinstall the rule of imams, which was toppled by a republican
revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.

BA