How did the Houthi use the "female" spy cell for the fighting against Marib?
English - Wednesday 24 February 2021 الساعة 08:22 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Special Report:
At the end of last January, official security sources announced the arrest of an eight-woman Houthi spy cell in the city of Marib, as part of thwarting repeated Houthi attempts by spy cells working for the militias.
Meanwhile, the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, rushed to launch a counter-media campaign, claiming that the eight women had been kidnapped by the authority in Marib and handed over to Saudi Arabia.
Later, the militia used its campaign as a justification for launching a major military attack on Marib, before adopting new media and political speeches about the reasons and justifications for its attempts to control the oil and gas-rich governorate and the border with Saudi Arabia.
The militia mobilized its media outlets, leaders and activists on social media to use the women's cell as an excuse for the military rally in Marib, and television and radio programs were allocated to it, and it produced zamil and linked it to notions of tribal shame and the violation of honor and tribal norms, until the militias' allegations reached the claim that their position necessitated that The call of the families of these women answered, just as Caliph Al-Mu'tasim answered the call of the Arab woman who screamed (and gathered him).
According to tribal sources who spoke to NewsYemen, the Houthi militia’s campaign about the abduction of women and their intensified allegations contributed to some extent to the mobilization of a good number of tribesmen in the governorates of Sana'a, Hajjah, Amran and Al-Mahwit, especially from those remote villages far from all manifestations of media contact with the world and exploiting their ignorance in Mobilize fighters and send them to the Marib front.
And soon the effect of that campaign related to revenge for the women's cell ended, after the militia suffered severe losses in the fighters in the midst of the battles of Ma'rib, as most of their recruiting and gathering from the tribes returned either dead or wounded, to be employed in the fighting mobilization again, but it did not receive a response.
Allegations of the existence of al-Qaeda and ISIS.
As a result, the Houthi fighting campaign against Marib took another turn, which was the publication of allegations and allegations that America, Israel and the Arab coalition had pushed fighters affiliated with ISIS and al-Qaeda to fight against it on the fronts of the governorate.
The Houthi militia has resorted to spreading rumors among citizens in its areas of influence about the presence of Al Qaeda and ISIS fighters in Marib, in parallel with their fear of the repercussions of the failure of its campaign to control the governorate, including the arrival of ISIS and Al Qaeda fighters to Sanaa and the violations they will practice against women, as happened in Iraq. According to her allegations.
Sanaa in the crisis of derivatives to mobilize combat against Marib.
And because the disinformation campaigns adopted by the militias to justify and mobilize fighters to support their battle in Marib through the allegations of the presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda fighters did not bear fruit, as the Houthi leaders had planned for this, they hastened to adopt a new discourse in line with mobilization plans that went beyond meeting with tribal sheikhs this time into a crowd. All leaders and employees of state institutions, political leaders, social figures, sheikhs, and the minds of the neighborhoods, and everyone who has ties to or associated with the citizens, and asked them to mobilize and send fighters to the Marib front.
The new militias' allegations included talk about the presence of invaders and occupiers from the coalition and the Americans conducting the battles of the legitimate forces in Marib, in addition to talking about the coalition and Marib authorities looting the oil and gas wealth, and the claim that the fuel and domestic gas crises in Sanaa and the rest of the Houthi areas are caused by the continued control of the coalition and legitimacy over Marib and its wealth, and that its liberation will contribute to ending these crises and providing oil, gas and electricity to the citizens in the capital, Sanaa, and all areas under the militia’s control.
Parallel to these allegations, the Houthi militia sought to lift the severity of the oil derivatives crisis, as it no longer pumps gasoline to only two stations in Sana'a, one of which is for women’s cars, which contributed to the increase in the number of cars whose owners spend more than two days until they can fill thirty liters. For their cars, while raising the price of domestic gas cylinders, as well as the price of gas sold for vehicles.
Analysts believe that the Houthi militia will use every means it can, and will publish all the allegations, allegations and lies that it can publish to justify its military attack on Marib Governorate, which did not achieve the militia’s objectives in controlling the city, let alone controlling areas of oil and gas installations. In the governorate, which is the main goal pursued by the militias since before their coup and their control of state institutions on September 21, 2014.
