Escalation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Abyan with support from Al Qaeda and Houthi’s support for Al-Maysari’s call to storm Aden
English - Wednesday 07 April 2021 الساعة 05:40 pm
Abyan, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The legitimate forces affiliated with the Brotherhood have escalated militarily in Abyan Governorate, during the past two days, months after the fighting in the governorate stopped in implementation of the Riyadh Agreement.
Last Monday, the news of Al-Marashah area in the Khanfar district witnessed clashes between the legitimate forces loyal to the Brotherhood on one side and the security belt forces and the tribes of the region on the other hand.
The clashes erupted after the Security Belt Forces and the tribes of the region responded to a military campaign by the Special Forces led by Brigadier General Muhammad Al-Auban and the Director of Security of the Governorate Ali Al-Deeb Al-Kazami, and tried to advance across the coastline from Shakra city to Ahwar.
The Belt Forces and the tribes of the region succeeded in confronting and besieging the campaign in the village of Husn Shaddad after the killing of a Special Forces officer, who is the brother of its commander, Muhammad al-'Awban.
These clashes are the first in the governorate since the fighting stopped in December of last year, in implementation of the Riyadh agreement and under the supervision of a Saudi military committee, which separated the lines of contact between the forces affiliated with the Brotherhood and the transitional forces by deploying forces from the Giants Brigades.
The Giants Brigades intervened, on its part, to stop the escalation and tension in the news area, and succeeded in reaching an agreement to withdraw the military campaign in exchange for lifting the siege on it and facilitating its withdrawal by the Security Belt Forces and members of the tribes.
This mediation did not last more than 24 hours, as the forces loyal to the Brotherhood resumed their attack on the area, according to the spokesman for the transitional forces in Abyan Muhammad al-Naqib, who reported late Tuesday evening that the Security Belt forces and the Southern Resistance in the Khobar Al-Marasha area responded to a second attack by the Brotherhood militia.
Adding that the Brotherhood militia refused to abide by the provisions of the mediation committee and “returned to mobilize its members and its mechanisms and resume its attack” on the region. The captain said that the Brotherhood militia “met with a deterrent response that resulted in the destruction of its mechanisms,” he said.
Al-Naqib pointed out that the attack by the Muslim Brotherhood militia and changing its stance towards adhering to the terms of the mediation committee agreement came after the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization announced its endorsement of the attack on the coalition forces in Balhaf, considering that “it reveals that Al-Qaeda and the Brotherhood militias are run from a single operating room.”
The sudden Brotherhood escalation in Abyan came just two days after the remarkable tweet of the Houthi leader, Hussein Al-Ezzi, who is the deputy foreign minister in the Houthi government, in which he indicated the existence of what he described as "disturbing movements in Abyan," and said that "the information coming from there is very dangerous." .
He added that these movements "warn of events that may be unprecedented and may remove some forces from Aden in particular," in a clear reference to the statements of former Interior Minister Ahmed Al-Maysari to the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel last Wednesday in which he called on the legitimate forces to storm Aden and said that the battle has become with the coalition from Mahra to Bab al-Mandab.
The speech of the Houthi leader, Hussein Al-Ezzi, was referred to by the spokesman for the transitional forces in Abyan, Muhammad al-Naqib, who considered it "the Houthi-Brotherhood partnership to thwart the Riyadh agreement."
