Salem and Al-Mikhlafi .. A renewed struggle over the geography of Hujariah
English - Monday 24 May 2021 الساعة 10:12 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Al Hujariah's geography has turned into a new battleground between the two poles of influence in Taiz Governorate. Abdo Farhan "Salem", the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Sheikh Hammoud Al-Mikhlafi, who calls himself the leader of the popular resistance in Taiz.
While the conflicts appear as disagreements over land areas, as happened last week, and they have happened a lot since Sheikh Hammoud and Counselor Salem began to share Hijriya and spread their influence over their regions, this fighting was premised on the conflict of Salem and Al-Mikhlafi over Al Hujariah.
The plunder of lands and the struggle over state property from areas and lands and distributing them as spoils to buy the loyalties of warlords and leaders of groups was an approach followed by the Brotherhood leaders in Taiz, headed by Salem, who permitted the seizure of private and public property, and his eldest son was one of the leaders of land plundering as well.last
Al-Mikhlafi accuses Salem of liquidating a number of his followers in Al-Hujaria who were the first nucleus of Qatar's militias by fabricating charges and crimes for them and killing them as fugitives from justice, while Salem moves in the name of the state and affirms that he will not accept the authority of any component or group outside the control of the state.
Salem lost his strongest man in Al-Turbah, Abdo Numan Al-Zariqi, who was killed in the confrontations with the Houthi militia in the Al-Ahkum front the month before last, so that Al-Turbah became the capital of Al-Hajriya into a stronghold for the groups of Hamoud Al-Mikhlafi, especially after Salem conspired against the positions of the 35th Armored Brigade and moved it from Jabal Bayhan and another location to The headquarters of the brigade in Al-Ain, Al-Mawasit.
After the departure of the forces of the 35th Brigade, al-Mikhlafi’s groups remained in the soil. Al-Zariqi, with his forces affiliated with the Fourth Brigade, was a mountainous infantry, which was present in Al-Turbah. These groups are led by Osama al-Qardai, one of the leaders of the al-Mikhlafi militia
Al-Qaradi was the one who led the Brotherhood militia against the forces of the 35th Armored Brigade, and he was the one who started the war in the soil to evacuate it from the men of the martyr Adnan Al-Hammadi.
Al-Mikhlafi succeeded in attracting group leaders and local gang leaders. The 35th Armored Brigade was restricted from their movements, and some of them fled to the city of Taiz, as well as merging with them other groups of his militia in Yevres camp and members of the 170 Air Defense Brigade loyal to Sheikh Hammoud, while Salem was busy dismantling the 35 Armored Brigade And the replacement of forces, individuals and leaderships to those that worked with the martyr Commander Adnan Al-Hammadi.
Salem fights on many paths, the most important of which is his struggle with Sheikh Hamoud Al-Mikhlafi, as Salem recently got rid of field commanders and group leaders affiliated with Al-Mikhlafi who had been thrown into a closed front and some were liquidated with friendly fire, as happened with Talal Al-Dollar and others who were assassinated in Taiz, as It happened with Walid Al-Ragheef, Abu Al-Saduq, Al-Aqil, and most recently Hashem Al-San`ani, who was training groups affiliated with Sheikh Hammoud.
On another path, Salem works to break up the 35th Armored Brigade and domesticate it by planting new forces within the brigade loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood and reviving the former members of the brigade by enabling them to assume tasks and leadership positions and change the leaders of the battalions and fronts, as happened on the Al-Kadha and Al-Salu fronts and other fronts.
The game of the conflict in Al-Hujaria was not an emergency, but rather it was planned from the beginning, as Al-Mikhlafi was taken to the Al-Hujaria areas, and then the conflict was transferred to the theater of its operations after the conflict was raging in the city of Taiz with multiple aspects that made the scene scandalous for the Brotherhood as a military and security authority.
Salem seeks to get rid of the most prominent leaders of the groups that follow Sheikh Hammoud Al-Mikhlafi, and after that the militias that Al-Mikhlafi framed in military brigades are unable to contest Salem his influence inside Al-Hujaria due to the absence of the influential leading element.
The information indicates that Salem was able to plant his followers from field commanders and fighters within the Al-Mikhlafi militia to employ its infiltrations in favor of Salem's movements within and against these militias.
