The Brotherhood's fear of the "elite" reveals the fragility of their military grip on Shabwa
English - Saturday 30 October 2021 الساعة 11:13 am
Shabwa, NewsYemen, private:
Remarkably, the military leaders in Shabwa continue to appear with video recordings to testify to the betrayal of the three Baihan districts by the Brotherhood and its authority in the governorate by handing them over to the Houthi militia without a fight.
Testimonies have continued since the appearance of Brigadier General/ Ali Saleh Al-Kulaibi, the former commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade, who was stationed in Baihan, with a video recording, Thursday before last, in which he revealed that his dismissal from the brigade days before the fall of Bayhan came because of his rejection of the Brotherhood’s plan to hand it over.
Since Al-Kulaibi's appearance, he has followed on an almost daily basis, the appearance of a military commander from the army forces in Shabwa in a video recording that reinforces what Al-Kulaibi said and warns against the repetition of the scene of Bayhan and the expansion of the Houthi militia in Shabwa governorate.
The size of these recordings clearly reveals the weakness of the Brotherhood's grip on Shabwa governorate, which is embodied in the absence of Brotherhood ideological elements in the leadership ranks of the army and security establishment in the governorate and even its members.
Most of the elements and command of the military and security units in Shabwa are almost devoid of the Brotherhood component, and they are either loyal to the group for specific reasons or specific interests, or are subject to it to avoid conflict with the group's influence within the legitimacy.
This fact was realized by the Brotherhood early on, as soon as it took control of the governorate in August 2019, and sought to form a military and security arm that owes its absolute allegiance to it, and the talk here is about the special forces led by Brotherhood Brigadier General Abd Rabbo Laakb Al-Sharif.
Within a few months, the group poured all possible support to arm and strengthen the special forces with the latest crews and weapons to ensure their superiority, until they exceeded their nature as security forces and became more like a military brigade, with the aim of making them the striking force of the Brotherhood’s authority in Shabwa, and its tool to confront its opponents within the Shabwani community.
In parallel, the group also realizes that its control of Shabwa in August 2019 was not the result of its defeat of the Shabwani Elite Forces in the Ataq battle, but rather came due to orders from the Saudi leadership in Shabwa for the elite to stop fighting and withdraw from Ataq towards the coalition camps in Al-Alam and Balhaf to make its efforts to stop The fight between legitimacy and the transitional, according to what activists later quoted from the leader of the elite, Muhammad Salem al-Bohar.
The elite’s commitment to Saudi orders at that time tempted the Muslim Brotherhood’s crowds coming from Ma’rib to sweep Shabwa and Abyan and reach the Al-Alam point, the eastern entrance to Aden, for the coalition to intervene and end that, leading to the signing of the Riyadh Agreement, which stipulated in its security and military annex the return of all forces that moved before August 2019 to positions Its previous concentration, which means the return of the Shabwani elite’s concentration on the governorate’s directorates, and what prompts the Brotherhood to obstruct the implementation of the agreement until today.
In this context, the reason behind the Brotherhood escalation in the Balhaf case was not the UAE presence, but in fact was a desire to get rid of the Shabwani Elite Forces that have gathered there since the August events by order of the coalition, awaiting the implementation of the Riyadh Agreement and their return to their previous positions, which is what drives the Brotherhood crazy. .
This explains currently the crowds of Brotherhood militias and their encirclement of the Al-Alam camp in Jardan district despite the departure of the Emirati forces from it, as the militias insist on expelling the Shabwani elite elements from inside and seizing their equipment, as a first step before heading towards Balhaf to repeat the scene, as stated by the advisor to the Brotherhood’s governor, Muhammad bin Adyo to one of the Brotherhood's channels.
This reflects the extent of the Brotherhood's panic over any presence of the Shabwa Elite Forces, and confirms the fact that its battle is with Shabwa and its forces, including the elite, and not with the Houthi militia, which handed over three districts to it in late September.
