Qatar..Iran's partner in sponsoring terrorist groups in Yemen
English - Sunday 06 February 2022 الساعة 10:01 am
Aden, NewsYemen, Jalal Muhammad:
From an early age, Qatar has played a subversive role in Yemen. Its roots go back to 2004, when the Houthi rebellion in the mountains of Saada Governorate (north), led by the founder of the Houthi militia, Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, began.
The Qatari role increased, in the midst of the Yemeni army’s campaign, to quell the rebellion in the stronghold of the Houthi militia, and the killing of the latter’s leader, Hussein al-Houthi, as Doha intervened - at the time - to save the Houthis under the cover of mediation with the aim of giving the group a chance to catch its breath and launch a new war against the Yemeni state.
Although the Yemeni authorities were closer to completely burying the seed of the rebellion, the former Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa, intervened, and his main goal at the time was to save what was left of the Houthis. The last Houthi stronghold north of Saada governorate, where their current leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, was located, in exchange for the brother of the movement's founder, Yahya, his father, Badr al-Din al-Houthi, and his uncle, Abdul Karim, to reside temporarily in Doha, and Qatar to pay aid, compensation and reconstruction.
Since then and until today, Doha has played an inciting role, and its media arm has become the Al-Jazeera channel more like a war media spokesman for the militia. Al-Jazeera has worked hard from an early age to target national figures opposed to the Qatari scheme, led by the former Yemeni president and martyr Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the entire country. Yemen came until the opportunity that Qatar and the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood came up with in February 2011 for Al Jazeera to start another method of incitement, fabrication and outbidding about what happened and is happening in Yemen. In late September 2014, from there to Hodeidah, Taiz and the cities of the south, before the Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened to thwart the Qatari-Iranian plot.
The Qatari role in Yemen and its hostility to the UAE
After the Houthi coup against the state in Yemen, and the announcement by a group of Arab countries of the establishment of a military and political alliance that supports and supports Yemeni legitimacy and responds to the provocations and the absurd war ignited by the Houthi militia in Yemen and its insistence on turning Yemen into an Iranian estate and a poisoned Khomeini dagger in the side of the Arab nation, and among those The countries "the State of Qatar", which entered the coalition in a double way, aim first to thwart the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, and to preserve its arms in Yemen represented by the Muslim Brotherhood groups in the first place and the Houthi group as a strategic ally that achieves the goal of Qatari hatred against Saudi Arabia in particular.
During that period, the relationship between the Houthis and the Qatari government continued in secret, until the Qatari army was expelled from the coalition after proving its suspicious relationship with the militias. The Qatari government directly opened the headquarters of Al Jazeera channel in the capital, Sanaa, and restarted the Qatar National Bank, and the Qatar Charity Foundation, which operates Ostensibly for charitable work, but it funds the Houthis in Yemen with weapons, while the Yemeni authorities seized Qatari weapons in Hadramawt and Shabwa.
Qatar was not satisfied with its malicious role in supporting terrorism, the Houthi militias, and Al-Qaeda only. It continued to support every sabotage in Yemen. Information and facts have proven that the unrest in Al-Mahra Governorate was fully funded by some personalities residing in Doha, as well as Al-Qaeda. Qatar Charity, before Doha was expelled from the coalition, carried out suspicious relief activity in an area controlled by Al-Qaeda, which raised suspicions because Qatar provided support and relief in areas controlled by this organization.
Rather, Qatar’s role extended to be a spy and a dagger in the back of its Arab brothers who went to Yemen with the best of their youth to defend it and protect it from falling into the hands of the Persians, as many reports indicated that Qatar provided the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization with information that enabled it to carry out suicide attacks against Emirati forces within the Arab coalition. Yemen, which led to casualties among the Emirati forces.
At the time, one of the Emirati diplomats indicated that his country had audio and video evidence of Doha helping Al-Qaeda by transmitting information about the readiness of the Emirati forces for a security operation. Al-Qaeda was informed of the location and plans of the Emirati forces, so 4 suicide bombers arrived and blew themselves up targeting the UAE forces.
Over the past weeks, Al Jazeera has turned into a "Houthi trumpet" par excellence, and everyone has noticed the full coverage that this suspicious channel has made of the Houthi terrorist attacks on the UAE, and its haste to announce and adopt the hashtag "The UAE is no longer safe" through Doha's media arms and tools, and activists in Yemen represented by its followers. The Islah party and the Houthi group, and those who follow the course of the programs and coverage broadcast by the channel and the guests it hosts find that Qatar is adopting a systematic media and political campaign against the UAE, and even through Al Jazeera has worked to incite the Houthis to launch more Houthi terrorist attacks on various Emirati sites.
Qatari movement to save the Houthis
In conjunction with the Houthi attacks on Abu Dhabi, there was a global condemnation of these terrorist acts, and many Western decision-making circles began to move towards the need to review their decisions towards the Houthis, who deservedly to be reclassified as a terrorist group, and in the midst of this international movement, Qatar launched a counter campaign Beginning with the visit of its foreign minister to Tehran and his discussion of the so-called de-escalation file and the need to reach a political solution in Yemen, as well as the call for what they called the need to bring aid to the Yemeni people, which is the lever that Tehran and the Houthis exploit (the difficult humanitarian situation) that Yemenis live in.
Then the ruler of Qatar went to Washington to hold talks with his American counterpart Joe Biden, "who is close to the Brotherhood and their plan to destroy the Arab nation." On top of what was discussed, along with the gas supply file to Europe, is the Yemeni file, especially Qatar's opposition to classifying the Houthis as a terrorist group. There is no doubt that the desperate Qatari defense of the Houthi group is proceeding according to what is planned between Doha and Tehran, as this rogue group represents the advanced line and their first military arm against Saudi Arabia in the first place.
As a summary of all that Qatar is doing, without Doha's financial and political support, the Houthi rebellion in Yemen today would have been just a folded page of contemporary Yemeni history. However, Qatar’s standing by the Houthis and its logistical and financial support due to its ideological or ideological rapprochement with them was not, but rather to defy Saudi Arabia on the one hand and implement the directions of the Iranian ally by supporting its military wing in Yemen, on the other hand, among the accumulated files of practices of Qatar’s foreign policy that contributed to Destruction of Arab countries and societies.
