The arms of terrorism and Houthi looting in Hodeidah
English - Thursday 31 March 2022 الساعة 05:53 pm
Hodeidah, NewsYemen, a special report:
Since the Houthi terrorist militia invaded Hodeidah Governorate, after extending its control over Sanaa in 2014, the militia loyal to Iran has worked to assume its elements for many important positions, through which it ensures the achievement of its interests, and the implementation of the agenda of its supporters in Tehran due to the strategic importance of Hodeidah Governorate on the Red Sea . Many terrorist Houthi leaders emerged in Hodeidah, which practiced terrorism, looting, killing and abuse in this peaceful, poorest and most miserable province.
Abu Hussein Al Madani
Youssef Ahsan Ismail Al-Madani "Abu Hussein", one of the prominent military leaders in the terrorist Houthi militia, and founder of the military wing of the Iranian-backed militia, was appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Supreme Security Committee, then Chairman of the Committee at the rank of major general, succeeding his dead brother "Taha Al-Madani" who was liquidated in mysterious circumstances and the announcement of his death was postponed for nearly a year and a half.
Al-Madani is currently the commander of the "Fifth Military Region", which includes the governorates of (Hodeidah, Hajjah, Al-Mahwit, and Raymah), and includes a military theater that extends from Midi on the Saudi borders, passing through Hodeidah, and up to the heights overlooking Bab al-Mandab and Mocha, west of Taiz governorate.
Al-Madani is the field commander of the Houthi militia on the western coast, and all the militia’s camps in Hodeidah are under his command. He is one of the first leaders of the Houthi group, who received early military training at the hands of experts from the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah militias in Iran and southern Lebanon.
"Al-Madani" enjoys great confidence in the leaders of the Revolutionary Guards and the Iranian intelligence, and was associated with the dead former Quds Force commander "Qassem Soleimani" and was his arm in the battle of the Red Sea, and in facilitating the entry of many military elements from the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah to Hodeidah, to train the Houthi militia, and manage operations Naval and land military operations, smuggling of weapons and equipment, establishing workshops to install weapons and booby-trapping boats, planting naval mines, and managing attacks in the Red Sea.
The UN Security Council included the name of the terrorist "Youssef Al-Madani" in the list of sanctions, as well as the US State Department on the list of terrorism, and the Arab coalition places him in the 8th place among the list of 40 Houthi terrorists.
Abu Ali Al-Kahlani
Hadi Muhammad al-Kahlani "Abu Ali al-Kahlani", was the bodyguard of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, and the militia appointed him a military official in the Hodeidah governorate, as a result of the killing of dozens of prominent leaders of the militia in confrontations with the joint forces on the western coast and he survived an Arab coalition raid in September 2018, targeting the headquarters of a meeting held by militia leaders in the 7th of July neighborhood in the city of Hodeidah.
"Al-Kahlani" holds the position of director of security in Hodeidah Governorate, and the militia granted him the rank of brigadier general, although he did not attend any military or security college.
The militia granted "Hadi al-Kahlani" wide civil and military powers in Hodeidah, where the al-Kahlani family enjoys a special status in the Houthi group as a dynastic family, which helped the militia in its coup against the state.
Abu Ali al-Kahlani's record in Hodeidah is full of criminality, including torture, arrest, and killing of the province's residents, bombing houses and burning dozens of farms. The Arab coalition places him 39th in the list of 40 Houthi terrorists.
Abu Ahmed Al Hadi
Mutahhar Yahya Hussein Al-Hadi "Abu Ahmed", holds the position of Undersecretary of Al-Hodeidah Governorate for Military Affairs, and he is the military supervisor of the Houthi militia in the southern square in the governorate, and supervises the militia's camps in the areas (Al-Jarrahi, Zabid, Beit Al-Faqih, and Al-Hussainiya).
The militia had previously appointed him as head of the Agricultural and Fisheries Committee, then head of the Mobilization and Recruitment Committee in Hodeidah. He is also accused of storming many homes, and arresting and liquidating a number of citizens, after the joint forces evacuated the areas covered by the Sweden agreement. Where, in November 2021, he stormed the house of the citizen "Fahd Musayyib" in the center of the Al-Tuhaita District, south of Al-Hodeidah, and liquidated him in front of his wife and children, and his escorts shot two of the dead's relatives, seriously wounding them.
Abu Sajjad Al Saadi
Mansour Ahmed Al-Saadi "Abu Sajjad", currently holds the position of Chief of Staff of the Naval Forces and Coastal Defense of the Houthi Militia in Hodeidah, and he previously worked with the Houthi leader "Naif Abu Kharfasha", who was appointed military supervisor of the Hodeidah governorate, after the invasion of the governorate, days after the fall of Sanaa late 2014.
After that, Al-Saadi, commissioned by the militia, took over the dismantling of the Navy and the Coastal Defense Forces. He led campaigns of kidnappings, repression and brutal abuse against the commanders and officers of the Navy, and students of the Naval College until he tightened his grip on all the joints of this force, so that the militia rewarded him by appointing him at the head of the Naval Forces and Coastal Defense.
After his appointment to the position of Chief of Staff of the Militia’s Naval Forces, “Al-Saadi” supervised the smuggling of Iranian weapons, and parts of drones, through the “Hodeidah Port” and “Al-Salif” and “Al-Luha” ports, using fishermen’s boats carrying weapons shipments from the depth of the sea , of Iranian ships, the most famous of which are "Saviz" and "Behshad".
Al-Saadi and his militias also randomly planted Iranian-made naval mines in the territorial waters and vital ports. Under direct Iranian direction, he conducted dozens of attacks against cargo ships, and led piracy operations, the most recent of which was the piracy and hijacking of the commercial cargo ship “Rawabi.”
"Al-Saadi" is a member of the Houthi militia team, in the "Redeployment Committee in Hodeidah", which is chaired by the United Nations under the Stockholm Agreement, and he carried out a fake withdrawal, and dressed his forces in the clothes of security men.
The US administration included the name "Mansour Al-Saadi" in the sanctions list, as he is responsible for the Houthi naval militias, and the mastermind of the naval attacks. The Yemeni judiciary, Al-Saadi, is being tried on charges of overthrowing legitimacy and establishing an armed terrorist entity with the support of Iran and the terrorist Hezbollah, which is wanted No. 98 in List of wanted persons to eliminate the impersonation of the staff of the naval forces war.
Abu Younis al-Jarmuzy
Abdul-Jabbar Ahmed Muhammad al-Jarmuzy "Abu Younes", works with the support of the leader, "Muhammad Ali al-Houthi" to loot the resources of the Hodeidah governorate, and holds the position of the governorate's undersecretary for financial affairs, supervising the conduct of tenders, and subcontracting the implementation of contracting and projects for the governorate, to drain and loot money. Before that, he headed a committee to collect levies in the governorate to support the militia fronts.
Al-Jarmoozi seizes 40 million riyals per month from the Central Bank branch in Hodeidah, from the Electricity Emergency Fund account designated to meet the needs of service institutions for electric power, as he loots the sums with personal exchange transfers, and with the complicity of Muhammad Ayyash Qahim, appointed by the militia as governor of the governorate, according to informed sources.
The sources say that the revenues of the Emergency Electricity Fund come through the financial sums that are imposed by the militia on every liter of oil and a customs parcel that arrives through the ports of Hodeidah and Salif, and the fund’s balance amounted to 12 billion riyals, but the militia stopped buying diesel, the matter Which caused the interruption of electrical power to medical facilities in the city of Hodeidah, and the death of dozens of patients with kidney failure, as the militia withdraws the amounts from the fund’s account in cash from the central bank branch, and deposits them in special accounts in some commercial banks.
