Ansarullah: Yemen ’ISIL’ Bomb Attacks Another Saudi Strategy

Local Editor
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement said on Wednesday that the recent so-called "Daesh" ["ISIL"] bomb attacks in the country may be another strategy by Saudi Arabia’s regime to derail the intra-Yemeni peace talks.

A member of the Houthi delegation in the UN-backed talks on the Yemeni conflict, Ali al-Emad, said on Wednesday that, "Maybe Saudi Arabia started to use another strategy" to deal a blow to the ongoing negotiations between different Yemeni groups in Geneva in Switzerland.

We will certainly adopt necessary measures to deal with Saudi Arabia’s strategy, he stressed.

The remarks came hours after multiple bombings targeted three mosques in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, as well as the political office of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, leaving at least 31 people killed. The "Daesh" takfiri extremist group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Emad also touched upon the rising threat of al-Qaeda in Yemen, saying that there would be no all-out solution to the Yemeni crisis unless the menace of terrorist group is contained.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Emad also rejected reports that the number of Houthi representatives in the Geneva talks is turning into an obstacle on the way of peace negotiations, saying that all groups which oppose Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, have the right to be represented in the UN-sponsored intra-Yemeni dialogue.

Different political groups "came [to Geneva] because the UN asked them to come. They didn’t come by themselves," he noted, adding that it is their unalienable right to be part of the peace talks.

Additionally, Emad also welcomed the UN’s initiative for a humanitarian pause in Yemen in a bid to protect civilians against the US-led Saudi aggression.

The UN-backed peace talks aimed at finding a solution to the deadly conflict in Yemen will reportedly continue until Saturday.

This is while Saudi Arabia is still pushing ahead with its military aggression against Yemen.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression on Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansoaur Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.