Ansarullah Official: Plot to Attack Yemen’s Capital Has Failed
Local Editor
A senior member of the political bureau of the Houthi Ansarullah movement underlined that the plan of attack on the Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, has gotten nowhere.
"The plot to attack Sana’a is aimed at putting [Yemen’s] army and popular committees under pressure," Zeifollah al-Shami told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
He noted that all the media controversy about the attack is part of the psychological warfare of the enemy.
He emphasized that even if such a plot is carried out, it will be dealt with vigilantly and decisively by the Yemeni forces.
The London-based Asharq al-Awsat recently quoted sources as saying that certain Arab states in the Persian Gulf region are training Yemeni tribes to mount attacks on Sana’a.
A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out an aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March 26. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN].
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies, including the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, began the aggression in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The ’civilian’ death toll in Yemen has risen to at least 1,916, with another 4,186 civilians wounded since the escalation of the conflict in March, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [OHCHR] reported recently this month [August].
